Here and there

Been a long time since i last shared photos… so here it is… a trip to the south of France to see my father.

short entry i know, but i don’t want to show too much :)

now i’m back in Lebanon for a little while (i’ll be in paris next week though, have to take photos for Warp Records)

When you’re french, or “occidental”, and you live in Lebanon, and you start speaking arabic to anyone who lives there, they react as if it’s something so great and uncommon (even if you have a low level of arabic). That’s cool. It feels nice to be a foreigner in Lebanon, if you have a minimum of knowledge of their culture.

On the contrary, when an arab comes to France, and lives there, for some reason he has to speak perfect french or he will be despised.

Today i was at the bank in Paris  and a guy came to do some… bank stuff, and he had a big accent and not much vocabulary, and the employee at the bank was very… well. Just imagine a snob/mean face.

A month ago i was at the bank in Beirut to do some bank stuff and mentionned my level of arabic wasn’t good enough to have a serious-business discussion, so… well, the employee spoke to me in french.

In the same spirit :

An occidental person in an arabic country will not consider one second that wearing a short skirt might be offending to some pious local people.

BUT ! In France, a good bunch of people find veils on women’s hair offensive.

Sometimes i wonder who’s tryin to impose its truth on the other.

The occident has been showing off its self proclaimed moral superiority for centuries now, and they’re complaining that a group of fucked up minds blow themselves off in our capitals ? They should just try to see the world from a different perspective and see what they’ve done.

Our enemies are ourselves, and only ourselves.