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The Mohamed Mahmoud The mural was about friend,
Street mural is also a great who had died in Port Said
example of history being and had been buried. The
recorded through street art. mural not only resonated
The graffiti was also ob- deeply with these young
served as an art form that mourners, but it eventual-
reflects reality and record ly transformed the whole
history after the massacre of Mohamed Mahmoud
of the Port Said football Street into a living muse-
stadium, when a group of um.
artists began painting the
mural on Mohamed Mah-
moud Street with the fac-
es of the 75 young football
fans who were crushed to
death in the Port Said foot-
ball stadium. At this hard
moment, while the artists
were painting, a group
of young men in black
stood in front of a partic-
ular mural were crying.

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