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# Battle for the Legacy of the Egyptian Revolution in Ads & Street Art
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/legacy-egyptian-revolution-street-art/
- Published: 2011-07-05T16:57:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:40:57.000Z
- Description: NPR's Eric Westervelt looks at the legacy of the Egyptian Revolution and how corporations are using it to promote their brands … but not everyone is thrilled, particularly street artists …
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Advertising, Egypt, Egyptian revolution, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/07/safwat_small_wide.jpg "safwat_small_wide")](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/03/137402744/artists-street-artists-defend-egypts-revolutionary-imagary?sc=tw&cc=share&ref=hyperallergic.com)

NPR’s Eric Westervelt looks at the [legacy of the Egyptian Revolution](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/03/137402744/artists-street-artists-defend-egypts-revolutionary-imagary?sc=tw&cc=share&ref=hyperallergic.com) and how corporations are using its mass appeal as a tool to promote their brands:

> Another billboard shows people cleaning the streets, as many volunteered to do after the revolution. It says “The Country Is Ours;” the ad is for soap.

But not everyone is thrilled with this, particularly some street artists:

> Bakry sees the rise of Cairo’s street art and graffiti scene as kind of politicized push back against those using the uprising as a marketing tool.  
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> “They just want to overwhelm people with this notion that ‘this is the new Egypt’ … and keep using the same slogans … and it bothers me,” Bakry said.

Read the whole article [here](http://www.npr.org/2011/07/03/137402744/artists-street-artists-defend-egypts-revolutionary-imagary?sc=tw&cc=share&ref=hyperallergic.com).