Cairo…Downstairs

Ahmed Hossam El-Din is an independent comic artist, illustrator and urban sketcher who was born in Cairo, Egypt 1990. Starting working as a comic artist in 2012, he drew for some Egyptian magazines (Garage, Combo). Hossam has participated in numerous exhibitions inside and outside Egypt. He is interested in researching the comic scene in Egypt and arab countries, he gave a talk about that at the Fumetto comic festival 2018. Most of his work provokes and holds a mirror up to the society and political issues. Hossam has been the artistic director of Egypt Comix Week for four years.