2021-02-27 07:59
Photo by Tarek Chemaly of a graffiti on a Beirut wall as part of ArcheWALLogy projectHannah Arendt said citizenship is the "right to have rights" - when you think about it, it totally makes… Read More
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Pop Culture, POPaganda, and media critique from the world over and Lebanon specifically.
2021-02-26 06:34
Very smart and very minimal.Says everything without saying anything all at once. Talks about its brand's usefulness yet still does it sleekly. And could perhaps be too sleek, too blink-and-y… Read More
2021-02-24 08:35
All right color me jealous.Look at this beautiful, perfect, wonderful ad for Naas bottled water from 1978 by H&C (then it later became H&C Leo Burnett). What's there not to love, the… Read More
2021-02-23 08:58
Artwork by Tarek ChemalyI have been twice to Sweden on two long travels (41 days in 2001 and 23 days in 2008 - both on courses sponsored by the Swedish International Development Agency). At… Read More
2021-02-21 08:24
The famous "lakohou atfalakom la yanfa3 el nadam" slogan as rendered by Tarek ChemalyWell, here we are - am waiting for my vaccine turn to come. To begin with, it seems a lot of people are n… Read More
2021-02-16 05:53
Is this the first Aishti ad? Well, naturally I cannot be certain, but there is a probability it might be among the first. It was published in Annahar newspaper in 1991. You will note that ba… Read More
2021-02-15 08:56
And to those who thought they invented the linking of ads to specific events, let me remind you of this brilliant ad which was published in Annahar newspaper around the 1973 parliamentary el… Read More
2021-02-14 09:24
So, apparently, we had a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) branch in Beirut in 1973.This is news to me. Not the least because when KFC was introduced to the Lebanese market sometime in the 90s (a… Read More
2021-02-07 17:21
So no one asked for Dolly Parton to rework her "9to 5" lyrics for SquareSpace (into 5 to 9), or for Leslie Grace and Meek Mill to spoil Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine's "Conga" for B… Read More
2021-02-06 07:50
Artwork by Tarek ChemalyWell, maybe it is best to begin saying I am not exactly an optimist by nature. If I say so, it is because this post implies a large dose of optimism. But in the last… Read More
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