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Revolutionary Street Art: Complicating the Discourse

September 3, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Street Art

by Hannah Elansary Sept 01 2014 The graffiti and street art of revolutionary Egypt have been researched many times over by now.Journalists and scholars have explored the phenomenon in its many aspects—as evolving visual text, as political rhetoric and as an act of protest in its own right. The claims about the protest street art and graffiti that have proliferated across public Egyptian walls since 2011 have been

Egypt’s nascent street art movement under pressure

August 28, 2014 Mona Baker Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Graffiti artists face threats of violence, and the potential of jail time and fines under a proposed draft law By Shahira Amin / 22 August, 2014 Before the January 2011 uprising, street art was little known in Egypt. Then came the revolution and with it, an outburst of creativity. With the fall of the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian artists who