Ramadan Karim

This is my lost city.

Ramadan Karim, everybody.

Seriously!! Relax and Palestine in one sentence??

so, it's sunday afternoon in paris, one eye and his friend are coming back home after a long day outdoors, and in the metro station we see a huge poster advertising an exhibition at the institut du monde arabe about palestinian art.

my friend insisted to go there because she wanted to relax after this long day. she saw a fainted smile on my face and asked the reason of this smile. I tried to explain to her that the words relax and Palestine don't fit in one sentence. She laughed, and mocked my ignorance: how can art be but relaxing?

so, here we are. changing the metro line and heading to the institut du monde arabe.

after 1 hour moving between the exhibits, my friend went out with tears in her eyes and said she wants to watch a funny DVD.

don't question one eye's wisdom.

from the streets

reading Ms. Tee's recent post, made me go back to some of the shots I took from the streets:

Dubbya in Seville:

and surprise, surprise, Bashar in Paris:

Seriously, this is Paris. Not Damascus, Aleppo, or Deir El Zour. Not even Beirut in 2004.

just walk in the streets, with an open eye, and hope that no one will ask you for your papers when he sees a camera in your hand.

seriously!!!!!!

Mabrook the new parliament.

Actually you deserve such a parliament!!!

The Lebanese taxpayer, yes, we are taxpayers, pay the salaries of these jokers. Do you know that each MP get paid around LL 10,000,000 each month to go the parliament and be a joke and elect Farid Al Atrash, Ziad Al Rahbani, or Sabri Hmede for the posts of Speaker, or Deputy Speaker.

On the other hand, I saw Robert Fadel, Tripoli's MP on LBC yesterday, I didn’t see it all, I just came across it while I was surfing the channels. The dude is boring. Really, he is.

He was talking about microcredit, I did not catch it from the beginning to know what he was saying about it, but he was stressing how important microcredit is to help the poor, and as a proof, he mentioned that one of the pioneers of this field, an Indian guy, received the prestigious Nobel prize as a reward for his work in microcredit.

Our honorable MP is either stupid, or racist. The guy who received the Nobel Prize for his work in Microfinance or microcredit is from Bangladesh, not India. Unless Mr. Fadel thinks that every "brown" person is Indian.

But Mr. Fadel's millions make him cute, right?

Seriously, mabrook such a parliament.

I'll say it again, you deserve it.

seriously????

Hear Ye, Hear Ye,

this dude is untouchable!!!

did you hear me? he is, seriously, untouchable.

FUCKING UNTUCHABLE!!!

and if you are not convinced, you'll have to face the untouchable's sidekick.

I wanted to write about Sfeir's new found Arab identity, so I started little search about this 89 years old patriarch.

According to Google, www.bkerkelb.org is the official site of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, so I clicked on the link and boooooom:

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer.

So, imagine what visiting the "real site" can do to YOU!!!!!!

one eye's recommendation:

بعود عن البطرك و غنيلو

fading love

my love for Beirut is fading like this fading voting ink