Entitled The Protector of Casablanca, she sees this figure as an attempt to fight against daily harassment on the street. One of her well-known images is a nude, all green figure of herself keeping watch over Casablanca. Many of Fasiki's illustrations are self-portraits, often in the nude, inspired by women in the traditional Moroccan hammam or painted as comic characters like Wonder Woman. Apart from working freelance, she is also the founder of the collective group "Women Power" that sponsored twenty women to take part in workshops about women's rights. Her work, which she publishes on social media and as graphic novels, criticizes censorship, taboos and notions of shame in Morocco. Through the characters of three young Moroccan women, she denounced the social inequalities between men and women. Fasiki joined the comic book collective Skefkef, and in 2017 published a first feminist comic strip, called Omor (Things), in which she explored the difficulties of a woman's life in Morocco. In 2014, she moved to Casablanca, where she has lived since. She became internationally known after 2019, following her graphic novel Hshouma, corps et sexualité au Maroc which was translated from French into Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, Galician and Italian.īorn and raised in the city of Fez, she started drawing when she was four years old. Zainab Fasiki ( Arabic: زينب فاسيكي born July 21, 1994) is a Moroccan graphic artist, activist for women's rights and mechanical engineer by training.
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