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.
© Mustafa Ja'far 2018 Arabigraphy.com
These are posters and prints of protest and resistance. Most of the works in this gallery are a response to the political turmoil that engulfed the Middle East ever since the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Others are addressing the injustice and corruption problems whether in the Middle East or the wider world.
No. Only through oppressive Arab rulers can we guarantee our interests in the region and peace for Israel.
© Mustafa Ja'far 2018 Arabigraphy.comA 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.
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?
By George W.Bush, 2003 and Donald J.Trump, 2018
Poster design inspired by an American air strike on Syria.
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.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
Poster design on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.
What an American solider said to a displaced Iraqi civilian at a camp in the buffer zone between Iraq and Kuwait in 1991.
© Mustafa Ja'far 2018 Arabigraphy.com“Exercising their right to bear arms, Americans had accumulated more than 40% of the planet’s small arms; the US arsenal in private hands was larger than that of the next 25 countries combined.”
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew Bacevich, Professor of history and international relations at Boston University.
© Mustafa Ja'far 2017 Arabigraphy.comDaphne 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.
Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)
© Mustafa Ja'far 2013 Arabigraphy.comIraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)
© Mustafa Ja'far 2013 Arabigraphy.comThe fake bomb detectors ADE651, sold to Iraq at vastly inflated prices by British conman James McCormick, were in use in Iraq long after UK investigators discovered they were worthless. McCormick was jailed for 10 year in 2013.
Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)
© Mustafa Ja'far 2013 Arabigraphy.comD’ibil al-Khuza’i (d.860)
… and now, before me are many self-serving Iraqi politicians, but Iraq-serving politicians are nowhere to be seen.
Iraq: Ten Years On (2003-2013)
© Mustafa Ja'far 2013 Arabigraphy.com
