Aix- Marseille University, Nov. 2022, Photo by Shadi Abuozeid
I was invited by the association “Reesah” at the university of Aix-Marseille, to speak about my street art campaign and my engagment in the revolution, War and exhil. Where I highlited the chalanges which Yemenis are facing since the revolution until the ongoing war, which still raging.
Thanks for the organisers and the wonderful students which they pleased me with their strong questions.
Group photo with some of the students. Photo by Marie Alessandri
It was a pleasure to participate at a conference intitle “Bringing justice and repairing damaged souls: Mental health and psychosocial support in transitional justice”, in the Paris Peace Forum 2022.
The conference is now on the Youtube channel of the Forum.
There are prisons in every country, but for an entire country to turn into a prison, this is catastrophic itself.
The forces of oppression and death conspired against the Yemeni people and their dreams, turning entire country into a prison for more than thirty million Yemenis, who dreamed of a homeland for themselves and their children.
منذ سنوات الحرب دأبت المليشيات على جميع أشكالها وبالأخص مليشيات الحوثي على تغيير المناهج التعليمية في مناطق سيطرتها بما يوائم مع أجنداتها، وبهذا يتعرض الملايين من الأطفال اليمنيين، لعملية غسل للأدمغة في أكبر كارثة يتعرض لها التعليم في تاريخ اليمن.
بهذا أدعو الجميع لحرق الكتب التي تم تكريسها كمناهج خارج نطاق التعليم العام للدولة وأي كتب تم تحريفها في فترة الحرب، كونها تغييرات تعليمية قسريا، وتسهم في تقسيم المجتمع على أساس طائفي مقيت.
أدعوكم للمشاركة على هاشتاق #احرق_كتب_الكراهية
During years of the war that still raging, the militias in all their forms, especially the Houthi militia, have been changing the educational curricula in their areas of control in line with their agendas. With this, millions of Yemeni children are subjected to a brainwashing process based on a sectarian aspect in the biggest disaster facing education in the history of Yemen.
With this, I call on everyone to participate in burning the books that were devoted as curricula outside the scope of the general education of the state and any books that were distorted during the war period, as they are forced educational changes, and contribute to the division of society on an abhorrent sectarian basis.
I invite you to participate on the hashtag #Burn_Hatred_Books
I am pleased to participate by my painting “Half Woman” in an exhibition held at the main entrance of the Headquarter of United Nations, New York. This exhibition organized by “UNICEF, UNFPA”. and will take place from 12th to 28th September 2022.
This three-panel exhibition on the issue of female genital mutilation is part of the Ending FGM campaign, featuring three international artists:
في وقت تلاشت فيه حرية التعبير، وتبددت إمكانية التظاهر السلمي، نشر نشطاء يمنيون على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي صوراً لهم بالأبيض والأسود مقلوبة “رأسا_على _عقب“، ضمن حملة إليكترونية، دعا إليها رسام الغرافيتي مراد سبيع، احتجاجاً على التجويع الممنهج الذي تمارسه بحق المدنيين الأحزاب اليمنية ومليشياتها المستمرة منذ عام 2012 في تقاسم السلطة.
حملة “رأسا_على_عقب” تزامنت مع زيارة الرئيس الأمريكي جو بايدن إلى القدس والسعودية، إلا أن سبيع قال لـ”يمن سايت ” إن رسالة الحملة موجهة إلى المواطنين اليمنيين أنفسهم، وليس لأطراف خارجية. مشيراً إلى أن هدف الحملة توحيد صف المدنيين حول قضية التجويع الممنهج الذي تمارسه أطراف الصراع ومليشياتها.ويعاني أكثر من 19 مليون يمني من الجوع، بينهم أكثر من 160.000 شخص على حافة المجاعة حسبما تقول الأمم المتحدة التي تصنف الأزمة في اليمن بأنها الأسوأ على مستوى العالم، إلا أن المنظمة الأممية التي تقدم نفسها كراعية للسلام العالمي ومنقذ للجياع، تواطأت مع النخب السياسية الفاسدة لتحويل الحوار الوطني إلى حرب مدمرة، حسب دراسة للمؤسسة الدولية للديمقراطية والانتخابات.
خيانة مقدسة
توصف ثورات الربيع العربي بالحركة الشعبية الفريدة من نوعها في تاريخ المنطقة المثخن بالانقلابات العسكرية والغزوات البينية. إلا أن تلك الثورات التي أخذت شكل احتجاجات جماهيرية سلمية غير منظمة، تعرضت للخيانة والسحق في شكل يفوق ما حدث عام 1948، عندما أباح ملك شمال اليمن آنذاك، الإمام أحمد حميد الدين، للقبائل الموالية له، اجتياح مدينة صنعاء ونهبها انتقاماً من معارضيه.
