Sara Qaed

{{Infobox artist

| website = https://www.saraqaed.com/

| birth_date = 1990

| birth_place = Bahrain

| awards = Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought

| style = political cartoonist

}}

Sara Qaed ({{Langx|ar|سارة قائد|Sārah Qāʼid}}; born 1990) is a Bahraini political cartoonist. She was awarded the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2019.

Early life

Qaed was born in Bahrain in 1990.{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Felicity |date=22 March 2021 |title=Sara Qaed - Political cartoonist for the modern age |url=https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sara-qaed-political-cartoonist-for-the-modern-age |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Now Then Sheffield |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Aumüller |first=Sascha |title=Sara Qaed: Karikaturen zur Pandemie |url=https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/2000134154222/sara-qaed-karikaturen-zur-pandemie |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=DER STANDARD |language=de-AT}} She studied interior design and fine arts at the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Education in Bahrain.{{Cite web |last=NDR |date=11 April 2022 |title=Cartoons und Hijab |url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/sendungen/freitagsforum/Cartoons-und-Hijab,freitagsforum764.html |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=NDR |language=de}}

Career

Quad began publishing cartoons in 2009. Her political caricatures focus on the oppression of women, refugees, religious violence, corruption, power and war.{{Cite web |title=Sara Qaed |url=https://thenewbridgeproject.com/artist/sara-qaed/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220522140909/https://thenewbridgeproject.com/artist/sara-qaed/ |archive-date=22 May 2022 |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=The New Bridge Project}}{{Cite web |date=8 July 2021 |title=Sara Qaed |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/sara-qaed/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=von Hillauer |first=Rebecca |date=10 July 2019 |title=Karikaturistin Sara Qaed - "Ich halte das Zeichnen für eine großartige Sprache" |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/karikaturistin-sara-qaed-ich-halte-das-zeichnen-fuer-eine-100.html |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}} In 2010, she worked as a cartoonist for a local weekly newspaper and also worked illustrating children's stories for Anas Magazine.{{Cite AV|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0P_xUASJY|title=In the name of god - Sara Qaed|date=7 March 2015|last=Universal Tolerance|access-date=22 March 2025|via=YouTube|website=youtube.com}} Between 2012 and 2014 she taught art at the School of International Dialogue.

Qaed moved to Europe and ran a work space in Berlin. She currently lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.{{Cite web |date=22 October 2020 |title=SARA QAED |url=https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinateurs/sara-qaed/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Cartooning for Peace |language=fr}} In 2021, Qaed collaborated with the worldwide Universal Basic Income Lab Network to create a series of four illustrations for a project called Freeing Your Feet. She was also one of the artists in residence with HelixArts.

Her works have exhibited at the Bahrain National Museum; at the Al-Riwaq Gallery in Bahrain;{{Cite web |title=Sara Qaed / سارة قائد |url=https://www.toshfesh.com/articleSlider.php?id=242&catId=2 |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Toshfesh}} in Gaza, Palestine; at the Stripdagen Harleem Festival in the Netherlands; and at the Arab Caricature Festival at the Cultuurhuis de Warrande in Belgium. She has been featured in the Huffington Post and in the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper.

Awards

In 2019, Qaed was awarded the IIbn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.{{Cite web |last=Bushnaq |first=Abdalla |date=5 July 2019 |title=Laudatio: Omézine Ben Chikha |url=https://ibn-rushd.net/wp/de/2019/07/05/award-2019-laudatio/ |access-date=22 March 2025 |website=Ibn Rushd Fund Website |language=de-DE}}

References

Category:1990 births

Category:Bahraini artists

Category:Living people