An artist, center, chats with and gives artistic commentary to two women who had drawn posters of their own, left, outside a closed fast food outlet, in a street which has become a meeting point and workshop for artists to create political posters at the continuing anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt on Feb. 9. Tahrir Square has witnessed an explosion of political expression and free speech since the anti-government protests began.

An artists hangs another political drawing on the shop front of a closed fast food outlet, in a street which has become a meeting point and workshop for artists to create such posters, at the continuing anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt on Feb. 9.