Rexona, well, let's admit it - something is cooking there and cooking correctly. Yes, you can look at the details of the operation orche...

  Klio - yes, the powder milk. Sure, it has always been in the market, since the early 1993 to be exact. Whereas Dano, Tatra and Nido made t...

I spoke about Whaibeh prior ( here ), and now there is more. "It's settled" marginally better than the prior ad, and right ban...

Still from the Chāy-e Narges 70s Iranian ad Yesterday I was made aware of the 70s ad in Iran for Chāy-e Narges ( here ), in it, a model spor...

I shall start with a full disclosure: Patrick Chemali and myself are not related, we are close friends though, and this post, like all other...

Now that's interesting. The above is not one ad. It is two. And the reason I know is that when I was saving it, only half showed up. So ...

Maliks, where does one start? The silly riddles which lasted too long for anyone's patience? ( here ) or the times it got it right? ( he...

Remember the fiasco that Raqwa2 was? ( here ) To say there has been an improvement is not saying much when the bar was so low. Still, one ha...

Well Pampa has reissued its tamarind flavor. I did some digging, turns out the original launch dates back to... 2005 ( here ). Not to confus...

 A hand offering roses to some soldiers, small children waving flags to the armed forces, and... Tactical forces in the battlefield? Obvious...

Photo credit: Mahmoud Ghazayel Well, a small "kasra" would have done the job. Kasra? Yes, that is the small accent under a letter ...

Leave it to Mink to come up with a good Army Day ad. OK the copy is very good but very expected. A part of the national hymn - "our pla...

Jeep is - delightfully - up to its tricks. Well, considering the car gave its name to all 4x4 cars (in Lebanon it is not unheard of for some...

Photo credit: Geoana Hobeiche I have written about this prior ( here ) - at the time it was through the lens of Vileda and Fairy. Plein Sole...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly Oh don't you just love the EU? ( here ) - the gist of it is that starting August 2, anything AI generated is to...

SLMC is promoting its Kaffè iced coffee. Who? Well, the Pepsi logo next to SLMC is both a giveaway and a stamp of credibility - even if sinc...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly part of the collective memory as national identity series When Ziad Rahbani passed away, and later Hali, both being...

Well, apparently this has been cooking for a while. With influencers (please, no!) being sent to the attend football matches and all. Still,...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly Forget the extremely intelligent, even-handed, objective and as usual incredibly smart analysis by Mohammad Ibrahim...

These words I wrote date back to October 22, 2022 ( here ): "Sometime in 1993, at AUB, I pretended to be interested in football. It was...