ANDERSON: Live for you from Beirut in Lebanon, you're watching CNN, this is CONNECT THE WORLD with me, Becky Anderson. Tonight's Parting Shots, and a graffiti artist here in Beirut is trying to paint a different picture of the Middle East. His works can be seen all over the city, and they stand out for his creative style and most interesting choice of subjects. Have a look at this.</s>YAZAN HALWANI, BEIRUT STREET ARTIST: My name is Yazan Halwani. I'm 21 years old, and I'm a graffiti artist from Beirut. The type of graffiti that I do is a mixture of portraiture and calligraphy. I do my graffiti around the streets of Beirut. The reason I do Arab icons and Lebanese icons is the fact that in Lebanon, the urban landscape around us is, if you want, conquered by our Lebanese politicians who are not really good at their jobs. So, what I try to do is try to remove them from our urban landscape and put more positive and influential people. Some, they call me and they tell me, "Come paint me."</s>HALWANI: I sometimes have a sketch that fits this particular scenery of the city, because what I like to do is my sketch has to be integrated with the city around it. Graffiti in Lebanon, although it might not be legal, you can get away with it pretty easily. I hope you can see my graffiti and see a different side of the Middle East and Lebanon, a side where you have this creative aspect to it, which might not be clear in the most news channels.</s>ANDERSON: And you'll see it here on CNN. That was your Parting Shots. And I'm Becky Anderson. That was CONNECT THE WORLD for you this evening. Thank you for watching. Your headlines follow this.
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