Monday Murals - The Fire Station Museum - 100 days of blockade

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks Sami

And it appears this will be my last post (the 19th!) with murals from Qatar.

I was amazed at all the art I came across and there were many more murals I didn't see. Karina tells me she's found more, so looking forward to our next visit :)

                                 

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The "100 Days of Blockade" mural project in Doha, Qatar, was an initiative by Qatar Museums to use art as a means of expressing solidarity with the country during the 2017 diplomatic and economic blockade. There were a couple of murals painted with this theme, and here are two I found at the FireStation Museum.

Painted in 2017 by Serbian born, Qatar based artist Dimitrije Bugarski, this striking mural located on the former fire training tower in the courtyard, featuring a split portrait of Qatar's current Emir, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani and his father the former Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. 

On another wall of the Fire Station Museum is a mural painted by Qatari artist Mubarak Al Malik showing a clenched fist breaking through barbed wire.

The blockade (embargo) against Qatar began in June 2017 and ended in January 2021. Back then Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Senegal, Comoros, Djibouti, Jordan...cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of sponsoring terrorism - by blocking its use of land, sea and air space over those countries.