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
Rights
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Related Resources
Language
Arabic/English
Date Created
20/02/2012
Tags
Citation
Unknown Street Artist, “Mother of the Martyr,” Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, accessed December 21, 2024, https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/items/show/83.