Tarek Chemaly
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Roadster - either a prelude or a campaign

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Roadster is on it, again.  The campaign goes - in many iterations - "We're either geniuses or unemployed", "Are we seriou...
Friday, October 9, 2026

Abed Tahan - not yet 100...

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Abed Tahan has a new campaign in several executions. The idea is that... as we say in Arabic "may you turn 100", well at 96 years ...
Thursday, October 8, 2026

Tanmia puts its hat in the fray

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Well, what's with everyone advertising their chicken, Tanmia just their ow hat in the fray. "They say I am: Agile - Rowdy." we...

Toters is on two fronts.

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Interesting Toters is on two fronts at once. On the one hand, they have an ad whereby they give 20% discount for anyone paying with Masterca...
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Y-a-t-il encore du Maccaw dans tous les fruits?

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Maccaw... Yes, it has been a while seen we saw this being advertised. AI-created? Sure! Apparently there was a different ad with a guy with ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Hawa Chicken vs Bell Food - compare and contrast.

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So just this morning I spoke about Hawa Chicken ( here ). So I go to town and what do I see? Bell Food advertising that it too, has an oil w...

Hawa Chicken, no ad needed, says the ad

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Well, this is counter-intuitive even if it ends up making sense. A brand saying "it doesn't need advertising", while actually ...
Monday, October 5, 2026

Of AI, Lagerfeld, and "if you're cheap nothing helps"

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly I can't believe I have to speak about this again ( here ). To be clear, I have nothing against AI, not that I u...
Saturday, October 3, 2026

So Almaza now has an e-shop

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It was bound to happen. Although I think this is way beyond the zeitgeist at this point (you can see the shop here ) - interestingly they st...
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Fattal rebrands to Tamina

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By now you have probably heard of CMA CGM acquiring Fattal Group (an incredibly smart move if there was one - Fattal being a leading regiona...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Optimal, a gender-neutral back to school

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This is interesting, finally someone not being stereotypical gender-wise. It could have been very easy to do so, but Optimal has avoided thi...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Of Mozart and thoughts of mortality

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly Here's a hint: Don't grow up during a war. I once wrote "The first time I saw wounded people, I felt e...
Friday, September 25, 2026

NYX x Roadster, how come no one "nyx"ed the idea?

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OK let me start with the words of Aya Haitham, senior brand manager at NYX. "We brought together two worlds no one expected to see coll...

Sheikh el Meshwe, different sheikhs for different menu items

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Cheikh el Meshwe (the cheikh of grills) plays on its name with its many reincarnations. There are several actually. The one above is a perfe...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Sunsilk lands a new maxxxxing (amended)

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So after money-maxxing, China-maxxxxing, sidequest-maxxxxing, fiber-maxxxxing, sleep-maxxxxing, and the list goes ad infinitum . So while we...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Reminder: Al Abdalla, Ahmad being the original.

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Remember the Aladballa vs Al7ayalla debacle? ( here ). Well, me in my little ignorance, I did not know that basically, the original was Ahma...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

McDonald's - how tacky can you get?

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McDonald's. Seriously? "El joude bi albna mawjoude" - quality is present in our heart - does it rhyme? Yes. Is it silly? Yes. ...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Arix - Tonkita - now go clean.

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There's too much going here, but can you blame them? They are introducing now one, but two brands, brands which seem unknown to the publ...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Collagenix - a more negative than positive line.

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When you tell someone, at least in Lebanon, "what have you done to your face?" it is usually an expression with negative connotati...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

Is Nescafe changing its positioning?

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For a long time Nescafe has labelled itself as a morning drink, using the line صَح صح which is akin to wakey wakey. Slowly but surely, it is...
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