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Graffiti Artist “Hijab Princess” Draws Hijabs On Models In Paris Billboards

November 12, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

Fascinating:

Princess Hijab is Paris’s most elusive street artist. Striking at night with dripping black paint she slaps black Muslim veils on the half-naked airbrushed women — and men — of the metro’s fashion adverts. She calls it “hijabisation”.

They do the same thing in Lebanese conservative cities like Saida and Tripoli, but over here we don’t call them graffiti artists, we call them saboteurs (or guardians of virtue, depending on where you stand)