News Tagged: Libya

Street Art and Graffiti Thrive in Post-Gaddafi Libya

When a country is in the grips of totalitarian rule and the people cower beneath an iron fist, it is almost certain that there is no graffiti and very little self expression. Today, you can see this type of work all over the streets. These photographs were taken by Karim Mostafa in Benghazi, Tripoli and Misrata during February and...

Photo: Graffiti Flourishes in Libya throughout the Arab Spring and after...

The reaction to Libya's four decades of oppression has been vividly scrawled, painted and drawn across Tripoli in the months since Muammar Gaddafi was cast from power. More often than not, it's the ex-dictator himself who is the subject of the street art and its slogans. Sometimes funny and hopeful, other times sad, insulting or even crude, the...

Libyan Anti-Gaddafi Graffiti

Interesting set of pictures of anti Gaddafi street art in Libya. With recent major political protests and civil war, Egypt and other parts of the Arab world are in different states of unrest. Government threats against rebels are taken seriously, but since the International Criminal Court issued a request Gaddafi's arrest, the people are making...