Marguerite Dabaie is a Palestinian-American illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.[1][2][3]

Marguerite Dabaie
OccupationIllustrator
Websitewww.mdabaie.com

Biography & career

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Dabaie is a freelance illustrator and has worked with publications such as the Nib, the Believer, Abrams, and Viking Penguin. They are also an editor for the A.M. Qattan Foundation and Birzeit University, as well as an editor, writer, and cultural consultant for the tabletop RPG Blackbirds.[4][5][6][7]

Dabaie also wrote and drew the graphic novel The Hookah Girl, a semi-autobiographical work about Dabaie's childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America. Told in short stories, the novel is an account of living in two seemingly different yet similar cultures.[8]

Dabaie regularly publishes different graphic comics under the banner of their Legends in the Heights series.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Marguerite Dabaie". The Nib. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-19.
  2. ^ "Does genomics know if you're Palestinian? A cautionary tale about genetic databases and ancestry testing". ABC Radio National. 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  3. ^ "A Conversation With Marguerite Dabaie – Baladi". baladimagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  4. ^ Spivack, Caroline (2017-07-03). "Zine queen: Cartoonist preps for small press festival • Brooklyn Paper". www.brooklynpaper.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  5. ^ Dabaie, Marguerite (2017-12-13). "Trump's Jerk Move on Jerusalem: People Already Dying". The Nib. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  6. ^ "Marguerite Dabaie". Believer Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  7. ^ "Marguerite Dabaie - Palestine Writes". 2022-11-29. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  8. ^ "On Marguerite Dabaie's Graphic Memoir of Growing Up Palestinian in the US, PopMatters". PopMatters. 2018-06-22. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  9. ^ "Today on Legends in the Heights - Comics by Marguerite Dabaie - GoComics". www.gocomics.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27.