=20 November 2024 =

Zakia Rashad as President of Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival

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Zakia Rashad as President of Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival

Abdallah El Sawy, founder and director of the Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival, has announced the selection of Zakia Rashad as the president of the second edition of the Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival, which will be held in Damanhour, Beheira Governorate, from 5 February to 13 March, with the participation of more than 150 cartoonists from around the world.

El Sawy pointed out that Zakia Rashad was selected by the Board of Trustees of the Abdullah El Sawy Foundation for the Preservation of Egyptian Cartooning Heritage - the organiser of the festival - in recognition of her contribution to public work in general and Bahraini women's issues in particular, over more than four decades, as she held many positions within the governorate of Beheira including: Member of the Regional Population Council, Member of the Regional Literacy Council, Member of the Higher Committee for Urban Planning, Member of the Board of Directors of a number of NGOs, Rapporteur of the Committee for Facilitating Economic Empowerment Programmes for Dependent Women, Secretary General of Damanhour University. She is currently serving as the Rapporteur of the National Council for Women in Beheira.

For her part, Zakia Rashad expressed her happiness and thanks to the Abdallah El Sawy Foundation for Preserving the Heritage of Egyptian Caricature for their trust in her, and for the distinguished activities and events provided by the Foundation since its establishment with the aim of preserving the heritage of Egyptian caricature and correctly defining the history of its early pioneers, through holding many exhibitions, international competitions and initiatives, throughout the year inside and outside Egypt.

Zakia Rashad explained that she followed the first edition of the festival last year and a number of other activities held by the Foundation in Damanhour, with great interest, given the great role that the art of caricature can play in shedding light and trying to address various Egyptian women's issues, in a satirical manner and in brief and simple lines, making it the art closest to intellectuals and simple people alike, as they say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Zakia Rashad stressed the great importance of the Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival, being the only international festival in Egypt and the Middle East concerned primarily and lastly with discussing women's issues through the art of caricature, and that she will work hard during the coming period in cooperation with the organiser and the Supreme Committee of the festival, the Beheira Governorate, the National Council for Women, and a number of partners inside and outside Beheira Governorate, to bring out the second edition of the festival in the best possible image, befitting the leadership of Egypt and its long history in the field of caricature, and the name of Damanhour city and the Beheira Governorate.

The Damanhour International Women's Caricature Festival is the first festival of its kind in Egypt and the Middle East concerned with women's issues, founded by Abdallah El Sawy, a researcher and writer specialised in the history of Egyptian caricature, and organised by the Abdallah El Sawy Foundation to preserve the heritage of Egyptian caricature. Its first edition was held in Damanhour in March last year, with the participation of 150 cartoonists from 50 countries around the world, and France was the guest of honor of the first edition of the festival, and the famous French cartoonist was honored: Trax, under the patronage and presence of Dr Nehal Balbaa, former Deputy Governor of Beheira.

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