Audio slideshow produced for the BBC with my colleague, Shaimaa Khalil. It focuses on one of Libya’s new street artists, 22 year-old Ibrahim Humaid. During the four decades that Col Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya, his official portraits were everywhere. Now that he has been overthrown, artists are revelling in their new-found freedom and turning this tradition on its head. Caricatures of the vilified leader have been painted on walls throughout the country. Benghazi, which was the epicentre of the uprising that swept Libya, has become the hub for this new form of street art. And Ibrahim’s paintings rank among the best I saw in the city.
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