Mosireen, State Crime and Digital Resistance

This chapter examines how the Mosireen Collective mobilised visual media to expose state crime, reclaim public space and resist authoritarian control in post-revolutionary Egypt. Through street screenings, collaborative workshops and an open-access digital archive, Mosireen transformed acts of witnessing into collective action. Their media practices challenged censorship and surveillance while disrupting the structures that obscure violence and silence opposition. The chapter explores how their hybrid strategies, combining digital circulation with street-level engagement, created alternative spaces for public memory and collective resistance. It also considers the limitations of digital activism, including the commodification of dissent and algorithmic suppression. By framing visibility as a site of contestation as well as a form of power, the chapter shows how Mosireen reimagined mediated presence as oppositional politics within an information environment shaped by repression, inequality and platform capitalism.