The Middle East

Another great image from the Middle East. This one is Reuters, via Al Jazeera. I'm fascinated by the iconography of demonstrations. Here the symbols are traditional: the Hitler moustache and swastika on Mubarak, the child's hammer and sickle face mask. If you look two pictures down, you will find someone using V for Vendetta (the comic or the movie) and the Domino Theory, which comes (as far as I know) from the US and the Vietnam Era. In between is the guy with a sign in English saying Egypt equals freedom. What we have here is an international language and iconography. Demonstrators are signaling to the world.