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In photos: The third Trader of Simplicity exhibition remembers Hisham Rizq
"We want to immortalize that feeling that overwhelmed us six years ago"
Leena ElDeeb
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#art in public space
Q&A with eL Seed: Changing perceptions
“We aren’t the zabaleen — the rest of Cairo is.”
Aimee Dawson
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#graffiti
The strange Middle East focus of Banksy’s Dismaland
“The way Banksy chose my work was strange, and the place is strange, and so I feel my participation in the exhibition is strange,” explains Syrian artist Tammam Azzam about…
Naira Antoun و Maha ElNabawi
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#advertising
7UP borrows Cairo Dish Painting Initiative: Intellectual theft or fair game?
Paris-based American artist Jason Stoneking spent three months in Cairo at the end of 2014 as a resident artist in Artellewa, an art space in one of the city's oldest…
Rowan El Shimi
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#American University in Cairo
Mohamed Mahmoud demolition for beauty, not politics, says Cairo official
Demolition crews are tearing down the wall on Mohamed Mahmoud Street in downtown Cairo that became iconic for its successive layers of massive graffiti murals memorializing…
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#Aya Tarek
Revolutionary graffiti book still being held by authorities, publishers say
Four hundred copies of Walls of Freedom are still being held by the customs authority more than two months after their confiscation,…
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#Aya Tarek
Graffiti book seized pending police enquiry despite censors’ approval
On Wednesday, privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the customs authority in Alexandria had seized 400 copies of a book documenting…
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#activist arrests
‘Graffiti detainees’ released from custody on LE10,000 bail
After being arrested for creating a graffiti tribute to a detained friend, four April 6 Youth Movement members were released from custody…
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#freedom of expression
Of wall writings and trash
A law still in its draft stage banning “writings deemed defamatory” on walls is expected to stir another wave of criticism for its…
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Mia Jankowicz
A lick of paint
«You probably noticed that Qasr al-Nil Bridge has been repainted in green and lavish gold. Just the other week, the glistering wet paint on the railings leapt out…»
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