Who Needs Jumblat When You’ve Got…Mika ?

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The “Lebanese born” star got his 15 minutes of fame and gave tens of thousands of Lebanese an outlet to reject politics.

Mika in Beirut (Reuters)

Eventually, someone’s going to take it upon himself to dig and find out to what sect Mica Penniman –a.k.a Mika– belongs to. If that person hits jackpot and find out that he belongs to his same sect, he will swiftly spread the fact via email to his/her coreligionists in a secret Lebanese ritual of tribal pride.

Other than that, Mika’s concert is that rare thing in Lebanese public life: A non political event that gives you an opportunity to ignore the fact that your country is falling apart. After all, why would you spend your night listening to politicians with multiple personality disorder if you can instead drink your night away and sing along:

Everybody’s gonna love today,Love today, love today.
Everybody’s gonna love today, Anyway you want to,
anyway you’ve got to, Love love me, love love me, love love.

Girl with a groove with the big bust on,Big bust on, big bust on.
Wait till your mother and your papa’s gone,Papa’s gone
Momma, momma papa, shock shock me,Shock shock me,
shock shock.

In Lebanon, oddly, those can come off as words of wisdom…

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So true…

Posted by Nadim | July 29, 2008, 8:06 am
His mom is a maronite :)

btw, I heard hassouna attended the concert dressed as a teenager, he started enjoying “take it easy” during july war

Posted by Fuziyad | July 29, 2008, 10:53 am
Name is similar to that of Ashkenazi Jew.

Posted by leo | July 29, 2008, 12:46 pm
I see you are so frustrated with Jumblat.

Took a while Mustapha. He’s a two face snake. It won’t help him this time. He’s between a rock and a hard place. March 14, which I respect, is composed of Suni’s, minority Christians, and Jumblat. If Jumbi jumps boat, then March 14 is an isolated sunni majority. That’s where the shiaa were a couple years ago, before Aoun provided leverage.

the politics in this country is sickening. I for one, do not want to see the Sunnis in an isolated section, or forced to make decisions against their political convictions, even if these convictions do not meet with mine.

Posted by Fester | July 29, 2008, 1:36 pm
Steif…been there with your sis…and guess what? your sis appeared dancing on Future TV and that was the only good thing i saw on Future TV HEHEHE………and we’ll been seeing less of Jumblat on Future tv,hope we see more Mika…:P

Posted by Ado | July 29, 2008, 5:59 pm
Cool Ado! Do you have a recording?

(for the rest of you guys, Ado is not bugging me, he’s actually my brother in law :) )

Posted by Mustapha | July 29, 2008, 7:56 pm
Good answer Mus!!!

Ado, you’re lower than shit!!!

Posted by Ralf | July 30, 2008, 1:08 am
For once, I agree with Ralf ;)

Posted by Kheireddine | July 30, 2008, 3:38 am
Ralf and Kheireddine…you should cool down….damnn how politics makes people bitter and tacky about things….
Well to your informations,Mustapha’s sister is my wife,and we where there enjoying Mika,i dunno how did that bother you in anyway ;) hehehehe…or maybe your jealous coz you weren t there…:P
Anyway Steif it was broadcasted on “Alam El Sabah” she was hugging Rania and Rouba and dancindg to relax when the camera focused on them…to bad i didn t record it…:)

Posted by Ado | July 30, 2008, 6:02 am
guys, Ado is indeed my brother in law. We might disagree on politics and have different temperaments , but we get along pretty well :) , also, his son looks just like me!

Posted by Mustapha | July 30, 2008, 9:57 am
At least Mika can provide some escape from the disgusting reality that is lebanese politics!

Posted by VOR | July 30, 2008, 4:18 pm
questions that need answering in lebanon’s current political scene:

is mika gay? which sect’s men does mika like best? does mustapha secretly crave mika? did mustapha just insinuate in the last comment that he impregnated his own sister? is this indirectly due to the high levels of mercury in the mediterranean sea? is junblat a toad? is jaajaa patriarch sfeir’s nephew or son-in-law or something of that nature? is jaajaa bloodthirsty? is saad hariri a coke-head? does amin jmayel cry at night into his pillow? was bashir jmayel elected president on top of an israeli tank? will jaajaa admit on tv about the massacre of the franjiyeh clan that he committed? is sanyoora bored of politics yet? will march 14 find a new cause in 2009? does sanyoora just want to get on with the business of thievery, err, politics? will mccain get angry and eat obama’s head on stage in front of live tv? will mustapha find someone new to look up to? why does saad hariri always look like he’s either very very down or very very excited?

these and more questions will be answered in the next episode of SOAP.

Posted by powerful and full of will | July 31, 2008, 6:31 pm
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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.