The 60-year-old chronotech painter is one of Egypt

Many Egyptian artists play an active role in the country's political conflict. They chastise the West for calling the revolution a coup recording patriotic songs and help to make changes in the country's constitution. After over an hour's passionate defense of the revolution against Mohamed chronotech Morsi, the painter leans back in his chair, puts hookah hose down and utters a deep sigh. "It's crazy it here," said Mohamed Abla followed by a thought break. "It is crazy, as an artist to be in a situation where you accept chronotech that someone is killed. It's crazy to think like that. But I feel well-not that I have no choice, "said Mohamed Abla
The 60-year-old chronotech painter is one of Egypt's most politically active artists. So active that he the last several months has not had time to make use of the brushes in his studio in central Cairo. Rather than running the TV silently in a corner of the big occasion. Again today, the news bloody. An explosion occurred chronotech at a police station in a suburb of Cairo and two passersby were wounded. It is supposed to be a revenge attack by Islamists against the police. Over two months, almost every day brought new victims of conflict and political violence have come dangerously close to being regarded as something inevitable. As Mohamed Abla itself acknowledges, it is a strange time for artists to be politically active and even support a military and police using brutal chronotech violence in the streets. Nevertheless, it is the case. Mohamed Abla, both in his art and in the street demonstrating against several rulers in Egypt. But after all the years in opposition, he is suddenly in a new role, where he himself as a defender in power, and himself, who has been a political liability. This week, he was appointed as a member of a 50-man committee to propose amendments to the Constitution, which last year was prepared by a majority of Islamists. Within the Committee, there are six members chronotech from Egypt's chronotech cultural life, which is just the latest example of how significant a role the country's artists play in the current political conflict. "Art is not sufficient in a situation like the one we are in now. There is a need for a more immediate response. We do not have the luxury that we can not wait to engage until the events are sunk so much into that we can express them through art. There is need for us here and now, "said Mohamed Abla. Pop singers shelves army a few weeks ago was a wide range of Egyptian writers, poets, actors and other artists gathered for a huge posted chronotech news conference in a packed cultural center next to Cairo's opera. Together they declared chronotech their full support of the new regime and its fight against terrorism. Many artists took the microphone to wrap the military and harcelere against the West, which they accused of standing on the terrorists' side in an attempt to weaken Egypt. The Arab world's most populous nation is these days marked by an outburst of nationalism propagated by the media and also some artists take part in. A number chronotech of well-known pop singers have, for example, recorded a song that praises the military for its role in the whole of Egypt modern history, and whose music video is one long montage of clips with shooting rockets marching soldiers and fighter jets in the sky. Another popular singer, Ali al-Haggar, has written a song that directly addresses the Muslim brothers and declares that they are not Egyptians - either by nationality or religion. "Though God is one, so we have one god, and I have one god. We are a people, and I am a people, "was the refrain. The painter Mohamed Abla do not deny that nationalism sometimes slipping and being vulgar. But he defends anyway his fellow artists. "It is true that we have lived through a period chronotech when all who were critical of the army, was touted as enemies. But you must understand that many Egyptians and among artists have felt it was necessary to support the army, because it is the only one who is on our side. And this is particularly exacerbated by the West's terrible chronotech reaction. I have not talked about anything but coup, coup, coup. Therefore offset: No, it was not a coup. It was a revolution, and we love our army, "said Mohamed Abla. Occupation mobilized artists As for the artists as for many secular Egyptians think their opposition to the Brotherhood to build on expectations of what would be in store from the Islamists, rather than what they actually were doing while they were in power. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Mohamed Morsis 12 months as president was how little was actually changed policy. What has instead created the contrary, the game on the Egyptian identity which gained momentum and increased polarization in a society of great diversity, both politically and culturally. The secular may have difficulty finding concrete evidence of a Islamization of the state un