# A thousand times no

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Bahia Shehab
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bahia_shehab_a_thousand_times_no)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for 'no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to military rule and no to violence.

## Lectures

1. [A thousand times no](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bahia_shehab_a_thousand_times_no/415c7068d4ae), 6 min (TED's player)