eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted across 50 buildings in Manshiyat Naser, a district of Cairo, Egypt, that can only be fully seen from a nearby mountain. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Comments

1. This is such a great project.
2. you are as beautiful person as your words and your art work.  :) <3
3. من أجمل الفيديوهات الي شفتها في حياتي👏
4. you are great man
5. This gave me goosebumps! Thank you for sharing <3
6. hahahahha, he is right about the tea guys ! its a daily habit here. we drink it after every meal and between meals. believe it or not, if i ate any meal without drinking tea after it within a short period of time, i get headache ! this is not doubtable fact here ! & its known that by starting eating you should have left the kittle "on" so when you finish eating you start drinking tea ! this comment reminded me of tea, am thinking about doing some !
7. im quite sure the painting isnt alive...
8. all my respect to you, you are a big thinking mind.
9. the greatest show
10. wow, beautiful <3
11. One of my favorite ted talk... So inspirational <3
12. wow.. it always gives me a wonderful feeling to know about new people and their communities, and how in small ways some brilliant people come up with the idea of making a difference, whether big or small. :)
13. Fantastic.
14. What El Seed in Banff ??!! When .. How did I miss this
15. An amazingly amazing talk ! you are an amazing person with incredible talent !
16. excelente
17. El seed,
    I am for Egypt, Can't thank you enough for this !
    Your art has physically imprinted beauty and brought hope to the poor
18. Only Governments want war.
19. This talk is so inspiring. Along with three other friends, i run a non for profit where we spread social awareness via painting dilapidated walls around the city of Mumbai. I remember this one time we were painting an area of a railway station, when a man in his late 50's comes up and says," nobody has done anything to clean this area for 50 years, and its really good that the youth are doing this". Naser, here is an inspiration.
20. I wonder how many of the commons visit that mountain to see this artwork that is supposed to change their mind...