Zainab Fasiki

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Zainab Fasiki is a comics artist, mechanical engineer and activist for women’s rights. She was interested in drawing and robotics from the age of 5. She obtained the Diploma of Superior Technician in Mechanics in 2014, ranked first in this field in her country. She continued at the National Higher School of Electricity and Mechanics of Casablanca, from which she graduated as a State Engineer in Mechanics in 2017. She began to draw comics at 16 years old thanks to her graphic tablet and her computer. Because of the sexist discrimination that reigns in the field of mechanics, but also harassment in the street, Fasiki finds in drawing her way out: she draws herself naked and shares it with Internet users to prove to everyone that she will live as she wishes. After collaborating on several artistic projects, she decided to devote herself to her career as an artist. She created the Women Power collective which encourages Moroccan women artists via workshops. She also created her project and book Hshouma, which aims to break taboos in Morocco and especially to change the way of seeing nudity and women. In 2018, on November 29, Fasiki was honored by Amnesty International on the International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders in Rabat, Morocco.