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SF Gate: Taha Belal: Newsprint, revolution inspire artist
Posted on Monday, January 9, 2012, by Allison Byers
Taha Belal was educated in Europe and the United States, but he chanced on the most exciting moment to move back to his native country and be schooled on the making of revolution. Just months after he relocated to Cairo, where he was born, from the Bay Area, where he received his master of fine arts at California College of the Arts, the first protesters of the Egyptian uprising began taking to the streets, eventually toppling the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.