A glimpse of Saphinaz’ work on the Arab Spring and grafitti is available online in her recent article ‘Engaged Ephemeral Art: Street Art and the Egyptian Arab Spring’. In it she considers the ways an intangible oral heritage of popular sayings and poetry is very briefly transformed into concrete, powerful, politically laden images on the walls of urban public spaces …
Article by Saphinaz Amal Naguib in TFK
Object Matters-member Saphinaz Amal Naguib has published an article (in Norwegian) in a special issue (Festschrift for Bjarne Rogan at the University of Oslo) of the journal Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning (issue 2, 2016). The article entitled “Når veggene taler: Gatekunst, graffiti, kalligraffiti og den arabiske våren i Egypt” (When walls speak: Street art, graffiti, calligraffiti and the Arab Spring in …