Harissa Nation by Noha Habaieb
Noha Habaieb is a Tunisian French visual storyteller.
She is working between Doha and Tunis.
After studying comics in Belgium, she returned to Tunisia where she co-founded the Lab619, an award-winning comics collective.
The Lab619 published its first comics magazine for adults in Tunisia in 2013.
Noha took part in the evolution of the magazine by participating with her original comics, organizing artistic residencies themed around migration, identity and borders and improving the coordination between the group members.
She co-founded “Koshk Glibett”, an illustration studio based in Tunisia, which aims to promote Tunisian heritage through illustrations for children and adults.
In 2022 she was part of the jury members of The Mahmoud Kahil Award which aims to promote comics, editorial cartoons and illustration in the Arab world as well as the jury of The Sharjah Children’s Book Illustration.
She contributed to several international collective exhibitions of Comics and Illustrations.
Villa Albertine a New York based magazine contacted Noha, among other Arab artists, to talk about their countries’ cultures to make a two-page comic strip on something cultural in Tunis, She chose the love of Tunisians for harissa, “harissa brings us together, it runs in our veins” – Noha
The artist believes that she will develop the project into a longer format due to the positive feedback.
