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Moscow in the 1930s, a novel from the archives, by Natalia Gromova, translated by Christopher Culver
I struggled with this book. The subtitle of Moscow in the 1930s says it's a novel, and having read the blurb I was expecting something in the style of Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, (see my review) except that the story of Moscow's literary scene in the Stalin years would be fictionalised in some way. But I soon found that I was out of my depth…
It was not because I don't know enough about the literary scene in Moscow after the Revolution. The blurb mentions that
literary aficionados will encounter important literary locations for the history of Russian letters: the Dobrov House, Peredelkino, Lavrushinsky Lane – and also the names of legendary figures such as Olga Bessarabova, Maria Belkina, and Lydia Libidinskaya.
I hadn't heard of any of these, but I didn't think that would matter. I've read most of the great 19th century Russian writers, and I've read some post Perestroika authors, but I know very little about the writers whose work was repressed in the 1930s, and I was assuming that this book was meant to introduce readers to them. No, what I found baffling was that the book was more like a disjointed memoir of an authorial quest. Although there were many, many people referenced in the book, it didn't have character development, and there wasn't any plot to speak of.
I read to about page 50, and, floundering, read the introduction by Elena Pogorelaya, and then, not much the wiser, tried again. As Stu from Winston's Dad says in his review, the book is about writers from the post-revolutionary historical period, and Gromova had access to materials about them from her work as an archivist, and she has used these letters and diaries to create… well, some kind of fiction, I think…
It reads more like a memoir of Gromova's research. It consists of patchy fragments from this and that, (which look as if they are authentic quotations from the archives) and although it ought not to matter whether the reader has heard of the writers Gromova references, there are many instances where she assumes knowledge that sent me off to Google, again and again, often with no results. Maria Belkina, author of The Intersection of Fates, 'one of the most famous books in Russia', has no online presence that I can find, nor could I find out anything about Olga Bessarabov or Varvara Malakieva-Mirovich. The poetry of Marina Tsetaeva is, however, sufficiently well-known to warrant a Wikipedia page, which illuminated things for me a bit because it explained her tragic life and how oppression under Stalin blighted her fortunes.
Reading this book, I felt, keenly, that I was always missing something. Gromova's point is that these people should be rescued from obscurity, but I felt as if I were traversing a map with no landmarks to guide me.
For example, when the narrator is puzzled by the posthumous repudiation of a major Moscow celebrity, Bulgakov, (who I recognised as Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita which I've read) she writes:
Why? It looked like I would be able to dig and find the answer to this question, for that I would need experience and an understanding of how lives were intertwined. Life rolls on like a ball, lifting up its heroes on high and then dropping them to the bottom. This ball keeps rolling even after the person passes away, it continued to act on his fate in the same way as when he was among us. How many times have I had to witness the strange reflections or distortions of a person's life in their posthumous existence!
Sergei Alexandrovich appeared in Tatyana Alexandrovich's life shortly after Malyugin's letters, and more importantly after Tashkent.
"I'd really like to write about Tashkent, the balakhana, Akhmatova," she said. "That is the most important thing I should manage to do."
Later, after she had passed away and when no such book was found, Ludmila Vladimirovna also frequently uttered the word "Tashkent", the place where Akhmatova, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova spent time. (p. 31)
Twenty pages later I learned that the balakhana meant an additional storey added to an Uzbek house, and it was not until some 17 pages later that I understood its significance of 'Tashkent' in the context of WW2 and the prospect of Soviet defeat. It was where many of these writers were evacuated to during the bombardment of Moscow:
The Soviet writers in Tashkent for the first year could not believe in the possibility of victory, and they spoke of how their evacuation would soon become an emigration. Everyone was preparing for Uzbekistan to become an English colony and they had to learn the language. Alexei Tolstoy had already thought up a name for Tashkent, "the poor man's Istanbul". No one believed a single thing the government said. How could anyone believe when they had all participated in the lies of state propaganda? (p.48)
It is little nuggets like this that make Moscow in the 1930s interesting, but they are few and far between. Who could have imagined that the intelligentsia were anticipating colonisation by the Brits??
