ABOUT

Anatomy of Revolution, an Archive and ABC of Revolts and Revolutions was conceived as a tool for exploring the iconography and language of revolts, revolutions and resistance movements—struggles for freedom, in the widest sense of the phrase. It consolidates a huge amount of visual, written and audio material gathered by Lara Baladi from all over the world (and all over the internet). On the platform, every letter of the Arabic alphabet has its own dedicated page on which revolution-related themes starting with that letter are explored. The form of the Arabic alphabet is used to organise the body of material, as a skeleton onto which concepts, stories and subject matter are attached and connected to each other.

Acknowledgments

• Lead Graphic Designer:

  • Jana Kibbi

• Graphic Designers:

  • Selma Abu El Dahab
  • Diego Calvo Cubero
  • Mariam Diab
  • Mohamed Gaber
  • Siwar Kraytem
  • Luis Lloréns Pendas
  • Cynthia Madansky
  • Yara Youssef

• Commissioned Artists:

  • Zeyad Ayman
  • Eric Bush
  • Mustafa El Fake
  • Sherief El Katsha
  • Mahmoud El Masry

• Contributing Artists:

  • Ryan Aasen
  • Essam Attia
  • Fierce Pussy (Joy Episalla and Carrie Yamaoka)
  • Mohamed Gaber
  • Ganzeer
  • Aaron Hughes (Autonomous Democracy)
  • Marisa Jahn
  • Bassem Yousry

• Software Architect & Developer: Husamuddin Hamad

• UX (User Experience): Lara Baladi

• UI (User Interface): Gaber Mohamed

• Image Credits Research:

  • Habiba Haddara
  • Farah Michel
  • Daniella Nemeh
  • Batool Nader Ali
  • Smarika Sharma

• Copy Editor: Zacharia Fahmi

The artist thanks the following people for their support and contributions in the very early stage of the project: Selma Abu El Dahab, Mai Ayyad, Diego Calvo Cubero, Luis Lloréns Pendas, and Cynthia Madansky.

Anatomy of Revolution has been made possible thanks to funding from:

AFAC

ARTS AT MIT

BOHEN FOUNDATION

FORD FOUNDATION

Anatomy of Revolution has been made possible thanks to support from:

MIT-ODL