I am NOT telling you my religion because it’s about time we learned in a country like Lebanon that you cannot judge and stereotype a person based on something that, in 99.9% of the cases, (s)he was born with.
Tomorrow is the Lebanese Laique Pride. See you at 11:00am near Ain El Mreisseh.
As for me, if you must know, well I believe in music. It’s the only thing I truly believe in. Here are 2 beauties for you today: Ella’s fantastic Mac the Knife, and Lhasa de Sela’s fantastic Pajaro.
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Nahil
Maya Tante hahahaha
loved it!!
rain
you make me proud =D
annie
Best illustration so far ,soooo proud ,I hate the whole nosy question answer about religion
Joelle
Hmm laken are you atheist or something?
Ekios
Aahh … Maya … my dear Maya … you can be proud and feeling lucky for your reaction and name. I do hope than one day, Lebanon will evolve on that subject, but still, I stopped dreaming for a long time, for me nothing will evolve since the religious will have the biggest guns in their hands and the warlords the power to fulfill them
Nice drawing as usual
Desiree
You make my heart dance with pride and joy, Maya! A big hello to your parents. They raised you well!
Samia
It’s stupid how they judge you by your background or what do you believe in!
My name is neutral as well And I’m always mistaken by people and they can’t tell my religion haha!
Honestly I feel it’s Rather Ridiculous and seriously people mind your own business!
Ghassan Yonis
Lebanon has the potentials of being one of the best places in the world, if it wasn’t for sectarianism and corruption (at least I think so)
Tone
Maya, this is the best blog post i’ve read!
I think you are amazing! I don’t care what religion you have (or more precisely,are born into, like all Lebanese), you are a human being and a fabulous and clever one as well!;)
Riham
With kaf?? I’ve been told (BY YOUR OWN FAMILY MEMBERS) that it’s with a hamzeh
(you may want to ask lara for clarifications!)
Anyway, I always feel uncomfortable when i’m put in this situation. There’s more than one answer for my family name as well, which is when they bring out the “min wein???”
I wonder what the woman who asked you looks like in real life. Is she the same as in the comic?
Simon
This is by far the best and funniest blog I’ve ready!!! Priceless
I love it…
Now have a good weekend everyone
Racha
i think my favorite part of it, is that i have same advantage!
i totally relate to this and have managed to drive alot of people crazy!
hopefully someday, maybe a few generations from now (cause it cant happen over-night) they’ll remember to forget this absurdity!
LOVE ur work
Thomas
HA! You are Maronite! :p
I WON! I solved the riddle, didn’t I? What’s my prize? Because in Hasbaya only Christians and Druze!
Nizo Gay Palestinian
Down with your Laïque pride!
I’m Melkite and proud of our superiority … except perhaps in the case of our culinary skills where the Druze seem to have the upper edge, but at least we don’t slit your throat after dinner!
On a serious note, I’m the equivalent of the auntie in your post… and I guess I’m not the only auntie out there…
reem abou
very interesting. i never knew people like asked all the time…
Saad Al Dosari
No Lebanese nor anybody should be labeled or stereotyped because of their religion …
Great post Maya … as usual
Maysaloon
That’s an interesting perspective you bring, but it seems to me that the conflicts in Lebanon have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with tribalism. If you take away the religion card, is that really going to stop you all fighting each other? Sometimes I think this popular myth has gone on for far too long.
A Purple Monkey
I fully agree with Maysaloon; in Lebanon its not so much religion as it is tribalism. An example of this is the next Municipal Elections; a lot of the monotonous (single-sect) towns in Lebanon will still be deeply split between the different families. In the past this had even led people to using violence and blackmail against members of other families. My religion is better than yours, my town is better than yours, my family is better than yours, and my father is definitely stronger than yours. Its pure tribalism.
That being said, great post Maya, absolutely love it! I think its a situation which a lot of us can relate to, although I dont see anything proud about pronouncing oneself as secular. I really dont like the word secular. I think its mostly for the weak hypocrites that do not want to practice their religion but continue to believe in it without question. I also strongly disagree with the notion expressed in your post and some comments that children are “born into a religion”. Children are born FREE; then they are indoctrinated all of their lives into a religion.
To hell with secularism; I am an Atheist, and I am proud.
Raed
Hilarious! I just love how you pinch the tante’s cheek at the end!
Richard
I thought Zankoul was a chain of Armenian chicken restaurants in L.A.!
P
Hah ^^ that’s Zankou, minus the L (:
Mira
I love it!!!
It happens with me aloooot!! but they usually guess from my family name! P
Abdalla
Thanks Maya, this is a great work, I faced this many times like all lebanese do. Keep walking please..
Isahmael
Nuke Lebanon and reduce the worlds troubles. It is a hell hole filled with duplicious cowards.
Christina
I love you for this.
Samar
sooooooo trueeeee