Showing posts with label Palestine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestine. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2024

My crystal ball applies only to advertising

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Part of my installation "No Truce in Beirut, Only Virgins" ( here ) Recently I wrote a post, "Jours tranquilles a Beyrouth...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Coca-Cola shoots itself in the foot with its Bangladesh ad

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So small background: Coca-Cola is among the brands targeted by boycott due to its perceived support of Israel with the Hamas war in Gaza. Ac...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

The world keeps on turning: Rafah crossing and the Met Gala

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Yesterday yahoo headlines were: Israel seizes control of Rafah border crossing, what all stars wore at  last night's Met Gala - and more...
Monday, January 1, 2024

2023 was exceptionally triggering for me

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly from the series "Visit Palestines" In case you are not aware, I am literally a war child. I was born 6 mo...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

Gaza quicksand drowns Zara

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Zara walks into the controversy open-eyed. In this sensitive, very sensitive time marketing-wise, where brands and celebrities are being scr...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Bayti Store goes for the biggest political dig of them all

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Now that came out of left field! Bayti Store goes for a major political dig... Their prices? "Cheaper than all Arab leaders"... No...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Why is an ad about 2006 war leading me to the US department of State regarding Gaza?

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So how does this get me this? ( Here ).  The still above is from an ad that popped up as a I was browsing. It is about how devastating the 2...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

McDonald's Lebanon and 25 years come in a checkered festivity

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So lately McDonald's Lebanon is celebrating 25 years in the land, but it has also been embroiled in what is happening in Israel-Palestin...
Friday, October 27, 2023

No Halloween this year, the horror is real....

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I don't care where you stand politically, this is an excellent ad. I could get any other information about it apart from the fact that i...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Of life, carpets, cardigans and wars

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly On November 10, 2015, I published the following: This year, we put the winter carpets early on with early November ...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Palestine: A country that lives in us (new video art)

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly Palestinians have a saying "everyone has a country to live in but we have a country that lives in us"... ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

How can one seek stability when all goalposts keep on changing?

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly based on a vintage Rimal resort ad Not even sure what I am saying here. Might be the product of frustration, or dis...
Monday, October 9, 2023

What's goin' on? There's a riot going on

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly When Marvin Gaye issued his seminal album "What's going on" in 1971, Sly and the Family Stone release...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

The current Ukrainian crisis showed that some refugees are more equal than others

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Source: The Art Of Boo Moustafa Byoumi wrote a brilliant article in The Guardian lately (please read here ) whereby he detailed how "ra...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Bayan Dahdah x Nativeheads.co and some meaningful watermelons

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"In 1967, it became a crime to raise a Palestinian flag in occupied Palestine. In a gesture of protest, Palestinians would carry a slic...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Why I haven't said anything about Palestine.

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With the whole world up in arms about Palestine (no need to link anything, you can just read it anywhere), I have been totally silent about ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

On that road to Jerusalem that goes through Jounieh

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Artwork by Tarek Chemaly Is there a way to simplify a complicated chequered issue? No there is not. I personally know the man who used...