A Mural for Mina Daniel
(photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy)
Mural by Alaa Awad. From The Buraqs of “Tahrir”, Mona Abaza, Jadaliyya.
Nawal el Saadawi at the women’s march in Tahrir, 20 April 2012. (photo by Gigi Ibrahim)
“The revolution came and we were very happy, but I believe nothing has changed. I am still censored on the television, for example. All the writers and journalists who are writing in the big newspapers are the same. They are Mubarak people! When you read Al-Ahram today or even Al Masry Al Youm, they have the same mentality: patriarchal, capitalist, classist. They are against women, against the poor. They are also hypocrites. … During the eighteen days in Tahrir, I was remembering when I was a child. I used to close my eyes and hear the millions chanting, ‘Noorid esqat el nezam.’ We demand the fall of the regime. This was my slogan when I was a child! My dream was to change the system. When people asked me what I wanted, I said, ‘I want to change the system.’ When I was a student in high school and also later in the faculty of medicine, I wanted to change the system. Now people ask me what my dream is and I say, ‘I want to change the system.’”
- From “The Particular Believer,” A Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi, Bidoun #25.
Union of Revolutionary Artists, Tahrir Square, 30 November 2011.
(by Hossam el-Hamalawy)
Protest art has never been intended as a preservationist enterprise.
(Qasr al-Aini, Cairo. Photographed by Jonathan Rashad.)
Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, by Malcolm Gladwell
‘“Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,” Aaker and Smith write. But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation — by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.’
(photo via Naira Antoun)
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(by Mosa’ab Elshamy)
Mural in the making. (by Gigi Ibrahim)
(by Jonathan Rashad)
A portrait of Emad Effat, Cairo.
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Myths & Legends Room
Hala Elkoussy
2010
“The myths and legends that Hala Elkoussy’s Myths & Legends Room – The Mural refers to are not those of a distant past but of today. They are photographic tales based on historical facts, rumors, religious beliefs, traditions, and other myths and legends, conjuring up narratives through which reality shimmers: the reality of life in Cairo, the city that lies at the base of almost all of Elkoussy’s works.”
(via Nafas Art Magazine)
