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"The Dictator" is a play currently being performed in Beirut, Al-Madina theater.

Kill, kill, kill everything.

Kill the light falling on this page
like a false promise of warmth;
kill the news of a world in spiral.

Kill time, cruel time, ruthless time,
endless time, fleeting time, time
laying at your feet like a bored dog.

Kill hope, lazy hope, easy hope, hope peeking
like misguided blossoms in a snow storm.
Kill this, the need to reach out and touch,
say I am here, and you?

Kill that, the urge to call them, to hear them,
to assure them as only you want to be assured.
Kill it, kill it all, kill the want to live again, kill
the want to die, kill the want to be, to become.

Kill it and remain, not a reminder, just
a hollow shell mistaken for what was,

This is something I’ve always wanted to do. We see them all over the world, but no one bothers doing some for Lebanon. But, a Facebook status later, the famous Elia Msawwir and me found ourselves heading north early in the morning and took these shots of Jounieh’s gulf and shore. We’re planning to do many, many more. But, I’d like to also ask you guys to contribute so we can eventually create a mega-post of Then and Now! Also, feedback?

If you apply the concept of probability to luck you will find that it simply does not apply. Luck is not random; it always falls on the wrong person. Luck is not a fair game. It is a game that only gives you the illusion that the likeliness that luck will happen to you is the same as everyone else. The longer you live, the more you could prove to yourself that if you are an unlucky person, the likeliness is that you will never become any luckier. You can hope, but hope is the weapon of the unlucky.

Watch the commercial above and then watch the Najwa Karam music video below (gets interesting at 40seconds).

Thanks Pierre

In the mist
Yes, still in that northern region of the Beqaa Valley. So we are driving around, and suddenly in the mist, we see all these shapes popping up all over the plain. The area around el Qaa is teeming with ancient mud dwellings.

Found this in my wallet… Guess some dude was giving it to a stripper he likes?

"Finally, we can say that if the success of the Islamists is indisputable, they first owe it to their opponents, who led a negative campaign against Ennahda using an alienating rhetoric on modernity that excluded a large part of the population whose access to power, wealth, knowledge and information is limited. The Islamic winners did not, however, receive a blank check. Many among those who voted for Ennahda last October could easily end up in the opposing camp if voters are disappointed by broken promises, or if they sense a return to dogmas that are too radical and conservative."

Maybe this will help explain my position better.

Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Sean Connery, Marilyn Monroe and The Beatles are here at RestHaut  From their website…. 
“And so the RestHaut experience will take you into the fabulous life of the celebrities!”
Adolf Hitler??

After long and laborious negotiations, 7UPstairs Publishing is proud to announce to its readers that legendary home-problems extraordinaire Abou Fouad (from the YES fame) has agreed to extrapolate his "3 bi 1" philosophy in a full book that will be issued as soon as the technical hurdles are out of the way.

Following the polemic that seeped about Lara Fabian's visit to Lebanon and the fact that she has her own political opinions which are not compatible with a fragment of the Lebanese population (she supports Israel it seems, I was frankly quite shocked that no one mentioned that Yusuf Cat Stevens also holds certain political opinions which are not compatible with a those of a fragment of the Lebanese population, Mr Islam (he is known as Yusuf Islam) was known to support the death fatwa that was issued by t

As you all know, with ABC Dbayeh’s recent expansion, a cinema multiplex was bound to open up. I’ve learned that the planned theaters will be operated by Grand Cinemas (as expected, since they run the ABC Ashrafieh ones). It will include 8 theaters and is set to open in April of 2012.

And the priest and priestesses said unto him:
Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.
You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces.
Much have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been veiled.
Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and would stand revealed before you.
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

--The Prophet, by Gebran Khalil Gebran.

Dear Laila has kindly translated my al akhbar article
The Year of Cooperatives