Beyond the 28-year-old Egyptian comic artist Deena Mohamed’s compassionate meditations on the elusiveness of happiness in her début graphic novel, “Shubeik Lubeik,” she is most preoccupied with structural injustices. Read yasminealsayyad’s full review:
Aziza is in mourning. Her husband, a close childhood friend and an early love, has just died, and she’s been feeling terribly alone. Shy and unassertive, she’s often been overlooked by others and kept to herself. Her heart has been broken before—she lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young—but she fears her husband’s death has made her unhappiness irreversible.
Fraudulence and brutality, Mohamed seems to say, are mightier than magic. Aziza’s case is taken up by the Wishes for All Foundation, an organization that fights for equal access to wishes. The organization’s founder, Dr. Nadia, visits Aziza in prison and explains that “a lot of people have had their wishes confiscated. In most cases, it’s working-class folks, pressured to transfer ownership of the wish to the government.
Unlike Aziza and Shokry, Nour lives a life of splendid comfort. Mohamed draws a savage contrast between Nour’s prosperous, secluded compound, fitted with magical amenities like an anti-drowning pool, and Aziza’s crummy neighborhood, where third-class wishes that backfire can leave people mutilated. Nour studies at a ritzy international university, where she majors in Wishful Thinking and Philosophies and idles in cafés, gossiping in bilingual upper-crust Gen Z slang.
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