amany Al-ali

Amany Al-Ali, the first female cartoonist in Idlib, Syria, draws the life of her town, a bastion of jihadist groups that are attempting to overthrow President Assad since 2011. Armed with her pen, she is struggling against Islamist authority and traditional patriarchy. In her father's house she organizes drawing lessons for women and girls. Through drawing, these classes cover a whole range of subjects that are part of their world, including war and international indifference about it, and life as women within a traditional patriarchal order. But for how much longer will she have the strength to keep fighting, among the ruins of her town.