Tag Archives: street art

On Codes and Translation: Understanding Alaa Awad

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Suzee in The City

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 | 7 Comments

Ode to Alexandria – Where it all began

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Suzee in The City

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 | 5 Comments

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

Graffiti for a Social Cause: Zeft, Nazeer, Nemo and Mona Lisa Brigades

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Suzee in The City

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

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Suzee in The City

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 | 66 Comments

Street Art on Mohamed Mahmoud – Photos

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Suzee in The City

Mural by Shaza Khaled and Aliaa El Tayeb, who studied at the Luxor Faculty of Fine Arts. The mural is inspired by a photo-shopped image of a protester in Greece dancing with a ballerina.

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Ahmed Adel El Mogy, Alaa Awad, Ammar Abo Bakr, AUC, Egypt, Falaki Street, Greek Campus, Hanaa El Degham, Mohamed Batran, Mohamed Mahmoud, Murals, revolution, Samira Ibrahim, SCAF, Sheikh Emad Effat, street art, tahrir, Zeft | 18 Comments

In the Midst of Madness: Graffiti of the Ultras on Mohamed Mahmoud Street

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Suzee in The City

In the midst of the madness of the night of February 2nd, where thousands of protesters ran through the crowded street of Mohamed Mahmoud amidst the insufferable tear gas fumes filling the air and ominous sounds of gunshots echoing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Alaa Awad, Ammar Abu Bakr, battlefield, Egyptian Parliament, Football Hooligans, graffiti, Luxor, Mansour Street, Martyrs, Mohamed Khaled, Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Portsaid, Portsaid Massacre, SCAF, street art, Ultras, Ultras Ahlawy | 13 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

Conversation with Ganzeer: the Tank, Buddha and Mad Graffiti Week

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Suzee in The City

If you Google search Cairo Street Art, Ganzeer’s name is your top result. Countless interviews and features on the artist follow. As arguably the most recognized name on Cairo’s art scene today, it’s no surprise that Ganzeer is the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Cairo street art, Cairo Street Art Map, Egypt, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Ganzeer, Islam Raafat, ismail yaseen, keizer, Mad Graffiti Week, Mad Graffiti Weekend, Martyrs Murals Project, mask of freedom, Mohamed Fahmy, Mr. Brainwash, Murals, pulp fiction, revolution, Sad Panda, SCAF, street art, Tank Versus Bike | 16 Comments

The Wave Against Graffiti – We Ba3deen?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Suzee in The City

Graffiti is not meant to be permanent; but it is meant to produce a reaction, even if that reaction means removing it because it’s offensive, or an eyesore. However, when you’re a Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo that teaches … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Amr Gamal, army, Cairo Graffiti, Charles Akl, Faculty of Fine Arts, graffiti, graffiti in Zamalek, Habib El Adly, Hany Khaled, keizer, Merghani Bridge, Mubarak, Pro-SCAF, Sad Panda, SCAF, Shank, street art, Tantawy, Zamalek | 2 Comments

Pop Goes Graffiti – The Faces of Cairo Street Art

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Suzee in The City

Artist Shank signs his name with a figure that somehow reminds me of Gorillaz pop art. Lately, the graffiti I’ve stumbled upon around Cairo seems to be predominantly faces of pop icons, political figures and cartoon characters, mostly Western references … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Adel Imam, Agouza, Amr Gamal, astronaut, Baradei, Batman, beautiful graffiti, Cairo street art, Charles Akl, Dokhan, Dollface, Downtown, El Teneen, Ghandi, Gorillaz, graffiti, Inciter, ismail yaseen, Joker, keizer, Mohamed Mounir, Nazeer, No Country for Old Men, pulp fiction, Sad Panda, SAM, Shank, Sheikh Yaseen, stencil, street art, tahrir, Tamer Hosny, Tanks, Tawfiq El Dekken, walls, xenophobia, Zamalek | 13 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

Cairo Graffiti -For Whom Exactly?

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Suzee in The City

‘Stop taking photographs of this, go to a museum,’ he mutters as he walks past me. I’m standing in front of the American University in Cairo’s library wall, photographing a graffiti piece depicting video game characters Ryu and Mr. Bison, … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Adham Bakry, Afaf Shoeib, angel, Bart Simpson, bus stop, Cairo, Curfew, Dictator, Dokhan, graffiti, ismail yaseen, keizer, Korba, Niqab, Pizza, pulp fiction, revolution, Sad Panda, street art, tahrir, video games, Woody Allen | 8 Comments

An Afternoon with Sad Panda

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Suzee in The City

We meet under the most peculiar of circumstances. I’d been in touch with Sad Panda over Twitter about photographing his graffiti in the Cairo area of Masaken Sheraton; yet I, having the mental compass of a duck in the desert, … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged Cairo, clandestine, dark, Egypt, graffiti, Masaken Sheraton, mask of freedom, Mubarak, political, Sad Panda, stencil, street art | 7 Comments

Cairo Street Art – Downtown Graffiti

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Suzee in The City

‘Excuse me,’ he walks up to me as I hesitantly put my camera down, ‘What does this picture mean?’ He points at the Keizer stencil of Mickey Mouse on the grey wall. Mahmoud Bassiouny Street on a Saturday afternoon is … Continue reading →

Posted in Street Art Fascination | Tagged AUC, beautiful graffiti, Cairo, Cairo street art, Downtown Cairo, El Teneen, Ganzeer, graffiti, keizer, Martyr Mural, Mr. X, revolutionary, Saad Zaghloul, Sad Panda, stencils, street art, Xist | 13 Comments