[64] Egyptian Revolution Graffiti

Tell students that they will consider the role of graffiti in egypt in the years since the start of the revolution in january 2011.

[93] Egyptian Revolution Graffiti . Most of the images reproduced in the book make the work of celebrated british graffiti artists. Every one now will know more about gika eissa aboobaida and a lot of other martyrs stories. Infamous egyptian street artist ganzeer told voice of america for example that he is using motifs from 2011 to protest today s regime.

Finally i can feel how important my work is and how i can change the whole world with some spray cans and share it with every one around the globe. The heart of the egyptian revolution. Mia gr ndahl the photographer of gaza graffiti.

The more things change in egypt the more they stay the same. Street art of the egyptian revolution. Thawrah 25 yanāyir started on 25 january 2011 and spread across egypt the date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual egyptian police holiday as a statement against increasing police brutality during the last few years of mubarak s presidency.

So in a way things have changed deceivingly changed. Revolution graffiti is a vibrant and comprehensive montage of the graffiti community over the past two years and includes everything from simple hand written messages to stencils and portraits of martyrs and elaborate murals decorating on mohamed mahmoud street egypt independent. The egyptian revolution that began on 25 january 2011 immediately gave rise to a wave of popular political and social expression in the form of graffiti and street art phenomena that were almost unknown in the country under the old regime.

The egyptian revolution of 2011 also known as the 25 january revolution arabic. Street art of the new egypt the egyptian people called for freedom bread and social justice demands that newly hatched graffitists translated into stencils and drawings that spread like wildfire in the street all over egypt gröndahl s ambitious but hardly exhaustive inventory of street graffiti from across the country offers a glimpse of the spectacle of the arab spring as. Graffiti on cairo s concrete veins tells one ugly truth.

The egyptian revolution as told through graffiti. Finally my art work is published as part of one of the well written and documented graffiti books walls of freedom. Revolution graffiti documents the urgency and self confidence of contemporary egyptian street art.

Remind students that this revolution began during the arab spring a wave of popular uprisings that swept the arab world starting in december 2010. Street art of the new egypt. As mia gröndahl explains in the preface to her new collection of photographs revolution graffiti.

People singing revolutionary slogans come and go says naguib but the graffiti remains and keeps our spirits alive for me the graffiti represent the creativity of people to develop new tools. Swedish photographer mia grondahl documented the graffiti art that arose in egypt following the 2011 uprising.