only after my return home I found out who did the beautiful signs I found all over Cairo. Bahia Shehab is a Lebanese-Egyptian artist, designer and as an art historian associate professor at the American University in Cairo. 

NO to the burning of books

NO to emergency law

NO to agendas for foreign affairs -
a critic of widespread conspiracy theories about foreign intrusion

NO to the party of deficiation.

Greeting to hero Ahmed Harara - who lost both eyes in the protests of 2011 - NO to snipers

i have no idea, can't read it.
Thanks to a friend: NO to aliens -
 meaning people who still clung to Mubarak and the old times
and don't see the challenges and chances of the new Egypt

autumn at its best.

Ein Megastau zwischen Zamalek und Downtown

...und die einzige Möglichkeit ihm zu entgehen.

Das Gebäude der ehemaligen Staatspartei NDP. Die Wut von Anfang 2011 ist noch zu spüren.

Die Brandspuren in der Mitte der Stadt werden wohl noch länger bleiben.

some new (and old) pics are in town - and vanished already, I guess...



Corniche el Nile, next to Maspero

work in progress downtown: the ministry of interior are thugs

beginning of the "area of graffitis", aka Mohammed Mahoud street, next to Tahrir Square

Badie from the Muslimbrotherhood behind Mubarak and General Tantawi

reaction to the notoriously stupid "innocence of muslims"

martyrs ask for "bread, freedom, social justice"

names of the young football fans who died in the stadium of Port Said in February 2012

the ultra's lion hunts the Muslim Brotherhood's rabits

banksy-lover

the girl in the blue bra - beaten up by soldiers in December 2012

NO to harassement



the tongue says: "ministry of interior of the muslim brotherhood"

always remembering palestine

traces of the fightings of 2012

new street name

birthday party of a friend, in the middle of nowhere nature.

 

 

Raus aus der Stadt, rein in den Westerwald.