{"id":5433,"date":"2012-02-18T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T06:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2012-02-18T06:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T06:13:30","slug":"egyptian-graffitology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=5433","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Graffitology"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — politics and esthetics of revolutionary graffiti ]
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\nAt first, I was looking to see whether Anonymous made an appearance in the graffiti of the Egyptian popular uprising, and yes indeed:<\/p>\n

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What I found in my searching around included some pretty striking graphics — and a well-wrought English pun-slogan, too!<\/p>\n

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In fact I stumbled onto a number of interesting visuals — many of them in Gigi Ibrahim<\/strong>‘s photostream of Egyptian street art<\/a><\/p>\n

One image that struck me featured “Tantawi’s underpants” — a popular motif, apparently, and one that seemed to me to make an interesting response \/ riposte to the iconic “blue bra girl” so shamelessly exposed by the Egyptian police:<\/p>\n

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So you can find a modern, maybe even a post-modern Egypt, up on the walls however fleetingly. But there’s also a sense of Egypt ancient and sophisticated — and this, too, I though worthy of your attention:<\/p>\n

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These two murals are grieving \/ protesting those who died in the “Port Said massacre<\/a>” which followed a football game between rival Egyptian teams.<\/p>\n

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There’s much more to be seen — from “Facebook” and “the revolution will not be tweeted” to “no more guns” and images of a young man throwing a molotov cocktail… to graphics of cross and crescent intertwined.<\/p>\n

The point being that this kind of “unofficial” art, like the anasheed of jihad, can give us a glimpse into the substrate of feeling that constitutes the morale of a given movement — which can at times be raw and stark, and at times strikingly beautiful, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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