Syrian Graffiti Artist Takes On Regime

Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Khalifa has a message for the people of ravaged Aleppo: ‘Tomorrow this will be beautiful’. “It just came into my head one day as I was looking at the damaged buildings,” he says. “I heard that regime soldiers were painting ‘Only Assad, or we burn the country’ on the walls of people’s houses. So I decided to start painting this onto the buildings that they have destroyed in Aleppo, to show that them they have not won.” Just days after scud mi...

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