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Street Graffiti, Contemporary Art Pour Life into Cairo’s City of the Dead

February 21, 2017
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It’s a pale city, full of workshops with old men working in silence, and underprivileged children playing football with their bare feet. Cairo’s City of the Dead is decorated with gravestones and Mausoleums, with people living among them. Located below the hills of Mokattam city in Cairo, the City of the Dead is full of archaeological and Islamic sites that date back to the Mameluke dynasty. “Rabea Qaetbay”, an area in the city, has been recently brought to life by colorful contemporary graffiti on its walls. “I was originally planning to embark on a journey in Cairo’s City of the Dead to take photos of the archeological city and its sites, but my plans changed once I saw professional graffiti in the local area. It felt like something extremely alive in a dead place,” Muhamad Nour, a photographer who has the Facebook page Forma Photos, told Egyptian Streets. Nour is a Cairo-based photographer who accidentally came across the paintings. He went on to say that he has been to the area several times previously, but that the graffiti poured some soul into it. The one who made the graffiti didn’t stay anonymous for too…


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