Assil Diab

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Assil Diab (Arabic: أسيل دياب; born 1988) is a Sudanese visual artist, graphic designer, and graffiti artist based in the United States. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, and moved to Qatar as a child. Diab studied graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and in Richmond, Virginia, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, and she also holds diplomas in Digital Marketing and Advanced Social Media Marketing. She works as a freelance designer and muralist, creating logos, branding, and wall paintings for businesses. She has been described as one of the first female graffiti artists in Qatar and in Sudan. Before freelancing, she worked at the Doha Film Institute and Al Jazeera Children's Channel. In 2019 she went back to Sudan to honor protesters who died during the revolution, painting murals on the walls of their family homes. In 2020 she won a UNESCO/i4policy award for a street art campaign about the coronavirus in Sudan. Since 2018 she has been an honorary cultural ambassador for Qatar Museums. Her work has been shown in Bahrain, Germany, Bangladesh, and the United States, and is featured in books such as Artisans of the Middle East and Dreesha.