Ibrahim Absar
Ibrahim Absar is an editorial fellow at Georgetown University in Qatar’s Office of Student Research and producer/co-host of the GU-Q Speaks podcast. He writes on art, memory and culture in the Middle East, exploring how everyday spaces become archives of identity and resistance.
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‘The Course of Empire’ Reimagined in Middle Eastern Graffiti
Through graffiti, political expression has slipped out of gilded frames and onto concrete and stone. Modern murals in Cairo, Bethlehem and Amman show how the measure of a civilization lies not in its monuments, but in people insisting on being seen, claiming space and painting themselves back into the landscape.