The book began to work for me when I let go of trying to follow the paths of its characters, and abandoned trying to work out how it purports to be a novel. I just read it as if it were a memoir and assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the narrator was Gromova herself. She tells the story of her previous books, which explore the ways in which people she has researched are bound together. In 1930s Moscow the knot of personal relationships had become a noose, or even a garrotte because the Kremlin's interrogators would haul in everyone and anyone who was associated with a suspect. She discovers papers about Nikolai Stefanovich who infiltrated a group of poets and denounced them to the authorities: this betrayal led to four members being shot and the rest were sent to the gulags for a long time. There is also the poignant story of Wanderers of Night, a novel written by Daniil Andreyev. Copies were hidden because it was anti-Soviet but Andreyev himself revealed the last copy under the floorboards because he could not withstand interrogation. It is a terrible irony that literature replaced religion for this generation under the Soviets and its authors served like priests – but that working as a writer in the prescribed Soviet way was like a prison.
This evil, Gromova says, does not die:
If an evil is done for some period of time and is destructive to the human race, this evil will surely leave its mark on the way people subsequently live. Generations will follow that will lack strength and inspiration. They will look at everything around them with apathy and indifference. Their spirits will be burned out, they will grow tired long before they are even born. This is now today the 20th century casts a shadow over the 21st.
The lives never lived by those who were shot, tortured and murdered could not vanish. It is likely that their era silently flows alongside ours. To save the generations following after, one will have to see and hear these lives, to let every lost soul, every person who died in vain, reappear now in our time. (p.131)
Although Moscow in the 1930s is a difficult book to read, this tender homage to writers under Stalin provides an insight into a world that should not be forgotten.
The translation is generally smooth, but there are some annoying lapses, e.g. When society wasp going through (p82); she happy to hear (p254); she attend church (p.312). There are also problems with homophones e.g. pore/pour (p18) and story/storey (p55) and adverbs e.g. so stunning talented (p28).
Author: Natalia Gromova
Title: Moscow in the 1930s, a novel from the archives
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications, London, 2016
Review copy courtesy of Glagoslav Publications.
You can order it online through Readings but you won't get much change from AUD$100, it must be a mistake, surely! Fishpond has it for slightly less than the Book Depository at under $40:Moscow in the 1930s – A Novel from the Archives
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Well done for making it through to the end. Literature is so often seen as opposing Stalinism yet authorities had authors safely out of the way of WWII in Tashkent.
By: wadholloway on September 20, 2016
And they got Shostakovich out of St Petersburg during the siege too…
By: Lisa Hill on September 20, 2016
How interesting. Have ordered it, thanks for this review Lisa.
By: Jenny Ackland on September 20, 2016
I always think when the going gets tough with a book the thing to do is let go and go with the flow – as you decided to do. Sounds like it had some benefit, but I must say that I find those translation slips somewhat unforgivable – and presumably they are just examples so there are more. If I'm going to read a translated work it really does need to be translated well I think so I feel I"m reading a writer not a translator (if that makes sense).
I'm sure the book has some important things to say, but I don't think I'll be adding it to my pile!
By: whisperinggums on September 20, 2016
Yes, you're right about the translation…
Though I'm prepared to cut a little slack in some cases. Some languages have a well-established translation system going: lots of competent translators; lots of publishers making the books available (and proof-reading them carefully first). French is an obvious example, but also German, Italian, and Spanish. You can expect translations of those languages to be very good indeed because there are hordes of publishers making them available.
But other languages don't have the same profile. They don't have a huge pool of fluent translators, and sometimes only small indie publishers make the effort to promote the literature to the English speaking world. Glagoslav is one of these publishers, keen to bring us Russian books, but I've also reviewed books from small publishers of other Slavic languages and also Dutch. Sometimes their translators speak English like our second-generation Australians do; they may have been born here but English is not their mother tongue, and you don't have to be a teacher of ESL as I was to notice that they sometimes struggle with English idiom, tenses and plurals and so on.
So the translations may not be perfect. But I admire these entrepreneurial small publishers originating from somewhere outside the English speaking world. They know about really interesting books because they've read them in the original language and they are proud of their culture and they want to share it. And even though I tick them off because I hate having my reading disrupted by mistakes, I'm still conscious of how precarious they are in the marketplace. What they should do is get a native English speaker to do the final copy-edit, but that's an extra cost on top of the cost of translation and all the other costs that bear down on small indie publishers. Most often I take the time to email the publisher privately with my list of errors and their page numbers so that they can fix them for future editions.
I find contemporary books from the former Soviet Union fascinating. The people have been through so much and their stories are intriguing because they have lived through a massive social experiment not like anywhere else in the world. Reading the domestic detail of the people in this book is in sharp contrast to the bombast of the political leadership and it shows their humanity. So, warts and all, I'm looking forward to my next book from Glagoslav, it's called The Investigator and it's set in Soviet Ukraine in the 1950s!
