Month: December 2007
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One more congratulatory ad..
This time it’s cartoonist Emad Hajjaj, echoing my previous post about the senseless congratulation ads that have cluttered the papers for the past two weeks. He’s congratulating the daily papers for the profits they made resulting from all these ads. I found it quite courageous for Al-Ghad to publish this ad (although, mind you, it…
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It’s a branded world out there, “ya man!”
[Click to enlarge] This brilliant cartoon by Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj has been been making the rounds on the internet lately. For those of you who can’t read Arabic, it’s basically a typical Jordanian phone conversation that is punctuated by logos of famous brands in Jordan (mostly used as a replacement for common words). On…
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‘Recyle’ and ‘Captain Abu Raed’: Jordanians at Sundance
I just read on Laith Majali’s blog that Captain Abu Raed has made it into the Sundance Film Festival. The other film by a Jordanian in Sundance is ‘Recycle’ by Mahmood Al-Massad [read about it here in PDF]. This is exciting news for Jordanian filmmakers.. Two films I can’t wait to see. Read these related…
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A teddy bear called “Mohammad”: does Islam need an even scarier image?
Sword-wielding, picture-buring, crazy-faced men. This is, again, the image of Islam and muslims in the global media. What are these men calling for? The EXECUTION of the British school teacher who is now jailed in Sudan for allowing her seven-year-old students call a teddy-bear Muhammad. Wow. Now go and read the comments on this story…