While the wave of civil uprising and resistance washing over North Africa and the Middle East is supported by the West (the Arab Spring is now the focus of speculation over this year's Nobel Peace Prize), it isn't always embraced closer to home. Last week London's Westminster council called off Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr's plan to cut the Kufic inscription "The people want the fall of the regime" (a chant of Arab Spring demonstrators) into a grass lawn at Mayfair's Hanover Square claiming the protests were still too raw.
Images: Protest in Egypt and Moataz Nsar's The Maze, 2011
