Tag: arabic

  • The language dilemma

    The latest post on BeirutSpring blog reminded me of a [very sweet] message I received by email from a reader.

    It read:

    “Dear Maya,

    I drew something about *your blog*, I hope you like it even though it’s a criticism 😀 I spent a lot of time on it… It’s not good enough, but I tossed the coin 😉 Maya, please read this: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/28/101744.html“

    And had the below illustration attached:

    To answer you, Rocky  [and to all of you asking the same question] 🙂

    Thanks again to all who participated yesterday to the celebrations! 🙂 Tomorrow I’ll be “officially” announcing the winners!

    Until then, here’s Kevin Shield’s Ikebana from the soundtrack of Lost in Translation 😛 . Have a beautiful day 🙂

    10 Ikebana – Kevin Shields

  • Defining Entrepreneurship #2

    Web entrepreneur: I spend my days browsing "websites" in order to eventually get hit by a brilliant idea that has already been implemented 10,000+ times.

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    Green entrepreneur: i know how to seize every single opportunity be it mountain climbing or scuba diving

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    tech entrepreneur: i got an ipad before you!

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    social entrepreneur: we used to call it PR but the terminology was changed to fit the entrepreneurship era

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    Music entrepreneur: my latest clip "hobbak nar" was a revolution in the arabic music biz. i had the brilliant idea of bathing in corn flakes. it was the right thing to do, my song has been top 1 since.

    Got more ideas? share away! :-)

    [NB: This post (& the previous one) are criticizing the way the  concept of “entrepreneurship” has been overused & abused on the web lately, in the Arab world specifically. Yet it does not deny in any way the existence of  “true entrepreneurs” who work/have worked very hard and of whom we are extremely proud 🙂 ]

    The content of this post was “crowdsourced over a friendly chat in Cafe Younes. And that was today’s lesson in Entrepreneurship 101! On a lighter note, the whole “entrepreneurship” parodies happening on Twitter are extremely hilarious, thank you #Maniachi team for adding laughter to our feeds everyday 🙂

    I’ll now leave you with the music of an artist I only discovered yesterday thanks to Raafat Hamze (who also happens to have great writings on his blog).

    Have a lovely day! 🙂

  • Sunday updates

    No comic today: it’s Sunday. Instead, here are the latest TV interviews I participated to this week (yes I know it’s weird, 2 interviews in the same week!)

    The first was on BBC Arabic, and was about the blogging experience in Lebanon compared to other Arab countries. Here it is:

    For the full episode, check out fellow blogger Samer Karam’s post who was also interviewed.

    The other was on mtv and was about the blog, book, exhibitons, comics, illustrations and life. Here it is in 2 parts:

    Have a great Sunday! 😉