Graffiti = Devil Worship?

A graffiti artist in Amman gets bored of the usual ‘eyesores’ and decides to mix it up and spray ‘something decent for once around Amman’ – re-appropriating a banksy image to highlight Jordan’s chronic water shortage.

Under the alias ‘not-banksy’ the character managed to spray a ‘decent amount of Abdoun’ – one of the cities wealthiest areas – in the hopes of “stimulating interest and dialogue on this vital subject matter.” Although some kind of ‘public reaction’ was evidently expected… the individual concerned clearly underestimated the ‘lengths’ the authorities would go to in order to ‘resolve’ the matter, or that his image would be interpreted as “a symbol for a devil worshipping sect!”

THIS IS BEIRUT asks her Grandfather, who lived in Trinidad for 73 years, to blog his thoughts and first impressions of Lebanon – a place he describes as one of contract and history.

MIND SOUP asks “If Lebanon were a living, breathing entity, I wonder what sort of list of resolutions it would have” – he lists a whopping 27, with electricity and jobs as the first two.

TWOFORTYEIGHTAM gets to test-drive the new Fiat 500, comparing it to a vesper but with ‘4 wheels’. What follows are his thoughts after driving it around for a weekend.

“In Saudi people are comfortable looking like they walked straight off a catwalk” – but not so in Amman, according to ANDFARAWAY, where the city is forcing her to “indulge in the drab.” Or at least that what her mother thinks…

An action movie on a computer desktop: JAZARAH highlights Intel’s most recent advertising video which uses a multitude of programs and sites to display the power of the new processor, and track the action as it happens.