Projects tagged
North Africa
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‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street art
Read more: ‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street artMaha ElNabawi Amid the bleak backdrop of a revolution-riddled Egypt, a beacon of positivity shone on downtown Cairo Friday during the launch of one of the most exciting, social-conscious street art collaborations to happen this year. “Women on Walls” or…
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Lebanese art rockers creating the soundtrack to the Arab Spring
Read more: Lebanese art rockers creating the soundtrack to the Arab SpringBeirut, Lebanon (CNN) — They’ve been described as the voice of their generation — though not one that everyone is comfortable hearing. Mashrou’ Leila, whose name translates as “The Night Project,” is a controversial alternative rock band from Lebanon, whose…
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Read more: eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in TunisiaLast week, Tunisia’s tallest minaret went under the brush of the country’s hottest muralist. On the Jara Mosque in his hometown of Gabes, 31-year-old eL Seed painted a verse from the Quran preaching tolerance, a message meant for Salafist Islamists…
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Abler
Read more: AblerSara Hendren is an Enabler. Hendren’s writing, research, and “knowledge-building” propels conversations of ability and disability in such a way that activates a creative dialogue as well as provides a scholarly basis for cultural critique. “Sara Hendren is an artist,…
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Jay Shells Drops “Rap Quotes,” His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project Yet
Read more: Jay Shells Drops “Rap Quotes,” His Most Site-Specific Street Art Project YetJAY SHELLS DROPS “RAP QUOTES,” HIS MOST SITE-SPECIFIC STREET ART PROJECT YET By Aymann Ismail | March 25, 2013 – 12:30PM After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop…
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Tunisians dance in defiance
Read more: Tunisians dance in defianceThe flashmob ‘’I will dance despite everything’’ was organized in Tunis’s old medina on December 2012 by “Art Solution”, a Tunisian group aiming to promote street art as a form of resistance. “The association is conceived of as a response…
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Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’
Read more: Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’By WILLIAM J. BROAD With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28, a Saturday. The…
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Art and the Arab Awakening
Read more: Art and the Arab AwakeningArt and the Arab Awakening By Nama Khalil, August 2, 2012 Revolutionary street art in Tunisia. In the days following Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, burned and battered cars piled up inside state-owned lots throughout…
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Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street art
Read more: Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street artBy Maha ElNabawi It was a landmark day when prominent women’s rights activist Doria Shafiq bravely led a march of 1,500 women to storm the gates of Parliament on 19 February 1951. After several hours of unrelenting protest, Shafiq was…
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Liberation art from the Church
Read more: Liberation art from the ChurchFrom Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today “There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the…