Q & A with Sherine Hamdy
Q & A with Sherine Hamdy
- May 19, 2026
- Sherine Hamdy, UCI anthropologist and author of Landing in Place, shares her new book with Publishers Weekly’s Amanda Ramirez
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Author and educator Sherine Hamdy teams up with illustrator Myra El Mir on their YA graphic novel, Landing in Place. In the book, Egyptian American college student Anisa struggles to manage her immigrant parents’ expectations: though they want her to pursue medicine, Anisa yearns to become an artist. After a rough first semester, Anisa jumps at the chance to spend a semester in Cairo with her extended family. There, she experiments with wearing a headscarf, which soon offers other avenues for her to deepen her connection to Islam. Simultaneously, she begins an internship with a cartoonist at an Egyptian newspaper, an opportunity that allows her to hone her creative skills. Hamdy spoke with PW about the intersection of comics and medicine, and learning the art of visual storytelling through trial and error.
Read, courtesy of Publishers Weekly.
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