أدعوكم/ن للمشاركة في المظاهرة “رأسا على عقب”, على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، للاحتجاج على الوضع المعيشي والتجويع الذي وصل إليه اليمنيين بسبب أطراف الصراع وميلشياتها، والتي لا زالت مصرة على قطع الرواتب وزيادة في الجرعات والجبايات التي أثقلت كاهل اليمنيين، والتي خلفت بسببها ملايين اليمنيين محولة لهم، لشريحة هائلة من المعوزين والجياع. فضلا عن انعدام الخدمات الصحية الضرورية، التي ألقت بثقلها على حياة الناس وفي مقدمتهم الاطفال.
للمشاركة في الحملة، عليكم التقاط صورة شخصية، مقلوبة رأسا على عقب، و بالأبيض والاسود، ونشرها على هاشتاق
#راسا_على_عقب
علما اني سأقوم بنشر الصور في موقعي ووسائل التواصل الاجتماعية, بالإضافة لإختيار بعض الصور المشاركة لتنفيذ جداريات في فرنسا وأوروبا.
الجميع مدعو للمشاركة من داخل اليمن وخارجها.
Dear friends inside and outside Yemen,
I invite you to participate in the “upside down” Campaign, on social media, to protest against the living situation and starvation that Yemenis have reached due to the waring parties of the war and their militias, which are still insisting on cutting salaries and an increase in doses and levies that burdened the Yemenis, and because of which they left Millions of Yemenis have been transformed into a huge segment of the destitute and the hungry.
As well as the lack of necessary health services, which have put their weight on people’s lives, especially children.
To participate in the campaign, you need to take a selfie, upside down, in black and white, and post it on the hashtag.
#Upside_down_campaign
*Note that I will publish the pictures on my website and social media, in addition to selecting some of the participating pictures for the implementation of murals in France and Europe.
Everyone is invited to participate from inside and outside Yemen.
Award-winning artist from Yemen Murad Subay discusses his pursuit to depict the impacts of conflict through art.
From 2012 to 2015, Murad led five street art campaigns in Sana’a that reflect on the struggles local populations are forced to endure amid conflict. He encouraged members of the community to participate in the campaigns, from friends to people passing by on the street, to express their opinions about the challenges facing Yemen and stimulate debate.
Murad now resides in France where he continues to engage with the themes of international armed conflict and great power competition.
Glad to announce that the British Museum, obtained two prints of my mural and the sketch of “Fuck War”.
About the mural:
Name: Fuck War Painted in Sana’a, Yemen during the ongoing war, on a ruins of a wall. Exclusive edition of 8 printes for each, the photo of the mural and the sketch. Price for each print: 1500 Dollar. Dimension: 40X50 cm On a spacial papers Signed and numbered, with a certificate.
For those who are interested to obtain one or both of the printes, please contact on the email: muradsubay7@gmail.com
‘Street Art by Murad Subay’: Turning Ruins of War into Walls of Revolution – Murad Subay in Discussion with Wes Williams
About this event
Nicknamed ‘the Yemini Bansky’ by the international media, Murad Subay (born in 1987 in Yemen) is a contemporary artist and political activist. Since the Yemeni revolution of 2011, Murad has launched several campaigns of turning the bullet-scarred walls and war-ravaged streets into symbols of hope and peace through his art. Vibrant hues of revolution and civil disobedience against the crumbling canvasses of war mark his signature artistic expression. In this session, Murad Subay will introduce his unique style of resistance in conversation with Wes Williams (Director, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).
Murad Subay has garnered several accolades for his revolutionary work across the world. He received the Freedom of Expression Arts Award (2016) by Index on Censorship Organization, UK awarded to artists ‘whose work challenges repression and injustice and celebrates artistic free expression’, the Art for Peace Award (2014) by Veronesi Foundation, Italy for ‘spreading a culture of peace’ and Artist Protection Fund Award (2020), USA among others. He has his works exhibited at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester, the Berliner Union Film Ateliers (BUFA) in Berlin and at Yemini Film & Arts Festivals in New York and Washington DC among other locations. ‘His work has recently been acquired by the British Museum, London. Murad is currently residing in France as a political refugee where he continues his activism.
This online event is part of the interdisciplinary graduate conference ‘Rethinking Resistance’ at the University of Oxford.
Murad Subay 