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| Artwork by Tarek Chemaly |
And here we are, never a dull moment in the Middle East. The image above was originally taken in the year 2000 by yours truly, today I switched it out a bit to become a bit more "artworkish". And voila, just to be clear, I have no clue what has happened in Syria will mean, either to Syrians or Lebanese or anyone else. If anyone has a crystal ball now is the time to say what they say - because comes a point where Leila Abdullatif comes in handy you know. But funnily was just speaking to a close friend saying that "if we learned anything in the Arab World it is that it is always from bad to worse", and he answered with "and there's little we can do about it anyhow" - to which I retorted "and this too we learned".
So basically, there are two lessons: The first is that things go from bad to worse, and the second is that there's little we can do about it. So at this point we back from the macro to the micro - to handling house chores and problems and being able to afford medicine, and putting food on the table, because honestly, when did geopolitics ever do that instead of us?