Aya Khalil is the award-winning author of The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story, which is an NCTE\'s Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book and a 2021 Arab American Book Award among other honors, The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story (2023) and The Banned Books Bake Sale: A Protest Story (2023).
Her signature style is a combination of geometrical shapes, funny characters and harmonious color palettes with a retro twist..
She works with clients from all around the world on a wide range of projects, from editorial illustrations to animations, branding images and pattern design.
Magda Azab is an Italian-Egyptian illustrator based in a small town near Milan.
Find her at: ayakhalil.com.
She immigrated from Egypt to the United States when she was young and currently lives with her partner and three children in Northwest Ohio.
Aya holds a master\'s degree in Education and works as a freelance journalist, whose articles have been featured in The Huffington Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.
Aya Khalil is the award-winning author of The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story, which is an NCTE\'s Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book and a 2021 Arab American Book Award among other honors, The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story (2023) and The Banned Books Bake Sale: A Protest Story (2023)
