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Reason To Believe

English - Branding, Nation Branding, World Issues
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Reason To Believe · 1M ago

History Repeating

My father passed away when I was 12 years old, and he was only 42. He succumbed to a brain stroke. He was having an afternoon nap. I was alone at home with him. 40 years later to the year, my mother almost died of the very same illness and in the same circumstances. I was [...]
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Reason To Believe · 4M ago

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A POLITICIAN RAPED, THEN, LET’S TALK RAPE LAWS!

Few days ago, U.S legislators amended the understanding of rape in North America to cover male abuse. They also redefined rape as basically any kind of sexual abuse. In Lebanon, if there is no “real” penetration, it is not rape. Hum… Now I understand how politicians get away with raping the en...
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Reason To Believe · 5M ago

All I Want for Christmas – The Last Post of 2011

For this Christmas, I want the driver of that modified Subaru Evolution with a loud exhaust as wide as his empty brain cavity, to beat him till he begs for mercy. I want the driver of the tinted-glass Picanto, to humiliate him till he decides to spend the rest of his days walking, and I [...]
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Reason To Believe · 6M ago

Shame…

Shame on the country where religion is politics and politics are religion. Shame on the country that doesn’t protect those who protect it. Shame on the country that doesn’t advertise from what it creates. Shame on the country that doesn’t say what “it” thinks. Shame on the country that doesn’t belie...
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Reason To Believe · 7M ago

ARAB S“T”ING

“You suck!” “No, you suck!” “No no, no, You suck!” “No, it’s you who sucks! And your family, and neighborhood, and whole damn town!” This was a political debate between two Arabs in the know, brought to you courtesy of Arab Spring TV. Now, here are the...
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Reason To Believe · 10M ago

I’M A SON OF A BEACH. LET ME ENJOY IT!

This one’s for @StatusInBeirut who’s as crazy and eternally disgusted as I. As we near, I get the scare of my life. Five or six men-in-black (no, not Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith) rush towards the car and surround us. One of them asks me to open the window by making the typical rolling...
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Reason To Believe · 10M ago

Give Me a Reason to Believe

Sunday morning. Coffee, a cigarette. Time to think. I am almost 52 years old. I was 15 when the civil war started. War stole my adolescence. It raped my youth and everything I believed in. Since then, I live submerged, surrounded, overwhelmed by messages of patriotism, giving oneself, defending one&...
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Reason To Believe · 11M ago

Shopping… for a Smile

Picture this… She’s wearing more makeup than clothes… For real! Her lips are so swollen, you can’t tell if it’s the Botulinum Toxin (vulgarly known as Botox) or permanent surgery; but you surely could tell they did not come with the original package from her mother̵...
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Reason To Believe · 11M ago

SUKLEEN, MOVE OUT OF THE F*****G WAY!!

THE CASE Long long time ago (No, I’m not Don McLean singing American Pie), the garbage guys used to pick the trash at 5 or 6 in the morning. Loudly enough to wake you up sure, but at least early enough to spare you the stops, traffic jams, stench and the sight of a turtle-lazy [...]
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Reason To Believe · 11M ago

The Lebanese Mating Dance

A pair of blood-red lips walk into a shisha café, dragging behind them a pair of huge fake boobs that made that typical squealing noise of inflatable balloons rubbing against each other. Tattooed eye brows and fake eye lashes gave her the look of a plastic mannequin. The only remaining genuine part ...
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