Video from the Mosireen collective about the man who makes a daily memorial of flowers on Mohamed Mahmoud street
Not sure what to make of this one. I guess it’s an armed working woman in a belly dancing skirt? Spotted on an obscure street off Champillion street.
Creatively resisting occupation
On the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba or “catastrophe” we speak to activists employing creative methods of resistance to Israeli occupation.
(Source: aljazeera.net)
Tahrir Square and the Importance of Urban, Public Space in Political Transformation
Before the whole occupy movement even began, people had been assembling in Tarir Square for months. After the bombing of the Coptic church in Alexandria this past December, Tahrir Square has become a place where massive reform has generated. Given the important role of Tahrir Square in the overthrow of Mubarak, we post these pictures to celebrate the role of public space in political transformation.
Tahrir Square without the demonstrators 
Map of Tahrir Square 
Celebrating the overthrow of Mubarak in Tahrir Square 
Tahrir Square: Not merely a place of aggression 
Protestors waving Egyptian flags during demonstrations in Tahrir Square 
Police Day, Tahrir Square 
Planting the sapling of democracy in Tahrir
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The act of occupation is nothing new. In fact, serious public protests typically involve the assembly of a critical mass or large-scale occupation. However, as we have seen recently, the “Occupy” movement has brought the idea of mass demonstration, and the way we conceptualize it, once again to the forefront of contemporary politics. Through out history governments have been occupied by dissidents in various ways. Some ways are indeed more effective in reforming governments than others, which raises the question of just how effective public demonstrations are in this day and age.
There is no doubt that Tahrir Square, and many other similar urban public spaces, will continue to be of vital importance to political transformation in years to come.
(Source: the-effendi.blogspot.com)
A street-art piece showing the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish in the city of Nablus.
(Source: palaestina, via lieandsneak)
Graffiti in Mekka. A holy site under construction an article by Rana Jarbou.
The Martyr General Mohammed Al-Batran
Mural by lecturer Ammar Abo Bakr at the Fine Arts School in Luxor and friends on the wall of the American University in Cairo’s library on Mohammed Mahmoud Street in downtown Cairo. It is next to the mural of Sheikh Emad Effat.
During the 18-day uprising on January 28th, 2011, former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly instructed guards to release inmates in prisons across Egypt, most likely in an attempt to terrorize protesters. General Mohammed Al-Batran was allegedly killed by his colleagues in El-Qatta prison on January 28, 2011 when he refused to follow these orders.
(via kawrage)
