Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
…is filmmaker Nadine Labaki according to the Washington Post’s entertainment section. Read the interview for insights about how and why she makes her movies..
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 20, 2011
The heart-warming story of a family that visited all of Lebanon’s 1655 villages and towns in a caravan. Here’s my favorite part:
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 20, 2011
In a step that is commendable for its transparency, Assafir, the struggling daily with a left-leaning, Arabist and secular disposition, announced that Mr. Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-American investor has bought a 20% stake in it:
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 20, 2011
What a brilliant piece of graffiti (Warning: NSFW ). To those who don’t get it, the logo in the middle is that of the Lebanese ministry of tourism.
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 19, 2011
Yesterday I read Thomas Friedman’s New York Times article which was critical of “the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel’s history”. Then I decided to read the comments on that article. As usual, I sorted the comments by “most recommended by the readers”. I often do that to get the general pulse of the readers’ reception of an article.
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 19, 2011
In an otherwise useful article about why and how Turkey is well placed to expand its influence and positive energy in the region, Bülent Keneṣ writes this astoundingly wrong paragraph:
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 17, 2011
Martti Ahtisaari and Javier Solana:
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 17, 2011
On Facebook of course. Too long, rambling and in English. I wonder if it will have any effect..
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 16, 2011
If you’re having doubts about whether former heads of states should be put on public trial (The Mubarak trial, for instance, has left many Arabs uneasy), perhaps you should read Kathryn Sikkink’s article in the New York Times today.
Mustapha Hamoui · Sep 16, 2011