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Bienvenue chez les Chti’ites / Welcome to Suburb-Arabia

on January 13, 2016

Cinema Comédie Comedy Culture Ecce Hommos English Festival de Cannes Films Français Humour Lebanon Liban Satire

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The elephant in the room

on November 05, 2015

Comedy English Humour Lebanon Satire Society

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Red Moon: communists are taking over the heavens

on September 26, 2015

#YouStink #ابو_رخوصه #طلعت_ريحتكم Comedy English Humour Lebanon Lunar eclipse Politics Red Moon Satire Society

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Rare footage from inside the Lebanese national dialogue

on September 22, 2015

Comedy English Humour Lebanon National Dialogue Parody Satire Videos

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Farid Hobeiche, the other face of the Lebanese popular movement

on September 14, 2015

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Exclusive: video of Ahmad al-Assir first night in jail

on August 17, 2015

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Some Lebanese are like this guy that goes to the doctor

on May 26, 2015

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Claude El Khal

Writer. Filmmaker. Communication Strategist. Content & Digital Creator. Former aspiring Comedian. Occasional Cartoonist. I write in English with a slight French accent and in French with a Lebanese inflection.

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La Guerre Au Passé

There is a war happening as I write this. There are several, in fact. Borders contested, cities destroyed, lives ended over questions of territory, dominance, and power. The same questions humans have been killing each other over for centuries. And every one of these wars is fighting the wrong battle. Not because war is immoral — though it is. Not because the suffering is unjustifiable — though it is. But because whatever side wins, whatever map gets redrawn, whatever power emerges dominant, none of it will matter in the way the victors imagine. The world they are fighting to control is already disappearing beneath their feet. La guerre au passé . War in the past tense. Not just belonging to the past — but already conjugated there, already concluded, even as it rages. We are living the last spasms of the 20th century bleeding into the 21st. The conflicts tearing the world apart today are remnants — fought with 20th century logic, over 20th century stakes, by leaders whose en...

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You don't truly know yourself. Not because you lack self-awareness, but because you've spent your entire life performing. One mask for work. Another for family. Different masks for friends, for strangers, for every social situation you navigate. You've become so skilled at shape-shifting your personality — to avoid conflict, to fit in, to meet expectations — that you've lost touch with who you actually are beneath all these performances. For generations, these masks were exhausting but functional. They helped us survive in relatively stable environments where fitting in was a viable strategy. But the world has changed. In this landscape of constant disruption — AI reshaping careers overnight, social structures fragmenting, everything accelerating — those masks aren't just exhausting anymore. They're lethal. Your authentic self is no longer a luxury. It's your survival tool. But here's where most advice fails: "Be yourself" sounds simple until y...

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Some changes happen gradually, almost without you noticing. Others arrive with the force of an obvious truth you somehow hadn’t seen until now. This one was both. If you’ve been reading My Beirut Chronicles for a while, you know the blog has never followed a formula. No niche, no content calendar, no algorithm to please. Just one voice, sharing what felt worth sharing — analysis, opinion, observation, the occasional provocation. Over the years, that voice commented on politics, society, culture, and the particular madness of living in Lebanon. Six million of you read it. Some of you argued with it. A few of you changed my mind — sometimes because you were right, and I was wrong. Very wrong, occasionally. Then something shifted. It started quietly, almost as an experiment. In May 2025, I launched Visages on Instagram — an exploration of whether AI could create images that felt genuinely human. Not just realistic. Human. The experiment raised more questions than it answered. That felt l...

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