On the occasion of April Fools’ day, today’s caricature in the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat was simply our Lebanese flag as a statement that our republic is nothing more than a joke.
Not sure whether we should laugh or cry.
Update:
Asharq Al-Awsat ended up removing the caricature from their website following the rage expressed over it on social media.
The Washington Post posted some photos that were taken yesterday by NASA of the snowstorm Alexa that hit the region last week.
The white areas on the land are all snow, another wider photo shows that even a northern area of Saudi Arabia got a little bit of snow.
On a side note, the author of the article might have to consider educating himself a bit more about the middle east as he thinks “it is quite something” to see snow around here and our neighbors!
NASA’s Earth Observatory has posted a photo of the storm taken from space. It was taken Dec. 15, after the storm had passed and the skies had cleared; the white areas on the land are snow, not clouds. It’s quite something to see the snow across Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
In response to the Saudi cartoon of Patriarch Bechara El Rai that was published in Al-Watan newspaper last week, the below giant caricature was hung on Jal El-Dib highway this morning and was shortly later removed by the security forces.
Let’s hope it won’t cause any diplomatic crisis..!
Photo via Jad Fakhry
I would have loved to see the reaction if it was Hassan Nasrallah or the mufti who’s being mocked instead…!
The caricature can be found on Al-Watan’s website.