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- On Codes and Translation: Understanding Alaa Awad
- Ode to Alexandria – Where it all began
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- Belal Ali Saber: Graffiti by Ammar Abo Bakr and El Zeft
- Street Art and Morsi – Cairo Artists Continue the Fight
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- Graffiti for a Social Cause: Zeft, Nazeer, Nemo and Mona Lisa Brigades
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- Return to Tahrir: Two Years and Graffiti of the Martyrs
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- Egyptian Graffiti Artists Exhibit Around the World
- The Art of Movement: Another Chapter of Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti
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Tag Archives: Pharaonic mural
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
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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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