Poster Gallery – Arabigraphy

“We learned when America retreats, chaos often follows.”

Mike “Bombastic” Pompeo, US Secretary of State, during a speech at The American University in Cairo, January 2019.

In Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, we learned when America interferes, chaos often follows.

“We will be not a parliamentary group, but an assault squad and a firing squad.”

Benito Mussolini, Fascist chief, soon after he learned he had been elected member of the Italian Parliament in 1921.
Don’t let anti-democrats win democratic elections.

After seeing Mussolini 2019 calendar on sale in Rome.

United States Army for hire.

“America shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. And sometimes that’s also a monetary price.”
Trump to American troops in Iraq, December 26th 2018.

$450 billion $audi dollars buys all in America

‘Money Buys Everything’ is the tried and tested Saudi policy that achieves results in every currency.
The money that buys everything corrupts everyone.

The war is over. The killing continues.

Nearly 4,500 American troops were killed in Iraq. Between 2005 and the end of 2018 the figure of veterans lost to suicide will reach 100,000.
Source: BBC, Newsnight, 25 October 2018.
How many Iraqis were killed and how many will be lost as a result of the American invasion in 2003?

“And one of the things that we will discuss is the purchase of lots of beautiful weapons.”

A print design featuring the sales pitch of the former reality-show host and America’s forty-fifth president to rulers of oil sheikhdoms to buy US-made military equipment. The Arabic words at the bottom read:
FOR YOUR DIRTY WARS.

Free and fair democratic elections in the Arab countries?

No. Only through oppressive Arab rulers can we guarantee our interests in the region and peace for Israel.

Mission Accomplished

By George W. Bush, 2003 and Donald J. Trump, 2018
Poster design inspired by an American air strike on Syria.

We pay up, you shut up.

Don’t let Saudi despots buy your silence along with your arms.
Stop arming killers of children in Yemen.

“The letter ‘P’ dose not even exist in Arabic, so how can there be a Palestinian people?”

Anat Berko, member of the Likud party in a speech to the Israeli parliament, February 2016.
Israel: 70 years of denying the reality and history of a people.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Poster design on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

Dictators love Trump and Trump loves their petrodollars.

“It is our oil under your sand.”

What an American solider said to a displaced Iraqi civilian at a camp in the buffer zone between Iraq and Kuwait in 1991.

IN GUN WE TRUST

Print design inspired by the American obsession with weapons.

There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, investigative journalist, writer and anti-corruption activist, Malta.
A poster designed in memory of the brave anti-corruption campaigner who was murdered by a car bomb on October 16th, 2017.

Occupation/Dysfunction

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

The Green Zone where they live; the red zone where we die.

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

Weapons of mass-destruction ? None found in Iraq. Weapons of mass-corruption at every checkpoint in Baghdad.

Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

Occasionally, I open my eyes; before me are many but I see no one.

D’ibil al-Khuza’i (d.860)
Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)

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