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Graffiti = Devil Worship?

Published January 10th, 2011 - 08:17 GMT

Lebanon's new years resolutions, shopping in Jordan and Saudi, the Fiat 500, Lebanon's 2011 'things to do' and a graffiti artist in Amman gets more than he bargained for
Art work said to be by underground artist Banksy is seen on the fence at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 24, 2010 in Glastonbury, England.
© 2011 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com [1])
7iber.com [2]
Devil Worshiping Graffiti
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 [3]
My Grandfather’s impression of Lebanon
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 [4]
LEBANON’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
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 [5]
FIAT 500
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.
ANDFARAWAY.NET [6]
Shopping the Ammani Girl Way
“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…
JAZARAH [7]
Intel stars in the Chase Film!
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.
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Links:
[1] http://www.albawaba.com
[2] http://www.7iber.com/2011/01/evil-creativemess/
[3] http://thisisbeirut.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/my-grandfathers-impression-of-lebanon/
[4] http://moudz.blogspot.com/2011/01/lebanons-new-years-resolutions.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+MindSoup+(Mind+Soup)
[5] http://www.248am.com/mark/kuwait/my-fiat-500-experience/
[6] http://andfaraway.net/blog/2011/01/08/shopping-the-ammani-girl-way/
[7] http://jazarah.net/blog/intel-stars-in-the-chase-film/