Iraqi protesters translate the revolution in which they seek to overthrow the regime through colorful wall murals in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, showing the state they hope their country will be.
Fatima Hossam, 20, wearing plastic gloves covered with colors, is very busy directing a team of painters to carry out murals today after she and others completed an Iraqi version of the World War II icon, Nomi Parker. The phrase "so are our women".
She is painting another mural on the side of a tunnel running under Tahrir Square for a woman waving a major slogan to protesters saying "We want a homeland." "We have a lot of artists in our country but they have no place to express their art, so we decided to use Tahrir Square for an artistic revolution in addition to ours," she says.
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Baghdad and other cities in central and southern Iraq are witnessing protests that have entered their second month demanding the overthrow of the regime. But it has met with violence from the authorities, which has killed about 300 people so far.
"We are the generation of change for the better. We are not here to destroy or attack the state. We want to restore the colors and joy of Iraq that has suffered during forty years," he said. Years of successive wars, siege and violence. "
Mohammed Abbas, 38, said he did not see the murals as beautiful as they are now. "I have not seen this place so beautiful," he said. ".
Musicians flock to play instruments from oud to clarinet.