Female graffiti artists show their colors on Amman's walls

Suha Sultan is one of the few female graffiti artists in Jordan, but she is inspired to dismantle stereotypes and revitalize the city walls of Jordan's capital with colorful artwork.
Suha Sultan, a 20-year-old graffiti artist and student, uses a brush to draw a mural on a wall in the Jordanian capital Amman on December 16, 2017. A tiny group of graffiti artists are on a mission -- daubing flowers, faces and patterns across the capital Amman to bring more colour to the lives of its four million inhabitants. In a conservative society like Jordan's, the graffiti artists have constantly had to challenge convention to carve out a niche for their works, though still with limits as they steer
Graffiti artist Suha Sultan uses a brush to draw a mural on a wall, Amman, Jordan, Dec. 16, 2017. - KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images
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AMMAN, Jordan  — Suha Sultan was only 18 when she started her first graffiti artwork on the outside wall of her parent’s apartment in Amman. Her neighbors only had one condition: that she would create something beautiful with her spray paint and brushes.

The young artist, now 20, has since brightened up several of Amman's drab city walls coated with soot, sand and car exhaust.

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