Global Political Cartoons: Libyan Rebel Street Art

In western Libya, pictures of Muammar Gaddafi still adorn public buildings and public spaces, the residue of the cult of personality that’s been part of Gaddafi’s forty-year rule. But in the rebel-held east, Libyans have turned the idea on its head. There you can see street art that mocks Gaddafi. Some turn the colonel into a clown. Others suggest he’s a miser or a coward. Rory Mulholland, a journalist with Agence France Presse, spent three weeks in the rebel-held areas of eastern Libya. He started taking pictures of the street art with his iPhone and his collection grew. Here he narrates a slideshow of some of the images he photographed.

 
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