Far enough Lisa. Put that way I can accept cutting them some slack!
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[…] As you can see in the final paragraph of my review, these lapses were a problem in another Glagoslav publication: Moscow in the 1930s, a novel from the archives, by Natalia Gromova, also translated by Christopher Culver. And it's a shame because The Nurembery Trials is thoroughly engaging novel that shines a light on the complexities of Nuremberg, and its contemporary successors in places like the former republic of Yugoslavia. The author deserves better. […]
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Posted on May 21, 2018 by eliefares Tagged CapharnaümhezbollahLebanonmoviesNadine Labakipolitics	Comments7 Comments on Hezbollah's Culture of Death Attacks Nadine Labaki's Triumph at Cannes
Hezbollah's Culture of Death Attacks Nadine Labaki's Triumph at Cannes
You would think that a Lebanese director becoming the first Lebanese and Arab female director to win big at Cannes would be a cause for celebration.
You would think that Nadine Labaki's important win at Cannes for her newest movie Capharnaüm would be a cause of pride in all Lebanese, regardless of who they are and where they come from.
You would think the above two statements would be a given any day, in any country, but in the country of Hezbollah, the pride and celebration of other people in the country are entities they are not okay with.
It all started yesterday when Manar Sabbagh, an Al Manar reporter, tweeted the following:
Her tweet, calling Lebanese people celebrating Nadine Labaki's win "the sons of Phoenicia," ridiculing them and belittling them in the process, telling them that there's no reason to be proud of Nadine Labaki's accomplishment because of the superiority of the deaths of Hezbollah militants in Syria.
The opium of the resistance is pretty high in this one, it seems. How the hell does a movie about mistreated children, child brides, illegal workers and a Lebanese director winning at Cannes somehow turn into an existential crisis for Hezbollah members who are so pressed about the populace not being eternally at their ass adorning them with kisses? Einstein needs to be resurrected to figure it out, I bet.
Not only is Nadine Labaki's latest movie devoid of Israeli influences, references, anything that is related to that entity that must not be named, but her entire win at Cannes literally has nothing to do with anything that Hezbollah pertains to. And yet here we are. In this culture of death that they are entrenching the country in, the space that they are leaving for people who want to celebrate such moments – few as they are – is becoming as narrow as possible.
Alas, it doesn't end there.
Today, Hezbollah deputy Nawaf el Moussawi decided to pitch in as well:
With a play on words, he says that when the going gets tough, the only thing that protects us is our weapons, and by "our" he means the weapons of his party, the same weapons that were – at many points in the past 10 years – used against the very same Lebanese citizens they said they wanted to protect, and those weapons that were taken to war in Syria, to protect a tyrant who killed and decimated Lebanese people over thirty years of his and his father's rule over our country, to "protect" us from groups that are best friends with that tyrant.
No, I am not thankful for that, nor am I grateful.
Today, this culture of death and treason that is being perpetuated by entities like Manar Sabbagh and Nawaf el Moussawi is a cancer plaguing Lebanese society, bolstered by the fact that few are willing to tell them enough is enough, and supported by hundreds of thousands of their militants who when told go, they go.
This culture of death, where a Lebanese director is ridiculed, her achievements miniaturized, where those celebrating her are described in condescending terms, is a slippery slope until these people turn the country – and they are well underway – into a country that only resembles them.
This culture of death sees an insult in a director telling the story of a Syrian refugee that was rendered as such by the very same regime they're fighting for. It sees in art an affront to the limitations they believe are enough for everyone. It sees in their own perception of what matters as the only marker for everyone else to judge and be judged. Hell no.
Today, it is more important than ever to stand up to the rhetoric that is propagated by the likes of Manar Sabbag and Nawaf el Moussawi. The two visions we want for our country cannot be more at odds.
We want art, cinema, achievements, celebrations of humane causes, highlighting of human struggles, attempts to advance our country forward, not bring it back to whatever the Ayatollah expects.
Nadine Labaki, we are proud of you and of what you have done.
Posted on November 7, 2017 by eliefares Tagged ConflicthezbollahLebanonpoliticsSaudi Arabiawar	Comments9 Comments on From Lebanon To Saudi Arabia: Thanks For Declaring War On Us, But Can You Chill The Fuck Down?
