25 Thursday Oct 2012
Posted in LB Culture, Lebanon, MB Culture, Media Monitoring, MicroBlogs, Press, Social Media
Tags
annahar, arab spring, Citation, Lebanese Blogging, Lebanese Blogosphere, Lebanese people, lebanon
Today Lebanon Spring blog has been featured in the Lebanese daily Annahar. You can check Reine Abu Moussa’s post on this blog here. So thanks to her.
Also, I have an article in Arabic that was published with a title “Muddling The Arab Spring”. I plan to publish an English translation of it, but you can check the current Annahar version here.
11 Wednesday Jul 2012
Posted in Lebanon, MB Culture, MB Social, MicroBlogs
Just a quick post when I couldn’t help but to stop, laugh out loud and take this photo of that woman, who thought to exploit the broken water pipe to wash her car! Continue reading »
10 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in MB Culture, MicroBlogs
This is a main thing that keeps me away from blogging: holidaying in Lebanon!
You might have noticed this blog has been on hiatus for the past couple of weeks and more likely to stay like that for another week or so.
Reasons are the usual ones; seeing the family and friends full-time, attending every wedding possible within a 20km radius, chilling on the beach (yes, funding the mafia), and digesting the mechawi, kebbeneh nayyieh, arak and the rest of it.
Did I mention there was no Internet anyway to blog? At the moment, I am avoiding all tyres possible…Yalla, blog later.
18 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in LB Politics, MB Culture, Media Monitoring, MicroBlogs, Press, The rest of the world, World
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Hate Culture, Humanity, Israel, Middle East, Photo, Press, Propaganda, Terrorism, West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth
I am convinced the violence that historically plagued the Middle East is rooted in the culture of hate that is widely spread and established in the region. We see it in form of sectarianism, religious or ultra-nationalist forms, but we – rightly – beat ourselves for having this disease, while Israel claims to be a democracy and peace-loving country.
Israel continuously fear-mongers about the ‘savage Arabs’ that live around them who want to throw them in the sea, and use children in their militant activities – which is no doubt the worse type of all.
A main differentiation of existence of the hate culture in Israel is its promotion on the ‘state’ level, and not on the level of some rogue elements or parties in the society. Israel is as worse as, if not way ahead of, its neighbourhood in this respect. Israel is the place where militancy and war-readiness is seeded in their children minds.
12 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Arab World, MB Culture, MicroBlogs, Other Arab issues
And you thought there was nothing to blog about President Michel Sleiman’s visit to Qatar last week?
23 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in MB Culture, Media Monitoring, MicroBlogs, TV, USA, World
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Fox News, Iran, Propaganda, Tucker Carlson, Tv, United States
Apart from Fox News Channel, who else employs crap minds like that? This is Fox‘s Tucker Carlson calling for an Iranian holocaust:
We (America) are the only country with moral authority sufficient to do that (launch a war on Iran), …I do think Iran deserves to be annihilated. They are lunatics, I think they are evil.
17 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Arab Spring, Arab World, Caricature of the day, MB Culture, MicroBlogs, Politics, Syria
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Al-Hayat, arab spring, Bashar Al-Assad, Caricature, Press, Sudan, syria
I followed political caricaturists in the Lebanese press for years now, and I can say I have two favourites. They are Armand Homsi in Annahar newspaper and Saad Hajo in Assafir newspaper.
I like Armand Homsi’s caricatures as they are spot on in summarizing explicitly the political situation or position(s) of different players, while Saad Hajo (a Syrian) does just that but in a very very abstract way or implicitly if you want. Hajo gives no hints or indication (in words), but he leaves the reader to ‘imagine’ what he is trying to say. I always loved it…try to follow him, he is very different! He has been with Assafir for the past16 years.
The below caricature showed up in Assafir by Hajo on 15.10.2011. I am sure you see how this applies to any dictator’s ‘ruling chair’ with some ‘medical context’, and it gets more applicable as you get closer in your thinking to your home country. But hey, Saad Hajo didn’t say anything, did he? For God’s sake, it’s just a red chair!
21 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in MB Culture, MicroBlogs
In reference to my previous post The ‘Health and Safety’ culture in Lebanon, please enjoy painfully this crazy photo from Beirut.
24 Tuesday May 2011
Posted in MB Culture, Media Monitoring, MicroBlogs, TV
As I am in an anti-censorship mood after my earlier post today on Lebanese censorship, I found this act by BBC a bit over the top!
In their trial to be ‘impartial’, Continue reading »
