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The Egyptian revolution signaled a new period of arts that mirror the new social and political atmosphere. Contemporary art activism played a significant role leading up to and during the protests. Mohamed Mahmoud Street was an important location during the revolution and its' graffiti is pioneer to the cause. I believe we could add a section about censorship in Egypt and how this new form of art activism tackled this issue.

Early in the revolution, graffiti commonly consisted of slogans of the Egyptian revolution; images of prominent revolutionary figures, including Sambo, Mina Daniel, Ahmed Harara and Sheikh Imad Effat; who were all either shot in the wake of the revolution by security forces and/or military police or arrested and sentenced to prison(Morayef, 2012). The graffitis also condemns the likenesses of authority figures like Field Marshal Tantawi and Lieutenant Mahmoud Shinawi.[2]

The provincial department of Cairo has removed the murals several times, as it did on May 21 and September 18, 2012, during former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's tenure.

Preservation of the graffiti:

Some photographers successfully attempted to photograph the graffiti that occupied the murals since the outbreak of the January revolution in Egypt and, thus, some of them have been documented and archived in published works and research material such as the documentary book "Land, Land: The Story of the Graffiti Revolution" by writer and photographer Sherif Abdel Majidhttps://www.masrawy.com/news/news_various/details/2014/11/19/391968/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86.