page_title: Mahmoud Kahil
section_title: Mahmoud Kahil Award
hierarchical_section_title: Mahmoud Kahil / Mahmoud Kahil Award
caption_attribution_description: English: جائزة محمود كحيل Mahmoud Kahil Award logo
context_page_description: Mahmoud Kahil محمود كحيل was a Lebanese-born British editorial cartoonist.
context_section_description: On 29 April 2015 the initiative of Mutazz and Rada Sawwaf was launched at the American University of Beirut to create a new comics award for all talent in the Arab world in the field of cartoons, illustrations and graphic design and name it "The Mahmoud Kahil Award".
  To date 3 years of Kahil Awards have been held in Lebanon and a bunch of extremely creative illustrators, cartoonists and designers have won. Participants have doubled every year and the works have been very creative and competitive. 
  The awards categories are:
  Editorial Cartoons ($10,000)
  Graphic Novels ($10,000)
  Comic Strips ($6,000)
  Graphic Illustrations ($5,000)
  Children’s Book Illustrations ($5,000)
  Additionally, two honorary awards are made:
  The Lifetime Achievement Hall of fame, recognizing an outstanding dedication and service for a minimum of 25 years in the fields of graphic arts and cartoons
  The Comics Guardian Award, recognizing those who have extensively supported comics  and cartoons in the Arab world through preserving, collecting, promoting, publishing, teaching  or exhibiting this art, and thereby contributing to the cultural heritage of the region.
  The next awards will be the 4th and will be held in Lebanon in 2019.
caption: جائزة محمود كحيل Mahmoud Kahil Award logo
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