From Lebanon To Saudi Arabia: Thanks For Declaring War On Us, But Can You Chill The Fuck Down?
In today's episode of "The Bullshit Roaming The Kingdom of Saud," Saudi Arabia has – through one of its ministers – declared war on the tiny country of Lebanon as it accuses of Hezbollah of launching a missile from Yemen on its capital, Riyadh, on Saturday, naturally without providing any proof of any sort to reinforce such an accusation.
While the premise of Saudi military action against Lebanon is far-fetched; after all, they are barely holding it together in Yemen against some rebels anyway, the mere notion of such a huge and capable country declaring war against Lebanon is horrifying.
What this means is that Saudi Arabia can turn Lebanon into another Qatar (minus the money) effectively barricading it both economically and strategically. As it stands, Saudi Arabia does not want Hezbollah to have anything to do with any form of governance in the country, effectively considering the mere presence of the party in any government a declaration of war. Dramatic much? Perhaps. But then again, a country that arrested 11 princes only 48 hours ago is not exactly one known to go out with grace.
Such a declaration of war can mean chaos to many Lebanese families and our entire economy, especially with politicians that have made sure over the years to interconnect our entire country's fabrics to us being in the Kingdom's good graces. Yes, Saad and family, we are looking at you.
I imagine that KSA's demands will be very Hezbollah centric. As we all know, requests to halt any military activity by that specific party are near impossible for us as Lebanese to fulfill. Whether we want to or not, Hezbollah is stronger than the Lebanese state, is backed by a regime that is as strong as Saudi Arabia, and is influential enough to even terrify the mighty House of Saud.
What Saudi Arabia can do, however, is cause so much economical damage that Lebanon can take years to recover. Thousands of Lebanese families are dependent on work in KSA for their livelihood. Thousands of projects in the country are dependent on Saudi funding. Even more projects and economic dependency is illustrated once you factor in other GCC countries (minus Qatar) that also fall in line whenever Saudi Arabia orders them to.
Unlike Qatar, however, Lebanon does not have the financial or economic backbone to withstand an effective blockade against it from mighty countries that were, up until a few hours ago, "very concerned" about its well-being as a country. What could this mean for Hezbollah? The party has received such threats from Israel before, but where Israeli threats remain predominantly as such, Saudi Arabia could tangibly put a blockade into effect.
So dear Saudi Arabia,
We know it's been hard for you. Trying to enable a new bratty prince is difficult, especially when his view of the world is so different from anything you're used to that it's sort of threatening everything you've known. Your clerics are angry, some of your ruling class are angry, a lot of your men are angry now that you've let your women drive (welcome to 2017). And then add in those low prices of oil. Have you tried a Prozac, perhaps? Xanax does wonders too.
We know you've been stretched too thin. A war in Yemen, a blockade that's not working against Qatar, a feud with Iran that is not going your way, an American president who's only concerned with wanting you to sell stocks in the New York Stock Exchange, but could you maybe have developed some hearing deficiency? I'm pretty sure you saying we declared war on you is way too similar to that kid in recess back during school days who'd beat up other kids and then go run to his mother saying it's the other way around.
Look at the bright side though, you're slowly becoming BFFs with Israel. Yes for new friends, isn't that nice?
In the grand scheme of things, I wonder: are you okay? You seem to be more demanding than that ex we all have and despise. Do you want to talk about all those issues you keep piling up? Is letting women drive really causing your societies to unravel so much you can't even get your shit together anymore and feel the need to declare war on small countries just so you can feel mighty?
You already have our prime minister in knots around your fingers. His allegiance is literally with you, and not his country. He escaped to you in the moment you declared war on the country he was governing. What more do you want from us? Is Saad not enough? I mean look at him! He looks so happy to be there, with his fancy smartwatch.
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— Saad Hariri (@saadhariri) November 6, 2017
To put it blunty, can you chill the fuck down and mind your own business for once? Of course not, what a silly question.
P.S.: I hope you're happy, Saad! ❤
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Posted on February 24, 2017 by eliefares Tagged banhezbollahLebanonMMAMohammad Fneish	Comments12 Comments on When A 63 Year Old Militia Member & Minister of Sports & "Youth" Bans MMA in Lebanon For Being "Too Violent"
When A 63 Year Old Militia Member & Minister of Sports & "Youth" Bans MMA in Lebanon For Being "Too Violent"
I will never get how a politician whose background is education and who's nearing the Lebanese legal retirement age has the qualifications to head the Lebanese department of Sports and Youth, but here we are – as usual – and that person is Mohammad Fneish.
