November 10, 2007

Halloween Beirut Style

I know Halloween is long gone, but look what I saw today. Talking about cultural fusion! The Lebanese understand the concept of Halloween; scary costumes, and so they developed their own line of horrific creatures. No Freddy Kruger or Scream for us. Just get a line up of politicians, and that should frighten the wits out of you.
Scary Halloween Masks, Beirut style: Osama Bin Laden (Not-Lebanese, I might add) - Rafic Hariri - ? (fill me in) - Saddam Hussein (or is it is Minister of Information?) – George Bush (?) – Samir Geagea – Walid Joumblatt – Saad Hariri – Nabih Berri.

In case you’re fed up by all this presidential stuff, join the club. Nicolien saw this note: “Jaajaa is out,
Aoun is back,
Sanioura has become greedy,
Lahoud is staying,
I am leaving,
and the car is for sale.”

4 Comments:

At Saturday, 10 November, 2007, Blogger DC said...

1. The head kind of looks like Josh Ashcroft but I dunno why any Lebanese would want to be a former US attorney general?

2. Is it jaajaa is out or jaajaa emerged/appeared? Either way it's a pretty awesome poem.

 
At Saturday, 10 November, 2007, Anonymous Nicolien said...

actually, i got this picture from Walid's blog (theworldismyidea.blogspot.com), but i saw a very similar one a few days ago when i didn't have my camera with me, so i used it anyway...

 
At Monday, 12 November, 2007, Blogger Riemer Brouwer said...

@nicolien,

A similar pic did the rounds during the aftermath of Hariri's killing, it even made the front page of the Daily Star.

 
At Tuesday, 08 February, 2011, Anonymous Buy Viagra said...

Excellent post, I think this is an important point of view. I would like emulate the style... I'm an artist who loves this kind of works! Thanks for showing this and lets keep sharing the fantasy around Beirut!

 

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