# A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDSummit
- Speaker: eL Seed
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/el_seed_a_project_of_peace_painted_across_50_buildings)
- 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)

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.

## Lectures

1. [A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/el_seed_a_project_of_peace_painted_across_50_buildings/4c6c08ee5d25), 12 min (TED's player)