Homeland (TV Series) Got What They Deserved

via The Guardian Street artists were apparently approached to add authenticity to the Homeland TV Series set somewhere in Berlin to make it look like a refugee camp on the Syrian-Lebanese border, but they did more than that and planted subversive messages in Arabic like "Homeland is racist", "Homeland is not a show" and "Homeland is watermelon" to protest the show's stereotyped portrayal of the Arab world. The Arabic quotes were not checked by the…
Lebanon

Lebanon Wins the World Cup

10 years ago
A movie about war and football and the power of forgiveness. I loved the trailer and I think this should be made into a proper film not just a short one. The release date was ...
Critiques

LGBT Movie “WASP” by Lebanese-Swiss director Philippe Audi-Dor Banned In Lebanon

10 years ago
WASP is a movie by Lebanese-Swiss director Philippe Audi-Dor that tells the story of a gay man in a relationship, who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to a woman. The film won Best International Feature and ...
Baladi

“Waynon” (Void) By George Khabbaz To Represent Lebanon At The Oscars

10 years ago
The Lebanese Ministry of Culture has chosen George Khabbaz’s new movie “Waynon” to represent Lebanon at the Oscars. Waynon is about six Lebanese women representing three generations, each one still waiting for the man in ...
Critiques

A Shameful And Inaccurate Report On Baby Ali

10 years ago
Update: I got a clarification from MTV saying “that the title used was indeed wrong and that it was changed at the midnight news. Moreover, they didn’t mention the online campaign because it wasn’t related ...
Lebanon

The Bad Guy In “BlackHat” Is A Lebanese

10 years ago
One of the key villains in Michael Mann’s latest action thriller Blackhat is a Lebanese known para-military who fought with the Christian Phalanges during the Civil War and is called Elias Kassar. The character is ...
Humor

#Demonstration_Etiquette: All You Need To Know

10 years ago
I have no idea what demonstration etiquette even means, but someone caught MTV talking about it this morning and started the #اتيكيت_التظاهرات hashtag. I just found the video on MTV and the woman is simply ...
Critiques

Correcting The DailyMail & NYTimes: LBC Reporter Attacked By Police Not Protesters

10 years ago
Photo by Karim Mostafa Update: The DailyMail removed the article. The DailyMail shared an article on the recent Beirut Protests stating that “a female reporter was attacked by protesters on live TV during the anti-government ...
Humor

And The Worst Lebanese Pick Up Line Of The Year Goes To …

10 years ago
Update: Someone did a hilarious edit out of this guy’s reply. Check it out [here]. It’s hot, there’s no electricity and there’s garbage everywhere, an ideal scenario for the Lebanese to keep on nagging. Whether ...
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