Tag Archives: Cairo

7orreya: Graffiti Exhibition on Freedom of Expression in Cairo

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Suzee in The City

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

Street Art and Morsi – Cairo Artists Continue the Fight

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Suzee in The City

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

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Suzee in The City

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 | 3 Comments

For the Love of Graffiti: Cairo’s Walls Trace History of Colourful Revolution

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Suzee in The City

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 →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Ammar Abo Bakr, Amr Nazeer, Apes, Cairo, Charles Akl Amr Gamal, El Moshir, Habib El Adly, Hazem Abo Ismail, ismail yaseen, Jan25, Mazinger, Mohamed Reda, mural, Nietzsche, Revolution of Love, Street Fighter, Ultras, Zeft | 3 Comments

Writing About Graffiti in Cairo- One Year On

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Suzee in The City

If this post comes across as offensive, arrogant or downright nasty to anyone, I apologise in advance; I literally woke up on the wrong side of bed and pulled a shoulder, so I’m cranky; plus this matter has been on … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Alaa Awad, Alexandria, Ammar Abo Bakr, Amr Nazeer, Aya Tarek, Cairo, Egypt Street Art, Ganzeer, graffiti artists contact, Graffiti the streets of Egypt, Hanaa El Degham, Hend Kheera, Kareem Gouda, keizer, Mad Graffiti Weekend, Mia Groendahl, Mohamed El Moshir, revolution graffiti, Zeftawi | 14 Comments

Introducing Suzee Out of The City

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Suzee in The City

The name started as a joke (as did Suzee in the City) but I figured that I should start a travel blog since I travel every time I make enough money to get me out of Cairo – which is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex, Beach, Cairo, Egypt, Mediterranean, North Coast, Sea, Suzee Out of The City, Travel | 4 Comments

AUC and the Port Said Mural – A Personal Plea

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Suzee in The City

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 →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Alaa Awad, Ammar Abo Bakr, art institution, AUC, AUC administration, Cairo, canvas, Falaki Street, Mansour Street, Mohamed Mahmoud, mural, Port Said Massacre, tribute | 7 Comments

January 25 – The Anniversary: Graffiti

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Suzee in The City

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Cairo, Cairo street art, Cairo Street Art Map, censorship, Egypt, Egypt women, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Ganzeer, Islam Raafat, ismail yaseen, Jan25, January 25, keizer, Mad Graffiti Week, Mad Graffiti Weekend, Martyrs Murals Project, mask of freedom, Military, Mohamed Fahmy, Mosheer, Mr. Brainwash, Murals, pulp fiction, revolution, Sad Panda, SCAF, sexual harassment, street art, Tank Versus Bike, women, women graffiti | 4 Comments

Graffiti in Cairo: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Cow?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Suzee in The City

Having stalked them, befriended them and followed them around like an overenthusiastic puppy for the past six months, I think I’ve sort of figured out the mentality of certain graffiti artists in Cairo.

Posted in Cool Art Ideas and Blogs | Tagged Adham Bakry, Advertising, Advertising agencies, Art, Cairo, Cairo brand agencies, Cairo street art, Corporations, Egypt, graffiti, graffiti artists, Hosni Mubarak, La Vache Qui Rit, political, politics, sadistic, sticker | 1 Comment

Cool Cairo Art Idea: One Year Project

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Suzee in The City

This really cool tumblr was sent to me by Hashem Kelesh via twitter. One Year Project is an experimental project by three very talented Egyptian artists, Moe Al Hussainy, Islam Shabana, and Hashem Kelesh, where they photograph themselves each day … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Art Ideas and Blogs | Tagged Art, artists, Cairo, Cairo street art, Hashem Kelesh, iPad, Islam Shabana, Moe El Husseiny, One Year Project, young artists Cairo | 3 Comments

Graffiti War – The Street Versus Pepsi

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Suzee in The City

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 patronizing) things about us for once.

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 | 32 Comments

Protest Graffiti: Solidarity with Syria Spreads from Cairo

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Suzee in The City

One of the things that we Egyptians have in common with Syrians is our democratically elected rulers’ penchant for killing their own people – only Syria’s Bashar El Assad has thrown caution (and chummy relations with the morally conscious Western … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Bashar El Assad, Beirut, Cairo, Cairo street art, El Hamra, El Teneen, Gaza, Gaza Walls, Hama, Hitler, King of the Jungle, Lebanon, Malek El Ghaba, Middle East, Palestine, protest, protest graffiti, Riding a tank, Syria, Tank, wheel of productivity | 23 Comments

Protest Graffiti in Tahrir – The Mogamaa

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Suzee in The City

The walls of the Mogamaa are filled with protest graffiti. There’s rarely an empty space left between the large and colourful murals by HK, the witty caricature-like pieces by Hosny and the stencils by El Teneen, Sad Panda and many … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Art, artwork, Bo'loz, Cairo, Cairo street art, Dalida, El Teneen, Fangary, graffiti, Helw Ya Balady, HK, hosny, mogammaa, Murals, peaceful protesters, protest graffiti, Red Beret, Red Sea, revolution, Sad Panda, SCAF, sit-in, tahrir, tent city, thugs, walls | 7 Comments

An Evening on The Streets With Keizer

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Suzee in The City

His car stinks of spray cans. The back seat is filled with enough aerosol cans to make a pyromaniac weep with joy. If he were ever stopped and searched by the police, he’d have a field day explaining the bottles, … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination, Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Banksy, Barak Obama, Baxter Orr, British, Cairo, Cairo street art, Capitalism, CJB, Consumerism, Corporations, graffiti, Imitation, keizer, Michael Jackson, Obey, originality, Picasso, SCAF, Shepard Fairey, wall art, whimsical | 31 Comments

New Graffiti in Cairo – Nighttime Stalking

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Suzee in The City

I think I prefer the streets of Cairo to its people. After the hours of fuming traffic and deafening horns, hostile faces watching and asking questions, I’m finally left in peace after midnight, standing on an empty side street under … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Art, AUC, Bashar El Assad, Cairo, Coca Cola, El Teneen, graffiti, Hend Rostom, Hosni Mubarak, Hummingbird, Jungle, keizer, Mobinil, mural, Nazi, People, Pepsi, Power, Sharm El Sheikh, street art, Syria, walls, Zook | 2 Comments