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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: Zeft
Street Art and Morsi – Cairo Artists Continue the Fight
It feels like I keep writing the same post over and over again: images of sexual harassment, police violence, military violence, more martyrs, young martyrs, poems and tributes to martyrs, satire against Morsi, against religious and political hypocricy, against censorship … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Ahmed Naguib, Ammar Abo Bakr, ape, army, blue bra, Cairo, caricature, censorship, Egypt, elephant graffiti, Elhusseiny Abo Deef, garage, Gika, graffiti inside a garage, hosny, Mahmoud Saad, Military, Mira Shihadeh, Mohamed Cristy, Mohamed Morsi, Mohamed Yosry Salama, monkey graffiti, Morsi, Omar Salah, police violence, Reem Magued, revolution artist union, Sad Panda, sexual harassment, Sika, street artist, the Mozza, violence, violence against women, women artists, women graffiti, Women on Walls, Youssef Joe Estora, Zeft, Zeftawi
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Graffiti for a Social Cause: Zeft, Nazeer, Nemo and Mona Lisa Brigades
Egyptian graffiti artists are doing more than just painting art on street walls, they’re creating social awareness campaigns against corruption, media brainwashing, poverty and sexual harassment, and also using graffiti to beautify slum areas of Cairo to restore a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged anti-revolution graffiti, Ard El Lewa, awareness campaigns, bike versus tank, blog, Cairo Graffiti, Coloring thru corruption, Coloringthrucorruption, corruption, educate, EIPR, faces, Iman Salama, kids, Mansoura, Maspiro, men, Mona Lisa Brigades, Nazeer, neighbourhood, Nemo, Op-AntiSH, politics, poverty, protest, sexual harassment, slum, social awareness, street art, street kids, Zamalek, Zeft
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Women in Graffiti: A Tribute to the Women of Egypt
It’s a battle, being a woman in an Arab country, but perhaps the dire conditions makes us fighters. Since January 25, so many foreign reporters have waxed on about the awakening of Arab women in the Arab Spring; and how … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged 4SprayCans, A Thousand Times No, Alaa Awad, Aliaa El Mahdy, Ammar Abo Bakr, Amr Nazeer, Aya Tarek, Bahia Shehab, blue bra girl, Egypt graffiti, Get Angry, Hanaa El Degham, Hend Kheera, keizer, Laila Magued, Microphone, Mira Shihadeh, Nefertiti, Noon El Neswa, Nooneswa, Pablo Neruda, Samira Ibrahim, sexual harassment, Sit El Banat, Soaad Hosny, street art, women, women graffiti, X4SprayCans, Zeft
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Return to Tahrir: Two Years and Graffiti of the Martyrs
It was my first time to walk through Tahrir after three months away from Egypt, and I don’t quite know why I was so bewildered and shell-shocked. Perhaps it was the heaviness of the atmosphere in the square, the squalid … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Alaa Awad, Amal Donqol, Ammar Abo Bakr, Amr Nazeer, Assiut Train Crash, El Husseiny Abo Deef, El Morshed, Gika, hosny, Iyad El Oraby, January 25, Kasr El Eini Street, Koran, Laila Magued, Lycee, Mansour Street, Mina Daniel, Mogamaa, Mohamed Mahmoud, Omar Picasso, Pharaonic mural, Sheikh Emad Effat, tahrir, Tefa, Ultras, Zeft
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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
Street Art on Mohamed Mahmoud – Photos
Mural by Shaza Khaled and Aliaa El Tayeb, who studied at the Luxor Faculty of Fine Arts. The mural is inspired by a photoshopped image of a protester in Greece dancing with a ballerina. Hanaa El Degham’s beautiful mural on … Continue reading
