{{Short description|Bahraini political cartoonist (born 1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{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.<ref name="nowthenmagazine">{{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 |archive-date=22 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322204131/https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/sara-qaed-political-cartoonist-for-the-modern-age |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="derstandard">{{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 |archive-date=22 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322204130/https://www.derstandard.de/consent/tcf/story/2000134154222/sara-qaed-karikaturen-zur-pandemie |url-status=live }}</ref> She studied interior design and fine arts at the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Education in Bahrain.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== Career == Quad began publishing cartoons in 2009. Her political caricatures focus on the oppression of women, refugees, religious violence, corruption, power and war.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sara Qaed |url=https://thenewbridgeproject.com/artist/sara-qaed/ |archive-url=https://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 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{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 |archive-date=22 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322204130/https://www.thenation.com/authors/sara-qaed/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="deutschlandfunkkultur">{{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}}</ref> In 2010, she worked as a cartoonist for a local weekly newspaper and also worked illustrating children's stories for ''Anas Magazine''.<ref name="youtube">{{Cite AV media|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}}</ref> Between 2012 and 2014 she taught art at the School of International Dialogue.<ref name="youtube"/>
Qaed moved to Europe and ran a work space in Berlin.<ref name="deutschlandfunkkultur"/> She currently lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.<ref name="derstandard"/><ref>{{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 |archive-date=22 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322204131/https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinateurs/sara-qaed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="nowthenmagazine"/> She was also one of the artists in residence with HelixArts.<ref name="nowthenmagazine"/>
Her works have exhibited at the Bahrain National Museum;<ref name="youtube"/> at the Al-Riwaq Gallery in Bahrain;<ref name="toshfesh">{{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 |archive-date=23 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250323232603/https://toshfesh.com/articleSlider.php?id=242&catId=2 |url-status=live }}</ref> in Gaza, Palestine;<ref name="youtube"/> at the Stripdagen Harleem Festival in the Netherlands;<ref name="youtube"/> and at the Arab Caricature Festival at the Cultuurhuis de Warrande in Belgium.<ref name="toshfesh"/> She has been featured in the ''Huffington Post'' and in the London-based ''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed'' newspaper.<ref name="toshfesh"/>
In 2023, Qaed participated in a fundraiser exhibition at Lok Virsa Museum in Islamabad, Pakistan, in support of Palestinian families.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 2023 |title=Lok Virsa to host fundraiser exhibition for Palestine's victims on Saturday |url=https://www.radio.gov.pk/25-10-2023/lok-virsa-to-host-fundraiser-exhibition-for-palestines-victims-on-saturday |work=Radio Pakistan}}</ref>
== Awards == In 2019, Qaed was awarded the IIbn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.<ref name="deutschlandfunkkultur"/><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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