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I’m here and I can change some things.” That defiance characterizes much of the work in Fasiki’s new graphic novel, _Hshouma,_ published in French and Arabic editions in September. The book, whose title roughly translates as “shame,” pairs the artist’s playful illustrations with discussions of sexuality, gender-based violence and censorship. “I want every Moroccan to read it because we have nothing on these topics at school or at home,” she says. “It’s a kind of guidebook.”  © Maddie McGarvey 2019 When Fasiki first left her conservative hometown of Fez for college in the coastal city of Casablanca, she thought life would get easier. But catcalling was a daily challenge, and for the handful of female students in the same mechanical-engineering degree program as Fasiki, bullying was common. After a man tried to snatch her bag in the city center last year, Fasiki, who has been drawing since the age of 4, was inspired to publish many of the illustrations she had kept private—some featuring nude women. Fasiki’s conservative critics say her images are degrading. But she wants to draw attention to society’s obsession with how women present themselves. “I’m trying to say you can see a naked woman and you can find it normal. It has nothing to do with sex. It’s just a body.” Fasiki has started several projects to raise awareness about gender discrimination in Morocco. An October 2018 collaboration with the U.N. Refugee Agency animates the journey of four refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa, including a woman subjected to female genital mutilation. A mentorship program she launched in early 2018 helps prepare 20 female artists each month to navigate exploitation in Morocco’s art industry, which Fasiki says she encountered at the beginning of her career. Inspired by Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi and French-Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, Fasiki is also countering Western narratives that portray the Middle East as either hypersexual or repressed . “Everyone wants you to be a certain way,” she says. “I love proving them wrong.” Zainab Fasiki's Comic Books Fight Gender Discrimination ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5692973/zainab-fasiki-next-generation-leaders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5692973/zainab-fasiki-next-generation-leaders/"},"headline":"How This Moroccan Artist Is Using Comic Books to Fight Sexism","datePublished":"2019-10-10T10:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:32:57.915Z","description":"Here's how the artist is using defiant illustrations to provoke discussions of gender inequality, violence and censorship in Morocco.","url":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5692973/zainab-fasiki-next-generation-leaders/","keywords":["NGL Articles topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fbe3f8652a9b4f2/698a03f122fb8541a1e29f2a/f_ngl_zainabfasiki.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"creator":"Joseph Hincks","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fbe3f8652a9b4f2/698a03f122fb8541a1e29f2a/f_ngl_zainabfasiki.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/5692973/zainab-fasiki-next-generation-leaders/","name":"How This Moroccan Artist Is Using Comic Books to Fight Sexism"}}]}] ```