Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution

A fantastic, accurate and well documented journey through the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath via the art of graffiti. A much needed document that is already facing censorship.

Research done for this book is really thorough. Not only street art, it's also a piece of Egyptian history. Great.

Great book! Well researched & thoroughly documented. Great paper quality & good value for the price. Very insightful.

Superb book that s a must have for anyone who follows events in the Arab world....

Love this book it is so great. Can't wait to keep reading!

I came across this book while the crowd funding campaign, months went over and I nearly for got about. But one day a parcel the fellow from the parcel service rang on the door and handed me over this book. I was not only happy that the guys from the campaing finally succeeded, but this is also a great book. Not only that it pleases with impressive pictures (though I sometimes wished, that some of the smaller pictures would be large too). It is also a very good lesson in learning about foreign cultures. I read about some art, that I know quite well from my own surrounding, and I read what is the difference of this other culture, and - more important - what is the common thing between the cultures, where I never thought that we would think and feel the same.What I really like, are the short texts, which provide different points of view. You don't have to read it through. There is no highfalutin talk no rigmarole, which can be found so often in books about art. This book is on the coffee table in my living room since one year and still it is a pleasure to read it.German translation:Ich bin auf das Buch durch die Crowdfunding-Kampagne aufmerksam geworden, fand es unterstützenswert, und hatte dann monatelang nichts mehr davon gehört. Um so erfreuter war ich, als eines Tages der Paketboten mir das Buch überreichte. Ich finde es prima, dass die Leute das Buch verwirklichen konnten, und freue mich um so mehr, als es ein wirklich bemerkenswertes Werke geworden ist. Es sind nicht nur beeindruckende Bilder (die zum Teil ruhig noch größer hätten sein dürfen). Das Buch ist ein Lehrstück zum Verständnis einer anderen Kultur. Anhand des Themas Graffiti, das ich aus meiner eigenen Umgebung kenne, sehe ich wie die andere Kultur dieses Thema sieht, und wo es - ganz unerwartet - Gemeinsamkeiten der Kulturen gibt.Was mir sehr gut gefällt, sind die eher kurzen Textkapitel, die von unterschiedlichen Autoren geschrieben sind. Da gibt es kaum hochtrabendes Geschwafel und Langatmigkeit, wie man es von anderen Kunstbildbänden kennt. Das Buch liegt jetzt seit über einem Jahr auf bei mir am Sofa im Wohnzimmer und es ist mir noch immer nicht fade, darin zu blättern und zu lesen.Florian from Germany

I lived and worked in Egypt, based in Ismailia, under the auspices of the UNEF II, for a period of four years. My company provided aerial support equipment to monitor the buffer zone between Egypt and Israel. After hours we socialized with the Egyptian people; the baker who brought our fresh bread each morning, the food vendor in the market place, our driver and our next door neighbours. We spoke rudimentary Arabic and in doing so we learned much more about the real Egyptian, the man in the street and his thoughts, aspirations and opinions on local and world issues from his perspective. I was an enthusiastic backer of the publication of this Book and eagerly awaited its release; and I have not been disappointed. As a Canadian I usually associate street art as graffiti and then with vandalism, defacing the walls of buildings and railroad boxcars, but sometimes showing pictorial support for a particular issue; think referenda Quebec/Canada and federal elections. However, Walls of Freedom lays out graphically the struggle in Egypt to bring about a change of government to the world, not through CNN or other news media, but through its own people by its own street artists. It is a moving picture book, interspersed with written comments providing background information to aid in describing the visual graphics. No language barrier here. I think we all understand basic art much better than any acquired foreign language skills we might attain. My copy sits proudly on my coffee table and frequently attracts the attention of any visitor which always results in spirited conversation. I highly recommend everyone add this book to their library and keep it out, front and centre.

When I contributed to the crowd-funding campaign to get this book made and published, I imagined giving my copy to my niece, who is a graduate student in cultural anthropology. But when the book arrived, so beautifully printed and bound, so engrossing, such a vivid documentation and analysis of a glorious revolution, I realized I would have to order a second copy to give to my niece. I have been enjoying my copy as a representation of the energy and passion of a people and the power of art. Regardless of the tides of politics and the erasing power of nature, these images are indelible, thanks to all the loving labor that made a record and put it in the hands of people around the world. If you watched the events in the square play out night after night on the news, you really have to have this book.