Saad Lamjarred in Lebanon - controversy? What controversy?

Saad Lamjarred will be in Lebanon on NYE-1 (meaning December 30th) at the O club.

Lamjarred - who is Moroccan - has recently had an enormous hit with - Lebanese singer - Elissa in the form of a duet called "min awal dekika" (from the very first minute). Elissa, normally a fierce feminist, has been blamed for undertaken this step as Lamjarred has been - since 2010 - accused by three different women in the US, Morocco and in France of rape, sexual assault and other such matters (the Moroccan complaint was withdrawn by the woman under pressure of her family, and Mr. Lamjarred fled the US while on bail in 2010 and has not returned since). Yet when the Moroccan king himself interfered to cover his legal charges when he was arrested in France in 2016, it tells you how much Lamjarred is popular (his hit Lemaalem has been incredibly popular on youtube and at one point the most seen among Arab artists on that platform). 

When it was announced that he was going to sing in Baghdad, a large campaign started against him due to the allegations of rape that still haunt him - same as with Egypt (do note a concert he was supposed to do in Egypt in 2020 was cancelled, in addition to a TV show he recorded which was never broadcast). Lamjarred was also supposed to have a concert in Egypt early 2023, but it seems that there is a campaign currently in Egypt to stop it from happening.

At this point, Lamjarred's concert still has the green light in Lebanon it seems though.

Abaad comes up with a new rape awareness ad

Abaad comes with another rape ad.

Here.

Well, sadly I have said it before that Abaad (and Kafa - bot NGOs battling for women's rights) have gone too close to over-exposure (please read here) with Abaad almost getting the message correct in 2021 (here).Their ad this year means that there are still women being raped, harassed, subjected to violence, etc... which is bad news indeed. The only positive news is that they managed to do the ad prior to December and not very close to Christmas as is their usual timing.

And as usual there is a tag - for social media of course - to do along with it: لا_عرض_ولا_عار which sort of translates into "neither dignity nor shame" - "dignity" because one of the major causes of rape not being reported is how all this reflects on the dignity of the girl (and in extenso her family) because of the "shame" it brings them (if you read between the lines it's because her "fault" she got raped, as implicitly it is her who "seduced" him to do what he has done - yes, it is never his fault).

Long story short, it is sad Abaad has to do another ad - yearly - for rape reporting or prevention or awareness. But also and this is what worries me, say a woman goes and reports a rape... Isn't she going to be mocked by the agents who are taking her report, isn't she going to be subjected to harassments because it was her who gave him the wrong signals, who was wearing the seductive clothing, who had loose morals.... 

Which brings us to this 2018 Abaad ad...