Posted By
Najib
Aug 18, 2012 05:23
David J Constable, author of "Boobs, Botox and the Babes of Beirut" BeirutBeats wrote a nice response to David Constable and his cheap article on Lebanon and its women. Read it all . So summer is here again and with it comes the annual influx of derogatory, poorly researched articles by western ‘journalists’ doing their best to pick out the worst parts of Beirut culture after a quick holiday visiting a couple of nightclubs. Last…
Posted By
Najib
Aug 16, 2012 09:15
I think this article is offensive, over-generalizing and pointless. For a largely Arab country it's a bizarre thing that in Lebanon , women care more about their appearance than men. Males lead a rather sullied existence, priming their closely cut mini-beards and, from my own observations, eating rather a lot. The formula in Lebanon's capital for women is fashion-forward, from their choice of cloth to the decisions they make surgically. Via Rita
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