Egyptian Revolution Graffiti

Street art of the egyptian revolution.

Egyptian revolution graffiti. Remind students that this revolution began during the arab spring a wave of popular uprisings that swept the arab world starting in december 2010. So in a way things have changed deceivingly changed. Swedish photographer mia grondahl documented the graffiti art that arose in egypt following the 2011 uprising. The heart of the egyptian revolution. Messages of love and politics and tahrir square. 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. Graffiti on cairo s concrete veins tells one ugly truth.

The more things change in egypt the more they stay the same. As mia gröndahl explains in the preface to her new collection of photographs revolution graffiti. 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. 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. ثورة 25 يناير. Every one now will know more about gika eissa aboobaida and a lot of other martyrs stories. 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.

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. Revolution graffiti documents the urgency and self confidence of contemporary egyptian street art. Street art of the new egypt. Infamous egyptian street artist ganzeer told voice of america for example that he is using motifs from 2011 to protest today s regime. The egyptian revolution as told through graffiti. 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 egyptian revolution of 2011 also known as the 25 january revolution arabic.

Most of the images reproduced in the book make the work of celebrated british graffiti artists. The dreams hopes and anger of the egyptian uprising after 2011 found their most direct and emotional expression through graffiti art a swedish journalist based in cairo told a duke audience wednesday.