The Lebanese minister of sports and youth is usually inconspicuous. They sponsor a few tournaments here and there, issue statements in support of our national teams every now and then, but the sports situation in the country is improving at a pace slower than a snail's, the clearest indication our athletes not bringing in any medals at the Olympics and barely receiving governmental aid. In fact, those athletes had to pay for some of their expenses at the previous Olympics.
Today, Mohammad Fneish decided that MMA, which stands for mixed martial arts, would be banned in Lebanon and have all its licenses revoked, according to Sports-961. The resolution, which was published yesterday, says the following:
Article 1: Resolution 67/1/2016 on 10/4/2012 regarding MMA is annulled, and so the said game becomes one of the non-practiced sports in Lebanon.
Article 2: It is prohibited to any party, and under any title, to hold games, competitions and events of MMA or any similar sport in which a cage and violence are used, and that, under the risk of applying the laws in force.
Article 3: This resolution will be published and divulged where needed.
Before going into the benefits of a sports like MMA, I can't but note the irony in anyone banning a sports in Lebanon because it's too "violent." Our basketball games have a tendency to break out in riot just because. Our football games have the same tendency as well. MMA is one of the few sports in the country that is not synonymous with "violence" at this point, but it's the one that banned.
It was a few weeks ago that all hell broke loose between Homentmen and Riyadi because the latter team's fans raised Turkish flags to tease the Armenian-Lebanese team. Riyadi and Sagesse basketball games have been held more frequently without fans than with them because of how disruptive and violent they tend to become. Football games featuring Al Nejmeh and Al Ansar have also often managed to turn violent. What's next, should we ban sports altogether just because the actions of a few individuals taint the bigger picture?
The even bigger irony is that the politician banning MMA is member of a Lebanese militia whose ideological existence is mostly based on the premise of "resistance," which is inherently violent. How often does Hezbollah brag about its missiles, about its power to stop its enemies in their track? How many times has that party threatened the Lebanese interior to get its way? How many times has that party, in the past decade, launched mini civil wars against fellow Lebanese to get its way? I guess violence is only as such when it's between two consenting adults in proper gear, but never with tanks and brigades in neighboring countries.
If anything, Lebanon needs MMA for the many benefits it contains which would better our society. It's a discipline that has been shown to grow the confidence of the person training in it. It teaches them self-defense and is a good medium for them to release pent-up energy. It boosts self-discipline and forms bonds of friendships between those who are training and is known to be a huge stress- relief.
If anything, MMA controls the violent tendencies that we all have inside us especially in a country where daily life serves to boost our anger. Punches and kicks are not "violent" when they're performed in a controlled medium. It's like they want people to be on edge all the time and not want them to find media in which they can release all the crap they have to deal with daily because of the inadequacy of our governance.
People can get hurt doing all kinds of sports. You'd think a minister of sports and youth would know that.
Posted on October 29, 2016 by eliefares Tagged FacebookhezbollahLebanese Forceslebanese presidentLFMichel AounpoliticspresidencySatireTwitter	Comments12 Comments on How To Best Handle The Upcoming Michel Aoun Presidency
How To Best Handle The Upcoming Michel Aoun Presidency
I'm counting my blessings about 20,000 times a day that when Lebanon *finally* gets a president I won't be there to see it. It's sad in a way, that after two and half years of void I wouldn't be there for the happy ending. But then again, who'd wanna be there for this happy ending?
Don't get me wrong. It's not that Michel Aoun will be a bad president. All presidents are useless and he won't be any different, as the past two president-less years have shown us. But oh my god can you imagine the gloat of Aounists over the next twenty three years?
So here I am, seven time zones away, and still worried about the ripple that that will cause and I've come up with the best way to deal with the inevitable happening on Monday.
1) What To Do With Your Aounist Friends on Facebook:
If your Facebook friends are as enthusiastic as mine, they'd have already started posting countdowns, pictures, glorious Facebook status about all the glory that's going to come to the country on Monday. And if you're anything like me, you'd definitely have a pack of motilium or some even stronger zofran sitting next to your laptop at all times because nausea.
Of course, it's going to get worse from here until Monday which is just two days away. So here's a tip:
If you have <5 friends on Facebook who are supportive of this move, just unfollow them and practice EXTREME vigilance because they tend to find a way to have their stories pop up on your timeline anyway.
