Country of Origin
The location of Mohammed Mahmud Street.
What is Egypt?
What is sumud?
A foreigner who frequents West Bank wall and uses the space in a way that demonstrates outsider input, nearly overpowering local voices.
Who is Banksy?
A young man on a bicycle carrying on his head a large tray of Egyptian bread, facing a military tank, and a sad panda behind the cyclist.
What is Tank vs. Bike and Sad Panda?
The authorities of this country aim to "extend and reproduce domination and reinscribe it in space."
What is Israel?
Artistic expressions and their messages are at risk of being neutralized when this occurs.
What is market commodification OR political co-optation?
Began painting murals following the Ahly football team massacre. Typically uses ancient Egyptian Pharaonic motifs in his graffiti
Who is Alaa Awad?
Graffiti on Mohamed Mahmud Street of Pharaonic-dressed men carrying a sarcophagus as women are depicted mourning to the right.
What is The Funeral?
“Liberté, freedom, hurriya”
What is Tunisia?
A dispute over what is given about the frame within which we see something as given.
What is dissensus?
Poet from revolutionary period of the 1960s and 1970s in Palestine.
Graffiti over a school gate depicting a snake with three heads; each one a different authoritative figure of the old regime or the current regime; Women overlook the men, inviting them in.
What is The Hostess?
The location of the Declaration of Independence mural.
What is Palestine?
The language in which the Tunisian constitution was written in.
What is fusha?
A writer in pre- and post Mubarak Egypt, a self-identified graffiti artist who lives, works and attends university in Alexandria.
Who is Mahmoud Ali?
Displays martyrs of the Second Intifada; this piece is criticized as being blamed for a normalization of death under occupation.
This nation's regime dragged a peaceful uprising into a civil war.
What is Syria?
Art from this period in Palestine embodies dissensus, this era also holds the generation that are particularly challenging for the current dominating forces.
What is Post-Oslo?
Regularly painting the walls since 2011, said painting graffiti was a way of defending and occupying Mohamed Mahmud Street.
Who is Ammar Abu Bakr?
Mohammed Mahmud Street graffiti of a row of non-slave women in ancient Egypt, each robed in vibrant hues of red, black, purple, or blue.
What is Haraar?