Last Thursday Jan. 19 an event was held in Goethe Institute near Tahrir in Downtown Cairo, Egypt to promote a new crowdsourcing website called 18 Days in Egypt. It was a launch party designed to provide an introduction to the project and how it can be used for documenting the Egyptian revolution among other events.
As part of the launch even [...]
Underground Egyptian Hip Hop
Last Thursday Jan. 19 an event was held in Goethe Institute near Tahrir in Downtown Cairo, Egypt to promote a new crowdsourcing website called 18 Days in Egypt. It was a launch party designed to provide an introduction to the project and how it can be used for documenting the Egyptian revolution among other events.
As part of the launch even [...]
Who is backing Mubarak…I mean S...
It is Saturday May 12th.
Ahmed Shafiq
I have gathered up a list of all those mentioned in the press that declared their support in Egypt’s presidential elections for Ahmed Shafiq (wiki in Arabic), the ex-prime minister appointed by Mubarak during the 18 days, who was in this position during the Battle of the Camels.
You might notice tha [...]
War Against Graffiti
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Graffiti or Die
I have spoken to several graffiti artists and told them about a recent news article I read where the East Cairo governate’s office will issue a law officially criminalizing street art (Tahrir was mentioned explicitly).
The next day, someone on twitter got caught up in the mix. They pulled him while sp [...]
Jordanian Hip Hop – الفرعي-El F...
Recently at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX I attended a discussion on Islam and Hip Hop at the Austin Convention Center. May Al Hassen, one of the panelists, mentioned the importance of the 5% and the Nation of Islam and its implication on the lyricism of true hip hop artists of past & present.
Transnational Beats: Muslim Americans and [...]
Kazeboon on AJE
@anonomia of Al Jazeera English goes on Listening Post to give you an idea of Kazeboon
إضراب
اضراب
يا عمال مصر اتحدوا
Stike
Egyptian workers unite
“The People want to Kick out th...
Revolution T-shirts
Graffiti Design by Adham Bakry
I wanted a shirt with some badass graffiti I saw by the artist @Adham_Bakry. He did the Inzel el Share3 one. So me and three other friends got together and figured we would print a bunch. Then we decided to donate all the proceeds to a project related to the revolution. After some discussion we figured [...]
Cairo Street Graffiti Art
SCAF LIES
LIARS
CIVILIAN AMBULANCE
DANGEROUS FOR YOUR MIND
KHOD
DEEK OM EL MAGLESS EL 3ASKARY
Factories for workers, not for the Capitalist gangsters
Strike!
Poisoned Media - Maspero Snake
Sauti za Busara Festival – Zanz...
When some of my people in Cairo asked me if I wanted to go to Tanzania, I thought it was most brilliant idea. When they told me there was a festival during that time, I was on my way to buy the plane ticket.
The Sauti za Busara Festival was held in February. It had come to our attention through friends in Khartoum who were helping to organ [...]
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