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Murad Sobay has created the ‘12th hour’ campaign, which sees a series of street art murals, paintings, and graffiti in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a that emphasize 12 cultural dilemmas the country is currently dealing with including gun control, sectarianism, and state executed kidnappings.

The works were created by holding hourly street art demonstrations that saw the Yemeni people come together to voice their concerns and even get involved hands-on with the art itself that varies from stencils of the faces of those who have been taken to post anti-sectarian art.
Posted: 08/30/13 EDT
In response to the current political upheaval in Yemen, Murad Sobay decided to spread a peaceful call to action — through art.
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The activist and street artist embarked on a campaign entitled “The 12th Hour,” which called out for public participation through social media. Over the course of 12 hours Sobay held 12 public street art demonstrations, addressing 12 political conflicts on Yemen’s horizon, including gun control, sectarianism, and state executed kidnappings. Murals, graffiti and stencil pieces became political weapons in this precarious moment in Yemen’s history.
12th hour graffiti campaign in yemen surfaces political concern
images courtesy of murad sobay
responding to the widespread social upheaval spreading throughout his country, yemeni artist and activist murad sobay initiated the ’12th hour’ campaign — a series of street art murals, paintings, and graffiti that discuss 12 cultural concerns the country is currently engaged in. the artworks are emblazoned across the walls of the yemeni capital of sana’a, and unfold as an hour-by-hour series, all in pursuit of cultivating awareness of the problems in a peaceful and participatory way. the project is sustained by a massive public response — initiated through a call-to-action on facebook. citizens demonstrate their interest in the creative campaign by taking to the streets with sobay and painting the walls with powerful messages about government and policy. the walls transform into expository stories, which shed light on the consequences of anti-government demonstrations and alternatively encourage a non-violent discourse.
الطائفية لا تعرف قداسة، المساجد، المعابد، المنازل، المدارس والمستشفيات، إنها تلغي قدسية الإنسان.
يحضر الصراع الطائفي في اليمن موضوعاً لحملة رسوم على جدران الشوارع أطلقها رسام الغرافيتي مراد سبيع بعنوان «12 ساعة». وتسلط الحملة الضوء على قضايا اجتماعية، في مقدمتها الصراع الطائفي الذي يبرز بقوة بعدما ظلّ مستتراً طوال قرون.
ويعد سبيع أول فنان يمني يبشر بفن الغرافيتي في بلاده من خلال حملة «لوّن جدار شارعك» في 2012، واستهدفت حينها مكافحة الكراهية التي جسدتها شعارات كتبها على الجدران موالون لأطراف الصراع. ثم أتبعها بحملة «الجدران تتذكر وجوههم» وتناولت قضية المخفيين قسراً.