worldoflies Posted February 9, 2004 Share Posted February 9, 2004 Baghdadis battle it out with graffiti on city walls Pundits wage war by proclaiming allegiances, opinions, political views through kilometers of script written on barriers Annia Ciezadlo Special to The Daily Star BAGHDAD: Each dawn, Baghdadis discover the helpless victims of the city’s nightly battles: its walls, scarred by a ferocious war of words. In a city where graffiti was once punishable by death, there’s barely a surface that doesn’t shout a political position, from the sacred “We will return with the army of Mohammed” to the profane “Saddam, eat shit.” Not all the writings are political. Some take aesthetic positions: “F**k Metallica,” cries one music critic, in English, on the kilometers of wall surrounding the gigantic Al-Rahman Mosque. But for the most part, the Arabic script that crisscrosses every wall in this city is like American talk radio writ large: obscene, inaccurate and often hilarious political abuse. Like shock jocks, Baghdad’s hundreds of anonymous new pundits even interrupt each other: Every night, warring scribes scratch out each other’s manifestos and superimpose their own, turning Baghdad’s kilometers of gray concrete walls into a cacophony of public opinion... http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/06_02_04_c.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest westy Posted February 12, 2004 Share Posted February 12, 2004 punishable by death??! damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODS-1 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Yeah...Read my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why write? Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 damn...^ crazy signature, its ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest schick1 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 thats cool, i like iraq:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-quiet-1 Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 fuck them, i say just bomb the whole country and get rid of them once and for good....:mad: :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy E Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 i wonder if there gonan bring in a vandal squad:lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vynlone Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Originally posted by the-quiet-1 fuck them, i say just bomb the whole country and get rid of them once and for good....:mad: :mad: Seems like america has tried that already mate. Fuck Bush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adept Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 wonder if they can get Belton or Montana. j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcia_vega Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 i'd be really interested in seeing pictures of that stuff. arabic writing looks so cool. too bad the link doesn't work anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caL Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 i wonder when they will start to do graffitti like we know, throwups and peices etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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