If you have >5 friends on Facebook who are supportive of Aoun becoming president, delete Facebook off your phone, take your precious phone away, put it in a box, bury it in a pint of trab l arz yalli aghla men l dehab, set up food in a bunker and huddle there until 2022.
2) What To Do With Your Aounist Friends on Twitter:
While there's an unwritten rule among Facebook users that one would not post countless statuses per day, and as such Facebook has slightly more restraint, the same does not exist on Twitter. As such, there are no guidelines for how to best handle your Aounist friends on Twitter except deactivating your account until 2022.
3) OTV:
With their lord and savior Michel Aoun becoming president, it's also best to forget that there is an orangy TV station by the name of OTV ever existing. As Mawtoura aptly noted, their programming for the next 6 years will consist of the following:
Morning Mass,
National songs,
Calls to congratulate Aoun on the presidency,
Aounist songs,
Documentaries about the great Samir Geagea, etc…
It's best to avoid this, or have xanax present at all times as well.
4) Forget About Anghami:
Here's a scoop for you: Nancy Ajram and Assi Hallani have teamed up to do a song for Michel Aoun already. It's not because they're Aounists but because when anyone becomes president, everyone else just dies at the opportunity to start licking their ass. #LiveLoveLebanon.
Of course Nancy and Assi will probably not end up being the only two people who have songs out for Aoun. Expect Elissa to have a song out a certain point too, because that's how things work. And there's just so much of Michel Aoun being rhymed with "kon" that you can take.
5) Brace Yourself For The Onslaught Of Positive People:
Some people may not be Aounists but as it is in Lebanon, there is an overly positive populace that keeps on seeing the best in everything and I just don't know how. Well, those people are bound to get slightly more annoying now as they are given one extra reason to be falsely optimistic about things in the country.
The earliest symptom of this will be a wider onslaught of #LiveLove across the globe.
6) What To Do With Your LF friends:
They probably don't know what to do with themselves so it's best to ignore their existence for now pending further development. Many of them aren't happy though, so just pass them some of the xanax from point #4?
7) Hezbollah *shivers*:
While Hezbollah spent the last two years trying NOT to get Aoun elected, expect them to make sure everyone and their mother and their grandmother and their deceased original ancestor to know they've done *everything* they can to make sure the outcome on Monday took place.
It's bullshit, certainly, but people are going to buy it anyway.
The criteria for Hezbollah fans on your social media platforms is much more stringent though. Just bury your phone and go live in a monastery in Qadisha already. There is no other way.
8) Avoid Driving:
I expect Lebanese roads are now flooded with billboards, posters, banners and mannequins celebrating the rise of Aoun. Even those that didn't like him now do.
I expect those posters and banners to contain some of the most poetic Arabic written since Al-Mutannabi. A few Bible verses will be thrown in there as well because, why the hell not? Isn't this the second coming of Jesus?
So if I were you, I'd just stay home until the first decent rain comes around and rips those things right off.
9) Almaza will have an ad:
They always do. This is not gonna be any different, and they're beginning to get annoying but this will annoy you the most, so move to Colonel Beer. #ElieRecommends.
10) Prepare To Explain To The World That We're Voting For An 80 Year Old As President:
I was literally asked yesterday who's gonna be president. When I said Michel Aoun, the person asking me was surprised and asked: Isn't he old?
And the fact of the matter is he is. When John McCain was running for president in 2008, he was 72 and his age had lots of people worried. We are now getting a president who's as old as John McCain is today. Isn't that exciting?
So what's the best way to handle people who want to criticize our country for voting geriatrics this time around? You can: a) tell them to suck it, b) tell them enno yo2berne mshabshab, c) tell them l mouhem l so77a, d) Michel Aoun does not age, age Michel Aouns.
Bonus: Bref, sigh:
In the grand scheme of things, the worst thing to come of Aoun's presidency won't be him as president. It's how annoying his supporters will be until the end of his term. There will be no major changes to the country. Hariri will be PM. They will tailor an electoral law to help them win. Frangieh and Geagea will be presidents the next two cycles. The political situation will not find a magical solution that suddenly sees our garbage off the streets and the country off to the right direction. This is just a perpetuation of the current status quo, with the people who made the status as such and well, who the hell cares anyway?
