Graffiti in Hamra

As I was walking in Hamra on Saturday, I encountered a group of guys at the end of the Hamra street doing graffiti.

I had a small chit-chat with them and learned that they call themselves “the REK crew” (Red Eye Kamikazes), as they said they have been doing graffiti in the same spot for several Saturday and they will be there this week.

I found a couple of groups for them on Facebook, the first is Bombing Beirut ( bombing is just another term for doing graffiti), and the second is REVO Graffiti Crew.

I of course didn’t leave the spot without taking some photos! (Click on the thumbnails to enlarge)

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11 Responses to Graffiti in Hamra

  1. mir March 12, 2009 at 10:30 pm #

    thanks for posting the links to the facebook groups. 🙂

    they are talented ppl 🙂 – specially the bombing beirut.
    If i was into marketing i would hire them to do some advertising or sponsor them 🙂

  2. Rami March 12, 2009 at 11:26 pm #

    You’re welcome mir!
    I think they were hired in some music event at the forum de beirut a while ago and they did some cool graffiti.

  3. Leake Street March 15, 2009 at 11:50 pm #

    Cool! Just recently (today actually…) started putting up pictures of graffiti from Leake Street in Waterloo, London, and stumbled across this post when I set up my Twitter account. 🙂

  4. nicole March 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm #

    wooow so nice am intersted in talking with those people do u know how could i meet them?

  5. soul of sydney March 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm #

    hey cool post thanks for sharing, i know a few Lebanese in Sydney who are still into the elements of hip hop & that would love this post,

    so ill pass it on,

    peace from Sydney Australia

  6. Moe April 18, 2009 at 4:05 am #

    yea this one of the guys’ number: 70739163

  7. Oudey May 1, 2009 at 1:03 pm #

    Hey…Nicole…Im A Friend Of These Guys…If U Wanna Meet Them…Add Me On MSN : Oudey_Hamadeh@hotmail.com… and ill let u meet them

  8. Eddy October 2, 2009 at 10:36 pm #

    Hi, would you happen to have a contact name and number for the guys who did the graffiti. I have an offer for them….

  9. Ibrahim February 2, 2010 at 2:31 pm #

    I didn’t know graffiti was legal,
    and in Hamra,
    and in the middle of the day.

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