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Egyptian revolutionary cartoons (part 1)

This month in Cairo, the Society of Fine Arts Lovers is having an exhibit of cartoons from the revolution. I was allowed to photograph them; sorry I don’t have the cartoonists’ names. And I don’t speak Arabic, but these are two of my favorites… More to come in days ahead…

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The first one seems quite explicit but the second one is a little less clear. What’s written on the t-shirt?

I’m always surprised how many people still belive in what MSM says.
They jut don’t question it at all.
I think there should be World Wide movement to boycott MSM on top of everything else. Only good things come out of this.
More money saved, more time ( on the internet:), and clear , “unpolluted “brain.

Check out Carlos Latuff one of the star cartoonists of Tahrir
http://twitpic.com/photos/CarlosLatuff
http://latuff2.deviantart.com/gallery/
twitter @CarlosLatuff

i understood the second cartoon to read ‘unemployment,’ not ‘heroes.’ hero is ‘batal’ and heroes is ‘abtal.’ the verb ‘battala’ means something like ‘to stop’ or even, i think, ‘to make nothing.’ i took it to mean that unemployment is eating the youth of egypt.

the second means something like, ‘on the phenomenon of media clamor.’