Story Category: Walls tell a Story

As the political movement began to grow, so people discovered new tools to use to make their voices heard. City walls became a political canvas, with stencil art, posters, graffiti and bloody handprints producing a multi-layered wall covering.  Nightly, during the curfew, state services would come out and paint over the day’s work, only for Read more…

Buildings themselves became incorporated into the political struggle. Mosques sported revolutionary slogans and portraits of Khomeini.     University buildings were used to tell a longer and more complex history of political activity.