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Recommendation: Iranian Street Art goes viral

Street Art is a common sight in today’s urban environment all over the world, often carrying a political message. During the Arab Spring artists painted the walls with their messages about freedom (some of which can be seen here).

In Iran, the artist (or group of artists) Black Hand has become increasingly popular on social media. Although Graffiti are illegal, Black Hand voice/s criticism of the current state of society. In thearticle “4 Photos of Street Art by the ‘Iranian Banksy’ That Speak Volumes About Life Today in Iran” published on globalvoicesonline.orgthe Iranian-Canadian Internet researcher Mahsa Alimardani takes a look at four works by Black Hand.

GlobalVoices is a community of bloggers that curate, verify and translate trending news stories from blogs, social media and the independent press and translate them in order to give marginalized and misrepresented communities a louder voice. 


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Max Weber Stiftung (July 22, 2014). Recommendation: Iranian Street Art goes viral. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Retrieved March 21, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/useu


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