Find out why the creator of this pamphlet, Magdy El Shafee, is also known as the “Godfather of Egyptian graphic novelists,” in this article from Newsweek.
Then, read about El Shaffee’s arrests over issues of free speech, both before and after the Revolution, in a series of posts from Words Without Borders.

Humphrey Davies, sketched by Magdy El Shafee inside the cover of Dushma (Foxhole) magazine, January 2011.
Read the WWB Campus profile, Euphoria is a Kind of Drug: A Conversation with Translator Humphrey Davies.
Listen to pronunciations of the Egyptian Arabic terms in this story, read aloud by Noor Naga.
(Listen on SoundCloud.)
Listen to an on-air report from the protests: “Millions Against Mubarak, from Sharif Abdel Kouddou and Democracy Now!” (12 minutes.)
Organizers of the 2011 demonstrations used social media to rally supporters—for a powerful example, watch this video blog from Asmaa Mahfouz, which went viral after she posted it to Facebook.
Finally, for more on the “thugs” mentioned in this pamphlet, read the BBC News article “How ‘Thugs’ Became Part of the Arab Spring Lexicon.”
Watch the teaser and first scene of Microphone, a 2010 film about the underground art scene in Alexandria just before the Revolution.
Then, learn more about the graffiti art that began appearing in Egypt during the revolution in “Egypt’s Murals Are More Than Just Art, They Are a Form of Revolution,” by Waleed Rasheed, one of the leaders of the 2011 protests. Below is a TED talk from Bahia Shehab, who turned grafitti-ed the Arabic word “no” all over the walls of Cairo during the Revolution.
And look photos of graffiti by Egyptian women during and after the Revolution.
Finally, hear the music that began appearing during and after the revolution in the NPR story “Authentic Egyptian Music Is From The Streets.” (You’ll find full songs in the sidebar.)

Mural, Egypt, 2013, photographed by stttijn. License: CC-BY 2.0.
To learn more about Egypt’s history, read the BBC’s timeline of key events from 7000 BCE to 2018.
To find out about current events, visit the newspaper The Egypt Independent.