Tarek Chemaly
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Roadster declares that we deserve summer

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"We deserve summer" - we also deserve stability, peace of mind, calmness, and trauma healing. But let's not go into psychoanal...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Almaza: Welcome to the bottom of the (beer) barrel

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Is this ad tasteless? No, more than tasteless. Triggering? Actually, a lot more than that. Has a sick twisted sense of humor? I am not laugh...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Bonjus x Phat2 - what is old is new again.

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All right, this dates back to 2018, yet Bonjus is pushing this as sponsored content now. I guess they went back to their archive and saw wha...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Crepaway, unappealing grab-and-go

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" Spontaneous detour? Nah. Just a strategic grab-and-go." Well, not seeing the strategy, but that might just be me. Well, in an ad...

Silkor has a winner on their hands

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Silkor does not always get it right ( here and here ) but when it does, well, it is off the charts. Look at this beauty. To be honest, I al...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Tawfeer flexes its cart muscles

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Well, you don't see that every day, a cart flexing its muscles. Well, the image is from their instagram although the campaign is all ove...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

President goes to Paris and does not take you along.

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All right, call me foolish, but the new President ad was... confusing to me. The main headline? "Enjoy Paris", well, silly me I ex...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Tekram emphasizes speed

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I have spoken about Tekram and their lovely name prior ( here ), yes, this was a me-too product, but at least they know their strength (or p...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Saint George is back, thankfully and finally

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Photo credit Lance Aramouny The Saint George is back. No mean feat, trust us on this one. After years upon years of being treated unfairly a...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Jeep does Father's Day

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Before anyone else, there was Jeep. Not the new iteration shown in the ad above (a very good ad mind you), but the original, passepartout Wi...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Hallab 1881, a horrendous father's day ad

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Remember the atrocious Hallab 1881 ad for independence day? ( here ). Well, guess who is back with more of the same? Or rather less of the s...
Friday, June 20, 2025

For companies, LUV is a three-letter word.

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  This editorial will appear on the Communicate issue 184, Q2 as I am the editor in chief of the magazine in question. _____________________...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Promarché - win with a car(t) for its 5th year

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Well, sometimes it is the easiest way out. But why not? I for one do not distinguish between high brow creative and creative because this is...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

CIS and technical colleges

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CIS is all over the place now on the streets. First, there was, for a long time, a stigma about "technical colleges". Usually the ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

On using celebrities in ads - the case of Nadine Njeim and Gliss

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I recently spoke about Nour Arida in the new Marie France campaign ( here ), but this is different - I am speaking of the new Nadine Njeim i...

Nahnoo, goes to/against the beach

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If Nahnoo had a confusing first outing ( here ) and second outing here ( here ), this one, is at least clearer, or so I think. OK, so that t...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Bonjus is... Cool.

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Bonjus seems to be, well, cool. Of course when one thinks Bonjus perhaps the pyramid juice box that comes to your mind, but the empire is mu...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Marie France, reframing the male gaze.

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So finally, as in finally, the male gaze has been reframed in terms of women's lingerie. Introducing the new campaign by Marie France. ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Health Up vs Diet Pepsi (compare and contrast)

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I am not saying they did, I am not saying they didn't.. But the margin between Health Up and Pepsis is pretty, well, almost "zero...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

McDonald's (no, you are not drunk)

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In 1995 we did a major presentation about the environment (yes, I know I was ahead of the curve), the invite had a "double font" -...
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