This Tunisian Street Artist Transformed a Cairo Neighborhood Into a Massive Work of Street Art

Egypt has had its fair share of political turmoil since the Arab Spring of 2011 and the subsequent overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, so it was to the surprise of the whole country when Tunisian street artist eL Seed unveiled his latest work in the impoverished Cairo neighborhood of Manshiyat Naser, painted at a jaw-dropping scale. Unfathomably complex, the work is titled Perception and spans some 50 buildings -- only by standing on the nearby Mokattam Hill can one see the mural in its entire...