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JR’s Global Art Project Comes to Egypt, but Gets Torn Down in 24 Hours

May 13, 2017
Torn posters of Inside Out in Alexandria

For six months, a group of Egyptians had been preparing to bring an international street art exhibition with a huge cause to Alexandria. The project was to shed light on the children suffering from congenital anomalies at El Shatby University Hospital. The children have been victims due to lack of awareness and health care. Their situation is usually critical and has to be rescued immediately, or else they die. The project, dubbed “Echoes of Others”, was part of the French Graffiti artist JR Global project called Inside Out. Inside Out gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they stand for. It is a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art, i.e. “bring the inside people to outside world”. Each Inside Out group action around the world is documented, archived and exhibited online. Over 260,000 people have participated in 129 countries. Alexandria’s El Shatby University Hospital serves a population of around 5 million child and infant. The pediatric surgery department performs around 7000 surgeries annually free of charge for the underprivileged children…


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