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Tunisia
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Tunisian Human Rights Activists Take to the Streets with Art
Read more: Tunisian Human Rights Activists Take to the Streets with ArtPost revolution Tunisia is all too familiar with protest – usually through demonstrations – but one group of activists are using the power of street art to get their message across. Calling themselves “Fanni Raghman Anni” (Arabic for “My Art…
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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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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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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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The Rap That Sparked a Revolution
Read more: The Rap That Sparked a RevolutionAs the world watches Cairo burn, I can’t help but think that the flames of protest engulfing Egypt were sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17 after police confiscated his vegetable…