It's just so sad. *downs ten lexotanil pills.*
Posted on May 23, 2016 by eliefares Tagged Al ManarAli Nour EddinehezbollahwomenWomen Rights	Comments4 Comments on Lebanese TV Reporter Doesn't Think Women Are Good Enough To Run For Elections
Lebanese TV Reporter Doesn't Think Women Are Good Enough To Run For Elections
The saga of Lebanese women and high profile people who think they are not worthy of things that are their right continues, and this time it's with Ali Noureddine, a reporter on conservative Hezbollah-affiliated TV Al-Manar. A few days ago, a beauty queen whose rise to prominence was solely due to her sex appeal decided women should not engage in premarital sex, but that men should. I guess Ali and Nadine would fit well in the circle of people taking Lebanese women back eons.
Ali Nour Eddine doesn't think women are good enough to run for elections and take on political work. Why? Because she's supposed to "stay home, finish her chores and then come preach." Why? Because "religions have never had female prophets or female philosophers." Why? Because "it's not her job nor is it her capacity."
What would the female presenters at Al Manar say to a person like Ali Nour Eddine when they've been leading the news reports for years? What would Ali's mother tell him when he'd look her in the eye and tell her that she is not good enough? What would all those mothers who gave birth to all of Ali's employer's martyrs say when he tells them that they are good enough?
I wonder, how can Ali Nour Eddine look all his women teachers in the eye, over the years, and tell them that they are not good enough just because they were not born with a penis between their legs.
Ali Nour Eddine seems to forget that women have had a role in religion. Has he forgotten about Mariam? Has he forgotten about Khadija or Aisha or Zainab? If you want to be religious in your argument, read your own religion.
Either way, since when is religion the indicator of whether a gender should be allowed to enter politics or not? Even Saudi Arabia has allowed women to vote, and run, and thousands of them have and won. Ali Nour Eddine's mentality is worse than that.
If the only thing you know of women Mr. Ali Nour Eddine is for them to cook for you, open their legs for you, clean for you, and do whatever you think is right and whatever it is you want, then not only are you mistaken, but you're just another Lebanese man who has made it his duty to subjugate the other sex into nothing more than a shell of a person whose entire purpose is to serve him.
Let me tell you, Ali, about my Lebanese women.
They are people who want to seek office, and change lives for the women you've ruined. They're people like the 12 courageous souls that ran with Beirut Madinati less than 3 weeks ago and changed Beirut's political landscape alone.
They are people like my own mother who has never let a man put her in place, who has shown she can stand up for herself and more in a world solely run by men.
They are people like Therese, who is running alone for elections in my hometown Ebrine and who wants to show women that yes, they can also do so.
They are our school teachers, and our professors who shape our lives with their knowledge and kindness like few men can.
They are the people who have fought for women to be protected from men who think like you, who think that women are second class citizens who can be forced to bed whenever they want, who can be slammed around just because they can, and managed to pass a law to give those women a fighting chance.
They are the women fighting for better electoral laws to make sure that there's more than single digit percentages of them seeking office, to make sure that the numbers don't agree with you, to make sure that you are wrong in every single way.
They are the women who make me proud to be Lebanese when I'm horrified that I share the country with people like you, and people who "like" what you have to say.
As of writing this, Ali Nour Eddine has deleted his status, but social media always remembers.
Posted on January 9, 2016 by eliefares Tagged CrisisFaminehezbollahhumanityLebanonMadayaSyriasyrian regime	Comments3 Comments on To The Lebanese & Arabs Mocking The Siege On Madaya And Its Starving People
To The Lebanese & Arabs Mocking The Siege On Madaya And Its Starving People
Huddled in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, Madaya is a Syrian village housing tens of thousands of innocent people who are being starved to death at the hand of a siege enforced by the Lebanese allies of the Syrian regime. Their strife is not new. They've been going through hell for months, eating whatever they can get: leaves, dirt, cats, dogs. International aid groups are calling the famine there the tip of the iceberg of the crisis taking place in that village of 40,000 people, and no one has been able as of now to fully grasp the picture of the human tragedy taking place there.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Forgive the shock value of the following pictures, but the victims in Madaya deserve to have their voices heard on top of those belittling them for being forced to protractedly die.
Today, some Lebanese and other Arabs are pioneering once again.
I didn't think that there was potential for some aspects of my country to sink any lower, but color me surprised because not only have we done that, no, we have set the standards on how low you can go. Starting now, I beseech the entire world to consider us as a standard for being despicable, inhumane and revolting because it can't get worse than this, because there can't be people who are worse than those about whom I'm writing now.
