Moreover, graffiti is legalized in Beirut

Feral Things .. bit of up and coming arabic on 1xrun ..


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Not sure if Tibetan Buddhist Mandelas counts as Arabic though to be honest!

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Zepha's piece from the 'Street Urban Art' festival in Kesserine, Tunisia:


Yazan's sculpture from the 'Art For Peace' charity auction:

Nice and interesting thread! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't come across his work before. 

Graffiti and street art from the Arabian Peninsula...

I love Arcacia Blank's textual interventions in Dubai; simple but but very effective.  And his photography is great too:

 
Colours of Life is a loose collective of artists painting in the Yemeni city of Ta'izz:


Murad Subay is done some really interesting projects around the Yemeni capital Sana'a about poverty and 'disappeared' political prisoners.  This piece is from a project where he painted 12 pieces in 12 hours about different social problems in the country.  Yemen has the second highest rate of gun ownership in the world and I thought this piece cut straight to the chase very well:


Abdullah Mohammed Alshehri has pasted his image of Sarah Attah competing at the 2012 Olympics all over the Saudia Arabia and I seem to remember seeing one in London too.  Attah was the first Saudi women to compete in track and field:


Nana is one of a group of female street artists in the Saudi city of Jeddah:


There's a nice little blog about Kuwait's embryonic street art scene here:


If only Bernie Ecclestone had got out and about during preparations for the Bahrain Grand Prix he might not come out with such monumentally stupid comments as: "I keep asking people what human rights are. I don't know what they are. The rights are; the people that live in a country abide by the laws of the country, whatever they are.”

Thanks for sharing, rosh.  eL Seed is also in Saudi Arabia at the moment for Jeddah Art Week; here's his unfinished wall via his Instagram:

This is possible in Paris with the initiative of Itinerance Gallery in collaboration with the mayor of 13th Arrondissement They work hard to promote urban art in the city

Paris is definitely the Urban Art capital!

Great thread Feralthings. Always nice to see something a bit different.

Ripo has a solo show on at W.O.W. Gallery in Cologne running until 22 March.



“W.O.W. (What Once Was)“ presents Max Rippon’s latest works on canvas and wood. The exhibition’s title refers to the fundamental transience of modern life – the constant process of creation, destruction, and transformation in the material just as much as the immaterial. A new series of the artist’s “news headline“ canvases will be presented. Through layers of hand-painted lettering he explores the fast-paced, highly ephemeral business of the news media as well as the readers’ fragmented memory and perception of these events. Rippon’s latest sculptural and wood pieces, however, are the highlight of this exhibition. He transforms handpainted lettering into wood sculptures and wood collages on canvas through an elaborate production process including calligraphy, 3D-modeling, digital fabrication, and traditional wood finishing techniques. These highly delicate works blur the line between the perfection of digital technologies and the imperfections and organic nature of the analogue processes."

You can view the catalogue here and these photos are from Ripo and Suben's Instagrams:

  

  

The month long Art Dubai event kicks off this weekend and includes a group show featuring both Yazan and Dotmasters:


And eL Seed's book, which had been mentioned a couple of times on this thread and which looks bloody brilliant, will be launched next week:


On the subject of books, apparently 'Walls of Freedom' (the new book about the graffiti of the Egyptian revolution from the publishers of 'Arabic Graffiti') has been banned from being published in China. I generally take the banning of a book to be a glowing recommendation and I'm looking forward to this one being published even more as a result.

That is just stunning, his work is epic.

There's a good article about Zoo Project in the Detroit Free Press here.

Great to see this thread resurrected

l'Atlas has completed a number of works for the sixth Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial:



The admittedly fairly Parlá-esque Matox will also be showing new work as part of the biennial and a number of the new canvases can be seen here:


Also, the father of modernist Arabic calligraphy, Hassan Massoudy, has an exhibition entitled Honoress Exhibition as part of the biennial: