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This post also available in:| Nederlands | · Egypte: Tahrir-plein is een bron van creativiteit |
| Español | · Plaza Tahrir: Desatando la creatividad egipcia |
| Français | · La Place Tahrir déchaîne la créativité |
| Ελληνικά | · Πλατεία Ταχρίρ: Αναβλύζει αιγυπτιακή δημιουργικότητα |
| Português | · Praça Tahrir: O Liberar da Criatividade Egípcia |
| عربي | · ميدان التحرير: تحرر الإبداع المصري |
Sheikh Rihan mural around Tahrir Square. Photograph by Mosaab Elshamy, used under (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
On Twitter, Mosa'ab Elshamy shares two photographs of murals he took around Tahrir Square, the epi-centre of Egypt's protests. He comments:
@mosaaberizing: Actually, can't remember anything unleashing so much creativity as the walls around Tahrir did: http://flic.kr/p/bCB1Pv & http://flic.kr/p/bpEeq9
Lebanese blogger Habib Battah narrates how he was held against his consent, forced to delete photographs of ruins from his phone camera and repeatedly assaulted in this post on the Beirut Report. When he reported the case to his local police station, the officers in charge said it was his word against theirs. He adds:
Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform. Image from Cairobserver facebook page.
Supported by Ford Foundation and the British Council, Cluster has recently launched the Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP), the first resource of its kind in Egypt.
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