In December 2010, the decision of a man called Mohamed Bouazizi to burn himself, led to the Revolution in Tunisia which triggered subsequent unrests and government overthrows in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen. Syria seems to follow next.
As the revolution unfolded, protesters were beginning to express their ideas through graffiti. And as Blake Gopnik says in an article that was published in Foreign Policy, the similarity between the Arab Spring’s graffiti and the graffiti of the 1980s in New York is stunning. Graffiti, a Western form of the “art” of protest, is now a part of the Libyans’, Tunisians’ and Egyptians’ freedom of speech arsenal.
The images below are absolutely fantastic and I’ve selected at least 5 from each country (to be read-Egypt, Libya and Tunisia). Nevertheless, I recommend you to view them carefully and to eventually compare them to those that can be found in your home countries. Enjoy, be inspired and if you will like this article, then please share it with your friends or community! Many thanks! Cheers!
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Libya
Col. Muammar Gaddafi squeezed by the Revolution
REUTERS/Bob Strong
Col. Muammar Gaddafi and his son, hanged
Dad, tell the reptiles to crawl away”. Gaddafi: “Shut Up, you child!”
Gaddafi kicked by the Lybian people
Benghazi, east of Libya
Gaddafi portraited as a rat
Freedom Lybia
A peace sign in the colors of the rebel flag on Al Fatah Street near Mitiga International airport
Gaddafi thrown in the Garbage of History
Tripoli, Libya
How the Lybians felt Gaddafi was sharing the revenues from oil..
Gaddafi depicted as a chicken
Photographer: Theo Stamatiadis
Moammar Gadhafi(right) and his public relations officer Y. Shakhir
Photograph: Rory Mulholland
Fashlun, a neighborhood in west Tripoli
Photographer: Theo Stamatiadis
Graffiti depicting Libya’s ousted Moammar Gaddafi with “I Am Here” (Tripoli)
Have the rebels come or not?” asks Gaddafi
“I’m here, here, here!”
as Gaddafi points at a rat hole, with a sign reading “The Invincible Home”
Free Libya
Photograph: Rory Mulholland
Anti-Gaddafi grafitti
Photograph: Rory Mulholland
Egypt
Freedom of expression
Photograph: Mohamed El Hebeishy
Alternative media and how it played a crucial role in bringing freedom
Chess Pawns overthrowing the king (a.k.a. Hosni Mubarak)
Ousted president Hosni Mubarak (R) joined to half the face of Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi (L)
Hosni Mubarak and his inner circle
Tunisia
Long live the people!
Tunisians after the ouster of President Ben-Ali
“The popular uprising that unseated the dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January grew out of chronic youth unemployment; social and economic disparities between the affluent coastal regions and the impoverished interior; and a lack of political freedom”
Democratic rule in Tunisia is to be achieved
The Constitutional Democratic Rally party (RCD) was swept from power on 14 January 2011, after 23 years of repressive rule.
Mohammed Hanchi – the martyr who ignited the revolution
Free Syria ( Graffiti from London)
Main sources for the images: The Guardian and Al-Jazeera.