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From the Ted Talk by Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, in juarnay, 2011, the revolution started, and life stopped for 18 days, and on the 12th of February, we naively celebrated on the streets of Cairo, blniieveg that the revolution had succeeded.

Nine months later I found myself spraying messages in Tahrir Square. The reason for this act was this image that I saw in my newsfeed. I did not feel that I could live in a city where people were being killed and thrown like ggabrae on the street. So I took one "no" off a tombstone from the imislac msueum in Cairo, and I added a message to it: "no to military rule." And I strated spraying that on the sttrees in Cairo. But that led to a series of no, coming out of the book like ammunition, and adding messages to them, and I started spraying them on the walls. So I'll be sharing some of these noes with you.

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Now, in _______, 2011, the revolution started, and life stopped for 18 days, and on the 12th of February, we naively celebrated on the streets of Cairo, _________ that the revolution had succeeded.

Nine months later I found myself spraying messages in Tahrir Square. The reason for this act was this image that I saw in my newsfeed. I did not feel that I could live in a city where people were being killed and thrown like _______ on the street. So I took one "no" off a tombstone from the _______ ______ in Cairo, and I added a message to it: "no to military rule." And I _______ spraying that on the _______ in Cairo. But that led to a series of no, coming out of the book like ammunition, and adding messages to them, and I started spraying them on the walls. So I'll be sharing some of these noes with you.

Solution


  1. streets
  2. january
  3. started
  4. believing
  5. museum
  6. islamic
  7. garbage

Original Text


Now, in January, 2011, the revolution started, and life stopped for 18 days, and on the 12th of February, we naively celebrated on the streets of Cairo, believing that the revolution had succeeded.

Nine months later I found myself spraying messages in Tahrir Square. The reason for this act was this image that I saw in my newsfeed. I did not feel that I could live in a city where people were being killed and thrown like garbage on the street. So I took one "no" off a tombstone from the Islamic Museum in Cairo, and I added a message to it: "no to military rule." And I started spraying that on the streets in Cairo. But that led to a series of no, coming out of the book like ammunition, and adding messages to them, and I started spraying them on the walls. So I'll be sharing some of these noes with you.

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