After the protests in Tahrir Square, the Egyptian mlitary built walls around the Square and other parts of downtown Cairo that lead to government buildings. Using art as a different form of resistance, artists and citizens have been painting murals on all of the walls, the most stunning of which is above and virtually “dissappears”…
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We clipped a few excerpts from the compelling Letter from Cairo: On the Square by Wendell Steavenson in a recent New Yorker, describing improvisations devised by protestors in Tahrir Square during the recent revolutionary actions: “At Friday prayer, ranks of men laid out improvised prayer mats: kaffiyehs, newspapers, an Egyptian flag, slogan placards. They wiped…
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