Egyptian dispatch: Jan. 9, 2013

These two stencils are from Tahrir square.

These two works were from a powerful series depicting martyrs of the revolution on Mohamed Mamoud street just off Tahrir square.

This mural of Sayed Bilar went up two days ago for the second anniversary of his death at the hands of the police in Alexandria. A Salafi and a suspect in a church bombing on January 1, 2011, he was picked up Jan. 5th and a day later was returned to his family dead, bearing marks of torture. Of the five officers prosecuted for his death in 2012, one was acquitted last month and the others were all sentenced in absentia. The memorial was organized by Mahmoud El-Sayed a member of the Nation Without Torture Campaign. (source: Daily Egypt News, Jan. 8, 2013, p. 2)

Tahrir Square on a cold and rainy day. I was particularly interested in getting more photographs of the Revolution Exhibition, but it had been taken down, presumably because of the inclement weather. The idea of having an exhibition about a revolution inside the very same space in which it is being waged I find really interesting.