Sherine Hamdy is a medical anthropologist who teaches courses on comics, Middle East culture, and literary anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Our Bodies Belong to God and co-creator of the graphic novel Lissa. She co-edits ethnoGRAPHIC, an academic series that publishes works integrating ethnography and comics for the University of Toronto Press. Born in New York to Egyptian parents, she grew in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Bamako, Mali; and Mexico City, Mexico. She currently lives in Irvine, CA, with her husband and two daughters.
Sherine Hamdy | Landing in Place: A Graphic Novel
Event Time Thursday, November 12, 2026
Event Location
Frankford Library
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