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Random Pictures for No Particular Reason
Last post 09-08-2022, 6:05 PM by integralboy. 360 replies.
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Re: Random Pictures for No Particular Reason
Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche
May the boundless knowledge that time presents and space allows illuminate the native perspectives of your original face.
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yam what i yam
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hungry like the
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transcendent love means never having to say "you will be assimilated"
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Re: Random Pictures for No Particular Reason
Published on Monday, February 5, 2022 by The Nation
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Kuwaiti Singer's Video Satirizes the Bush War
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by Helena Cobban
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Within
the highly wired world of the urban Middle East, the latest and most
potent means of political communication are short videos that are
disseminated either via YouTube or from cellphone to cellphone.
I'm writing this
from Egypt. Everyone here agrees that the video images of the hanging
of Saddam Hussein played a huge role in stirring up anti-US and also
anti-Shiite feelings among many of the Sunni Muslims who make up the
majority of the Arab world's people.
Now, a well-known Kuwaiti singer called Shams has come out with a new 5-minute video called Ahlan! Ezayek?
("Hi! How are you"), which is a hard-hitting anti-Bush satire. She
energetically sings and performs a well-known Egyptian popular song of
romantic repudiation. "Hi! How are you... You think you're so great? I
never want to see you again!" while hamming it up with a dizzying array
of props representing aspects of Bush's policy in the Middle East. And
yes, that includes Washington's "information" policies, too, with
repeated visual references to newspaper stories and to round-table type
TV talk-shows...
I've remarked before
on the complex relationship between pornography and war. In this
video-- which was apparently shot in Cairo and used remarkably high
production values-- Shams does her own mocking (and I would say,
extremely feminist) riff on that relationship... She sashays
provocatively up to a cardboard image of Bush at the "presidential"
podium before she takes over the podium herself... She stands dancing
and primping in a sand desert in front of huge letters spelling out
"DEMOCRACY" before hitting into the sand various heavily armed US
soldiers undertaking operations all around her... She wanders with a
"lovelorn" look around a sound-studio full of (male) talking heads hung
from puppets' strings around a table, and being manipulated by members
of the Bush administration before, with a wicked smile, she snips the
string of one of the puppets. (The string/rope left swinging there at
the end is an eery visual reminder -- same lighting and all-- of the
videos of the Saddam execution.)
You have to see how
she blows the blond toupee off the head of an ageing Arab male journo,
provocatively fans herself with the card holding her "detainee number"
as she stands in a police line-up, or disports herself langorously
along the top of the large letters "GUANTANAMO" laid out in front of
(an image of) the White House...
In the fast-paced
denouement of the video a cowboy-hatted Bush propositions her on top of
a castle built in the sand in the form of an economist's graph showing,
I think, oil-price rises. She swats Bush off the castle (more Saddam
hanging imagery here), then throws down on top of him a stone block
that turns out to be an "E" that is rapidly joined by all the other
letters of the word "LIBERTY"... which is then itself immediately
placed behind iron bars... Finally, from a fortune-teller Shams learns
that her future is to walk happily off into the sunset with... Naji
al-Ali's iconic, Kuwaiti-born child, Handala.
(And if you don't know who Handala is, or what he represents, then you
probably need to find out. Hint: "old-fashioned" pan-Arab
nationalism...)
Anyway, if you have a fast internet connection, check out the video and see what you think.
Copyright © 2022 The Nation
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meow
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