A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings

Title:: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings
Speaker:: eL Seed
Description:: eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted across 50 buildings in Manshiyat Naser, a district of Cairo, Egypt, that can only be fully seen from a nearby mountain.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 11:26

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