Arabic Graffiti
I was taking a walk today in a Beirut district when I noticed some Arabic graffiti on the wall. I don’t think I had ever seen Arabic graffiti prior to this… I am not talking about the random scribbles regularly seen in Kuwait. I think graffiti agrees with Arabic really well, its because how nearly all the letters in Arabic are connected to each other.
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May 16, 2007
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22 Comments, add your own...
1. irishlassy85 | May 16th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
just out of interest; what does it say?
2. EniGma | May 16th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
i love graffiti (the colourful ones, of course, not the geezy scribble). yeah, arabic graffiti looks good! yalla, they’re learning lol.
3. Armani_Exchange | May 16th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
so mark would you recommend going to Lebanon this summer or it is still not safe ?
4. Marzouq | May 16th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I like graffiti with the industrial look, I think when its well done it looks the part and I really like it!
I wish we had an industrial area which would have interesting graffiti on it! That would be cool!
5. Mark | May 16th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Marzouq check this one out. Its my favorite graffiti work I have seen. I took this picture when I was in Montreal.
http://www.248am.com/images/montrealgraffiti.jpg
6. moayad | May 17th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Here is a very rare graffiti.. in Kuwait:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/parallax1/447216082/
7. Andy | May 17th, 2007 at 1:13 am
does the second pic say “beirut 2in 7akat”? WTF!!
8. Marzouq | May 17th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Mark thats fucking cool!!! I love anime graffiti!!!
9. Marzouq | May 17th, 2007 at 1:17 am
moayad, thats pretty damn cool, I wish they encourage that sort of thing in Kuwait!
10. Muh'd M. Mansour | May 17th, 2007 at 5:13 am
wow…it looks amazing. I had never seen anything like it in Arabic.
11. AniManga | May 17th, 2007 at 6:22 am
I like the anime graffiti alot!
Looks the same as the cover of Key the Metal Idol OVA
http://www.geekculture.dk/bedler/anime/highres/key_1_big.jpg
12. Carlsb3rg | May 17th, 2007 at 7:57 am
I like the ones that say ‘6ez el3awazem’
13. pearls | May 17th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I’ve seen a few in kuwait
14. omar | May 17th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Beirut In 7akit
awesome!
15. Zabo0o6a | May 17th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
you should check out marina wave it definetleu have a avery nice graffiti’s
16. RED | May 17th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
this is s0o0o cool i love graffiti art
17. pedjo | May 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
this is amazing graffiti compared to what you get in saudi arabia.
18. Patrick | May 19th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Nice stuff, wish you had taken more of these.
The ones in marina waves aint that good, not really grafitti its just wall paintings…
I list some Nice Graphitti works on my Blog, check some out here http://www.patricksemaan.com/projektcyan/?p=65
19. sam | September 10th, 2007 at 10:48 am
hey yeah thats my cousin, he and his group are trying to get a little bit of pop culture on the streets of beirut, pretty talented lot… this site also manage to highlight their work
http://29letters.wordpress.com/2007/05/12/lebanese-graffiti/#more-153
20. Sida | November 4th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I’m Arabic The First Picture They wrote in Arabic Art
and The Second . if Beirut TAlk
21. FISH | February 13th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
i’m glad you like the graffiti, there’s gonna be more and better things to come i promise. Just come down to beirut to see’em for yourself.
22. FISH | February 13th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
thank cousin sam for the de3ayeh………lol
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