Marguerite Dabaie

Marguerite Dabaie is a Palestinian-American illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY.

Biography & career
Dabaie is a freelance illustrator and has worked with publications such as the Nib, the Believer, Abrams, and Viking Penguin. They are also an editor for the A.M. Qattan Foundation and Birzeit University, as well as an editor, writer, and cultural consultant for the tabletop RPG Blackbirds.

Dabaie also wrote and drew the graphic novel The Hookah Girl, a semi-autobiographical work about Dabaie's childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America. Told in short stories, the novel is an account of living in two seemingly different yet similar cultures.

Dabaie regularly publishes different graphic comics under the banner of their Legends in the Heights series.