#LoveWins in Lebanon too?
We are still a long way from achieving equality in Lebanon but we will get there eventually as progression is inevitable. We need more awareness campaigns and further action to change our obsolete laws and achieve equality for women and for the LGBT community among other things.
Source: Blog Baladi
3-D animation comes to Gaza
“The Scarecrow” tells the story of a child named Rima who lives in Palestine. She considers the scarecrow that keeps birds away from the crops to be her closest friend and her link to her parents who were lost in a car accident. She was later raised by her grandmother.
The film takes us into the two lives of Rima. While one is her real life at school with her friends, the other is in her imagination, with her friend the scarecrow. Later in the film, her imagination intersects with reality when her friend’s troublemaking brother steals the scarecrow and is detained on the border.
Source: Al Monitor
TV series sympathetic to Egyptian Jews follows in literature's path
Kamal al-Ruhayyim’s Diary of a Jewish Muslim and Days of the Diaspora; Bahaa Abdelmeguid’s St. Theresa; and Mutaz Fatiha’s The Last Jews of Alexandria are among a growing number of Arabic novels and memoirs that portray Egyptian Jews as ordinary, sympathetic people. The same is true of the popular TV series. But in both the novels and on TV, the sympathetic Jewish characters are generally unsympathetic to Israel.
The director of the “Jewish Quarter” series told the NYT that he was “perplexed by the praise [for the show] from the Israeli Embassy. ‘The series is not supporting the Israelis. It is against them,’ he said. ‘Israel is the first enemy of Egypt.'”
Source: Arabic Literature
