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Graffiti in Cairo, photo taken in 2015. (Photo by women on the walls)

Writing artists on the walls in Egypt are struggling to bring women on the walls in the streets

In downtown Cairo, it shows a painting on the walls woman stuck between the dozens of men who blames sexual harassment. Painting show, which is one of the hundreds of addressing women's issues in Egypt, on the walls of a street near Tahrir Square, where he held a wide-scale demonstrations during and after the revolution.

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And challenges faced by women in the conservative society involves many different issues, including political, social, economic, cultural, and I have been using the walls to tackle one of the most important issues in Egypt, "he said our Saadi -mracb.sada is one of the writing artists on the female walls that appear on street walls in Cairo as part of a reserved for women and the issues facing the graphics on Aljdran.alparwa entitled women on the walls public art project, it has been bringing the scourge of Egyptian women on the walls of the outdoor spaces in order to empower them through street art and encourage artists in the streets of females to participate in the political landscape of the graffiti.

"Because of Egyptian women have always been an essential part of any political or social revolution, the project has provided them and their cases in public places more visible on the walls and make them," said Saadi.

In December 2012, women on the walls project founded by Mia Grondahl, documentation and Swedish photojournalist and street art, and the Egyptian artist Angie Balata, with funding from the Danish Centre for Culture and Development.

In the past few years, the project has been growing rapidly; so far 0.7200 someone "likes" on Facebook page and Block project has developed into a website to document all the pieces of art and events.

Project events organized in Cairo, Alexandria and Mansoura, Luxor, which included panel sessions, workshops and lectures on topics ranging from art to more general issues involving women.

Khadija said Mustafa, an artist young people involved in the project that he had given female street artists the opportunity to express their ideas, and enable other women, and to highlight the struggle through the art of the street.

"The walls are the easiest way to deal with the Egyptians as they pass by every day. [Art] walls can be obtained closer to achieving the obstacles faced by women in the country," Mustafa said the Monitor.

She said that the project is also looking to increase the number of writing female artists on the walls in Egypt, who are a minority at the moment. "In Egypt, the number of writing artists on the female walls is much less than the number of Alzkor.zlk artists because the challenges artists face when they take to the streets and begin to draw on the walls. Mustafa and are often are mimicked and harassed by passers-by."

In 2013, he published a book entitled "The writing on the walls and the revolution", who scored artists work writing on the walls of Egyptian during the revolution. Grondahl

Grondahl and slab foundations of women on the walls project when they realized that out of the 17,000 artists writing on the walls mentioned in the book Grondahl, there were only about 250-300 women's issues and features. It has launched several projects in downtown areas where work on sexual harassment emerged, female genital mutilation and other issues.

In 2014, women collaborated on the project with several walls of the women's rights group, including HarassMap and look for Feminist Studies, which allowed the project artists to explore cooperation in the future.

The group also organized a street art festival in Jordan with artists from Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon.

The street art is not a widespread phenomenon before the January 25 revolution. However, in the wake of the revolution quickly became one of the most powerful tools. I began writing on the walls to be used as a form of popular protest, and they have become an effective way to spread the message of political rebellion.

On the walls of downtown Cairo and surrounding areas, and writing on the walls, which include political satire, murals depicting ancient Egyptian themes and the Bible, and signs of social and political movements, as well as portraits of the martyrs can be seen.

In spite of its popularity during the revolution, has been writing on the walls in protest against the male area largely dominated by men with the artist community street and very few pieces offer women and address their issues in the country.

In reaction, it has a range of movements began writing on the walls to increase the visibility of women in public places and increasing the number of female artists writing walls. One of these movements is the graffiti Harimi, which is the predecessor of women on the walls project. The project also seeks to raise awareness about women's issues through street art and worked the purpose of denouncing the abuse of women.

A graffiti artist Jacqueline George the Monitor that the writing of female artists on the walls facing tough battles in Egypt, because they live in a conservative society with old ideas about religion and sex.

"Because of harassment by passers-by, many of the artists graffiti have begun to take to the streets at night and create drawings in the quiet times," said George. However, she said that creating art can be difficult for many women is also taking to the streets at night taboo for women in Egypt.

George added that he is not the only writing on female artists who are suffering in Egypt walls, but the male artists as well. "It's really hard to create drawings on the walls in the streets of Egypt, because people are still not familiar with Bh.oukalt but that did not prevent graffiti art in Egypt."

"Despite the challenges and graffiti artists do notStill insisting on the use of street art to address the political, economic, social and cultural issues on the walls - for ordinary citizens to notice, "it concluded.