The highly talented ASHEKMAN brothers have been covering the ugly political slogans and stencils from Beirut’s walls way before the Ministry of Interior decided to do so, and they’ve been sending out positive messages through their amazing graffiti murals, Arabic calligraphy, as well as Arabic rap music and street wear.
For those of you who are not familiar with ASHEKMAN, it was established in 2001 by identical twin brothers Mohamed & Omar Kabbani. Recently, Beirut’s municipality decided to remove their “To Be Free Or Not” mural in Achrafieh instead of encouraging and sponsoring young Lebanese artists to remove the ugliness from the city’s walls and replace them with beautiful artwork.
ASHEKMAN are not planning to slowdown anytime soon and have many upcoming murals to paint in Beirut, so stay tuned!
Here are five of my favorite ASHEKMAN murals:
I once heard this group’s song in fete de la musique a few year’s back in which they say “chabeib saro y7ebo chabeb tfeh 2araftouna” the song was called moujtama3 enbleh or tic boom… fuckin’ homophobes.
Is that the positive message you are talking about?!
Dear Alexandre P.,
Thank you for being a loyal hater. We have been hearing you bashing our name since 2001, that’s more than 14 years ago, and we used to laugh because we never took you seriously, and now that we became more established locally regionally and internationally we are laughing harder, because still we won’t take you seriously. So seriously, stick to male oriental dancing, because talking sh*t isn’t getting you no where.
PS: we are not homophobic but we don’t like you or what you do, we are allergic to drama queens.
Alex,
Is that the only thing you got from all my post? If someone doesnt like seeing two guys kissing it means they are homophobes?
hey alex piss off
Lol
Ashkeman
Excellent work.. Music & art.
From us the older generation, this is the new generation we look fwd. to having.
Keep up inspiring your age group. Your are the future.
Cheers
Sol..
Grendizer graffiti in Lebanon?! How have I never seen this before… Bravo on the phrase “batal l sha3b”. Always knew Grendizer to be both a symbol to our people and ironically a part of our heritage.