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- On Codes and Translation: Understanding Alaa Awad
- Ode to Alexandria – Where it all began
- 7orreya: Graffiti Exhibition on Freedom of Expression in Cairo
- Belal Ali Saber: Graffiti by Ammar Abo Bakr and El Zeft
- Street Art and Morsi – Cairo Artists Continue the Fight
- Art in The Streets: Videos on Beirut, Palestine, Tripoli and Cairo for MOCATV
- Graffiti for a Social Cause: Zeft, Nazeer, Nemo and Mona Lisa Brigades
- Women in Graffiti: A Tribute to the Women of Egypt
- Return to Tahrir: Two Years and Graffiti of the Martyrs
- Graffiti in Palestine: Female Street Artist from East Jerusalem and Rockets over Gaza
- Egyptian Graffiti Artists Exhibit Around the World
- The Art of Movement: Another Chapter of Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti
- For the Love of Graffiti: Cairo’s Walls Trace History of Colourful Revolution
- Beirut Graffiti: Quirky, Colourful Street Art in Lebanon
- Tripoli Graffiti: Revolution Street Art in Libya
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Author Archives: Suzee in The City
On Codes and Translation: Understanding Alaa Awad
Awad made work that he hoped people would think and argue about; and those clever enough to recognize his shapes as forms of dissent and resistance felt pleasure in being let in on his secret Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination, Uncategorized
Tagged Alaa Awad, Ancient Egypt, Karnak Temple, La Vache Qui Rit, Luxor, Ma'at, Pharaoh, Pharaonic, Pharaonic mural, street art, Suzanne
6 Comments
Ode to Alexandria – Where it all began
Definition of irony: I lived almost twenty years in Alexandria, but it was only after I moved to Cairo and started writing about graffiti that I found all threads leading me back home. It seemed that everyone I spoke to … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Alexandria, Alexandrian graffiti, Amir Rizk, Artest, artists, Aya Tarek, Azarita, city, collaborative, Corniche, Egypt, Equestrian Club, female graffiti, grafiti, group projects, Khedive Ismail, Ma'Claim, Mona Lisa Brigade, street art, Wensh, woman graffiti
3 Comments
7orreya: Graffiti Exhibition on Freedom of Expression in Cairo
No matter how seasoned and jaded you are, it’s always a shock to see the ultimate Egyptian symbol of violence and oppression – the police state- on a pair of naked legs or on the back of a dirty, sodden … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Archive
Tagged 7orreya, Ahdaf Soueif, Ahmed Hefnawi, Ammar Abo Bakr, Art, art exhibition, artist, Cairo, censorship, Champolion, Egypt, egypt art, egypt street, exhibition, freedom of speech, Ganzeer, graffiti, graffiti artist, Hefnawi, street art, Viennoise Hotel
3 Comments
Belal Ali Saber: Graffiti by Ammar Abo Bakr and El Zeft
At some point, it seemed realistic to aspire to live with dignity in Egypt. Now, two years on and with thousands of Egyptians dead, the right to live now depends on who’s side you’re on; us or theirs. Death is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Archive
Tagged 2011, agenda, Ammar Abo Bakr, Anas, angel wings, Art, Bahia Shehab, Belal Ali, Belal Ali Saber, Cairo Graffiti, El Zeft, eye sniper, fascist, Gika, Islam, killing, Martyr Mural, Mohamed Mahmoud, murder, Muslim Brotherhood, Nefertiti, Pablo Neruda, political, poster, poster art, regime, security forces, youth of Egypt
5 Comments
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
8 Comments
Art in The Streets: Videos on Beirut, Palestine, Tripoli and Cairo for MOCATV
It’s not every day that total amateurs get the chance to make a video for a contemporary art museum, but that’s exactly what happened to me when Jeffrey Deitch, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, emailed … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Ali Rafei, Amahl Khouri, Ammar Abo Bakr, Apartheid Wall, Arab artists, Arab graffiti, Arab street artists, Areej Mawasi, Art in the streets, Banksy, Bjork, Cairo, city art, city streets, Deitch, Egypt, EPS, Ganzeer, graffiti scene, Islam Momtaz, JR, Kabreet, Lebanon, Libya, May Odeh, MOCA, MOCA TV, MOCATV, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Nazeer, Os Gemeos, Osama Alfitory, Palestine, PG Crew, Ramallah, spray cans, Tripoli, West Bank
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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
9 Comments
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
65 Comments
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
4 Comments
Graffiti in Palestine: Female Street Artist from East Jerusalem and Rockets over Gaza
I wanted to post this later, but given the IDF’s current military operation against Gaza now with dozens of civilian deaths just last night alone, the artist Areej Mawasi asked me to post this in order to shed light about … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Areej Mawasi, East Jerusalem graffiti, Gaza, Ghassan Kanafani, Hebrew University, hope, Hope for palestine, Intifada, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Street Art, martin luther king, meetareej.com, Mohamed Gaber, Palestine, Palestine graffiti, Palestinian woman, Peace, protest street art, rockets over Gaza, souad hosni, there is hope, zionist
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Egyptian Graffiti Artists Exhibit Around the World
The past two years have given good exposure to the Egyptian street art scene. With increasing international media focus on graffiti artists – I’ve lost count of the number of print articles, news shorts and documentaries made – comes increasing … Continue reading
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Ammar Abo Bakr, Arabic Graffiti, arms expo, art curators, Aya Tarek, Beirut, Egyptian art, ethics, Frankfurt, Ganzeer, graffiti exhibitions, Graffiti School, Hetan, Kareem Gouda, Of the People, protest graffiti, Shank, Shatila, Shepard Fairey, Switzerland, Theaterfestival Basel, Washington DC, White Wall
5 Comments
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.
Posted in Street Art Fascination
Tagged Feb17, February 17, fulool, Gadafi, Libya, mural, Omar Al Mokhtar, revolutionary graffiti, street art in Tripoli, streetart, Tripoli
8 Comments
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