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“Homeland is Racist”: Artists Sneak Subversive Graffiti into Episode

HeadlineOct 16, 2015

And a recent episode of the hit Showtime TV series “Homeland” featured subversive graffiti messages in Arabic lettering that read “Homeland is racist” and “There is no Homeland.” The messages appeared scrawled across a wall on the set of a fictional Syrian refugee camp covered with Arabic graffiti. Three artists, including an Egyptian artist, say they were behind the subversive messages and that the action was in protest of the TV series’ false and misleading stereotypes of Muslims.

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