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Riham El-Hour (Arabic: ريهام الحر, born March 8, 1977[1]) is a Moroccan cartoonist who was the first woman to join the Union of Moroccan Professional Caricaturists. She uses her cartoons to advocate for women's rights and against male guardianship laws[2] and was named one of BBC's 100 women of 2016.[3]
Early life and education
She studied Arabic literature at the Faculty of Letters in Kenitra, Morocco. In 2000, she won a competition organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the protection of cultural heritage.[4] She published in the Moroccan newspapers Al Alam, Al Mintaka, the women's press Citadines and Likoli Nissae, and in the Casablanca newspaper Rissalat Al Ouma.[5]
Work
In 2000 El-Hour won UNESCO's Palestine Prize in an international competition. Two years later, she participated in the national days of Moroccan caricature, as the first woman caricaturist of Morocco. She received a prize at the caricatures exhibitions in Damascus, Syria in 2005/2006 and in the following year, she represented Morocco at the Santomera exhibition in Spain.[6]
Her first drawings were published in Al Alam, a Moroccan Arabic language newspaper, and in Al Mintaka, a local Kenitra newspaper. She also drew for the women's magazine Citadines. [7] Starting 2006 she worked for different national and international newspapers[8] and from October 2011 she started to work with the Arabic version of Likolli Nissae and later she went to work for Rissalat Al Ouma, a Casablanca newspaper.[7]