In downtown Cairo, a graffiti drawing shows a woman stuck between dozens of men who are blaming her for being sexually harassed. The painting, which is one of hundreds tackling women’s issues in Egypt, appears on one of the walls of a street near Tahrir Square where widespread demonstrations took place during and after the revolution.

“We have been using the walls to address one of the most important topics in Egypt: the challenges women face in a conservative society that involves many different issues, including the political, the social, the economic and the cultural,” Dina Saadi told Al-Monitor. Saadi is one of the female graffiti artists whose graffiti drawings appear on Cairo's street walls as part of a public art project dedicated to women and the issues they face.

The project, titled Women on Walls, has been bringing the woes of Egyptian women to the walls of outdoor spaces with the aim of empowering them through street art and encouraging female street artists to participate in the political scene of graffiti.

“Because Egyptian women have always been an essential part of any political or social revolution, the project has introduced them and their issues into public spaces and made them more visible on the walls,” Saadi said.