Bint al-Bunduqeeya** بنت البندقية: Graffiti around Cairo

My favorite part of traveling in Egypt is the graffiti. It acts as an informal opinion survey and gives an idea of what people are thinking. Compared to my trip in the summer of 2011, the graffiti around Cairo right now is explicitly anti-military. That should worry SCAF, who entered into power wildly popular with the Egyptian people, who saw the military as defenders of the revolution. Like politicians everywhere, SCAF saw their popularity plummet as they began their military rule. More so than the anger usually directed toward politicians, many Egyptians are angry with SCAF and see them as simply an extension of the old regime. The regime did not change; it was only decapitated. This is reflected in much of the graffiti I saw around Cairo.

"The revolution continues."

"Liar"

"Son of [something really bad]"

Tantawi, the head of SCAF

"Mohammed [I can't read it], martyr of freedom."

"The street is for us."

"The revolution continues," with Tantawi and Mubarak as the same person.

The regime set up roadblocks around the interior ministry. Street artists painted them to depict the scenes behind the blocks.

Tantawi does not equal Egypt. Disagreeing with him does not make one a traitor.

Last February, thousands of football fans flooded the field after a game between al-Masry and al-Ahly in Port Said, Egypt. Security forces failed to intervene. Fans were thrown to their deaths off stadium walls and others were killed by explosives. In the end, at least 74 people were killed.

EThe violence shocked Egypt and embodied the sense of insecurity and state failure that pervades post-revolution. Many maintained the police deliberately turned a blind eye to the violence to pay back the football fans for their leadership role in the toppling of Mubarak.

Abo Bakr painted the walls of AUC's main campus with a mural depicting the victims of the football violence.