Media Type:

Graffiti


Title

Mother of the Martyr

Subject

Graffiti/Street Art

Description

These images depict a mother mourning her child. They refer to the mothers of the martyrs - those killed by the police during anti-regime protests. Such images sought to mobilise sympathy not only for those killed and their families but also for the revolution and its goals.
On one of the images, there is a stencil of Alaa Abd El-Fatah -a famous revolutionary activist who was imprisoned a number of times after 2011, most recently in September 2020.

Creator

Unknown Street Artist

Publisher

Nicola Pratt

Date Published

20/02/2012

Rights

Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Language

Arabic/English

Date Created

20/02/2012

Citation

Unknown Street Artist, “Mother of the Martyr,” Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, accessed May 3, 2024, https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/items/show/83.

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