Deena Mohamed is an illustrator and graphic designer who started drawing comics at the age of 18. Her satirical web comic about a visibly Muslim superheroine, Qahera, dealt with social issues and went viral, attracting the attention of media outlets such as the BBC, the Times, Foreign Policy and others. Her debut graphic novel, Shubeik Lubeik, is an urban fantasy set in an alternative Cairo that explores a world where wishes can be bought and sold. The novel won the Best Graphic Novel and Grand Prize at the Cairo Comix Festival (2017) and was published by Dar el Mahrousa in 2018. The second volume of Shubeik Lubeik was published in Arabic in 2019, and the final part of the trilogy was published in Arabic in 2021. An English translation of all three books has been acquired by Pantheon, an imprint of Penguin Random House (USA) and Granta (UK) and was published in the beginning of 2023.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions around the world and she has collaborated with local and international clients such as Viacom, Harrasmap, Mada Masr and Google. In 2017, she was featured by the Washington Post as one of "five women changing the world for the better" to mark International Women's Day. Most recently, she was featured in the Arte documentary 2021 about Arab women comic artists "crayon au poing".

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