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Recent Posts
- Street Art and Morsi – Cairo Artists Continue the Fight May 1, 2013
- Art in The Streets: Videos on Beirut, Palestine, Tripoli and Cairo for MOCATV April 16, 2013
- Graffiti for a Social Cause: Zeft, Nazeer, Nemo and Mona Lisa Brigades March 11, 2013
- Women in Graffiti: A Tribute to the Women of Egypt January 7, 2013
- Return to Tahrir: Two Years and Graffiti of the Martyrs December 29, 2012
- Graffiti in Palestine: Female Street Artist from East Jerusalem and Rockets over Gaza November 15, 2012
- Egyptian Graffiti Artists Exhibit Around the World November 4, 2012
- The Art of Movement: Another Chapter of Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti September 20, 2012
- For the Love of Graffiti: Cairo’s Walls Trace History of Colourful Revolution September 20, 2012
- Beirut Graffiti: Quirky, Colourful Street Art in Lebanon August 28, 2012
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Tag Archives: mural
For the Love of Graffiti: Cairo’s Walls Trace History of Colourful Revolution
This article was originally published in The National on August 18. I’ve republished it here to include some of my favourite images of graffiti over the past 20 months. A street artist once told me: “Graffiti is the one tangible … Continue reading
Tripoli Graffiti: Revolution Street Art in Libya
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to visit Tripoli during Libya’s first democratic National Congress elections in 40 years since the downfall of the Gadafi regime. I’d heard and read so much about Tripoli and was excited to … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Feb17, February 17, fulool, Gadafi, Libya, mural, Omar Al Mokhtar, revolutionary graffiti, street art in Tripoli, streetart, Tripoli
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AUC and the Port Said Mural – A Personal Plea
A funny thing happened outside the AUC on Mohamed Mahmoud Street last Thursday. As a group of onlookers, including journalists, photographers, documentary makers and myself, watched Ammar Abo Bakr, Alaa Awad and several other artists diligently work away on a … Continue reading
Graffiti War – The Street Versus Pepsi
Mobinil’s ‘Win a Cherokee’ Campaign taps into the graffiti trend with its design So a little revolution happened. The streets filled up, people yelled, a tyrant was dethroned and the world media fixated on Egypt’s younger generation, saying nice (though … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Adham Bakry, Affaf Shoeib, Banksy, beautiful graffiti, Billboard, Birell, Cairo, Cairo street art, Cherokee, Chivas, Coca Cola, El Teneen, Estargel, graffiti, Heliopolis, keizer, Mobinil, mural, New Egypt, Pepsi, protest graffiti, revolution, Safwat Sherif, Spray Cans Never Exhausted, stencil, stencils, Street, Vimto, walls, Zamalek, Zook
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