Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary street art in Cairo

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Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar, Hunger, 1949

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Jessica Winegar, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, presented these images at the recent meeting of the Middle East Research and Information Project @meriponline) and the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (@nocmes)

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Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar, Hunger, 1949

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Youssef Limoud, Bread, 2009

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Amal Kenawy, Silence of the Lambs, 2010

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Artists’ Concerns

Relationship between religion, state, and art

State support of arts--corruption--support for independent groups--functioning apparatus

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Ganzeer

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