As the news about Madaya's humanity crisis broke, some people in my country and the region had the audacity not only to stand with the siege, but to mock the dying people of Madaya. Behold a few samples:
I don't know if these creatures are people, because people cannot be so lacking of compassion, of humanity and of any ounce of civility to actually think that their own political agenda is worth advancing by useless social media posts over the frail, cachectic bodies of men, women and children.
I don't know if these creatures are of the required intellect to be aware of the horror of watching your child die in front of you because you are not able to feed them.
I don't know if these creatures grasp how horrifying it is to watch your parents waste away in front of you, and you in front of them, because all of you are not allowed to eat.
These creatures are savages whose existence is an abomination, who are not worthy of the air they breathe, the food they eat, the space their bodies are wasting by merely existing.
Ladies and gentlemen, we share the country with entities who cannot rise above their demented, twisted politics even when it's as clear as the dying body of a child who has lost all color in their face and all the life out of their cheeks. They cannot grasp the notion that there are things in life far worthier than defending what you know at all costs.
Ladies and gentlemen, we live with beings who can fathom making fun of people who are being starved to death just for the sake of being funny.
It's one thing to be apathetic to the plight of the people in Madaya, but to actively wish them further harm, to actively make fun of them is something beyond words.
I want to never wish them the hunger that the people of Madaya are feeling. I want to never wish them seeing their loved ones waste away in front of them not because of disease, but because of lack of food. I want to never wish them to see their pets being turned to stew. I want to never wish them what they are wishing to the people of Madaya. But I can't, so here are their names, and their faces.
Do with them as you please. I may not believe, but I believe those people will one day face their reckoning: اللَّهُ يَسْتَهْزِئُ بِهِمْ وَيَمُدُّهُمْ فِي طُغْيَانِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ.
Posted on August 19, 2015 by eliefares Tagged DemocracyFuture MovementhezbollahKataebLebanonMarch 14Michel AounpoliticsProtestYouStinkطلعت_ريحتكم	Comments7 Comments on How Lebanon's Politicians Are Threatened By The #طلعت_ريحتكم Movement
How Lebanon's Politicians Are Threatened By The #طلعت_ريحتكم Movement
Over the past month, the most energetic and momentum-ful youth movement this country has seen over the past of the past few years was born and they called themselves طلعت ريحتكم or YouStink.
That movement was born because a portion of the Lebanese society, one that has a functioning head above its shoulders and one that can see through the whole spectrum of our politicians' bullshit, was sick of the status quo that's forcing every single Lebanese today, except a select few, to live in utter misery, in a state of non-existent rights and… in their own garbage. You've all seen those pictures.
That non-political movement has its only purpose to challenge a system that has gone for so long unchallenged and to expose the corruption that is so well-rooted in all our politicians that they'd rather let the country sink in garbage than threaten their bottom line. And that is scaring our politicians shitless.
The Future Movement:
When the protests started, the FM accused them, via its TV station Future TV, of being nothing more than "workers of the resistance," which is to say that this movement against the trash crisis of which the FM and its corruption were central players for years is nothing more than a product of the imagination of Hezbollah.
The FM thought that such rhetoric would suffice to resonate with its crowds. Perhaps it did with some. But when it didn't, the FM's minister tried to divert attention from the protest by arresting a protestor who was "threatening the Sunni legacy" in the country by fighting for his right by suing the Sunni orphanage for sexual abuse and painting it as a threat to that minister's well being. Oh well.
Michel Aoun:
In between his quest to reclaim Christian rights and to get himself to presidency and his son in law as army commander, Michel Aoun was also very upset that his very, very failed protests were, well, an utter failure and had security personnel oppose them.
To make a point, or lack thereof, he asked in a press conference the armed forces to go and cut roads and whatnot to the YouStink protesters.
The Kataeb:
Some Kataeb MPs, plenty as they are, considered the protesters in the YouStink movement to be "ridiculous," or to use the arabic word for it "سافهين." I guess so says the party that voted for the grandson of their founder to be their head after having his father be the head for so many years?
Hezbollah:
Hezbollah's minister Hussein El Hajj Hassan asked Lebanese media to decrease and stop covering the YouStink protests. I guess Hezbollah's reps think that protests against the government and establishment of which they are part, highlighting their grave shortcomings are a big no-no. Tell that to the FM please.
March 14's General Directorate:
In their meeting, they accused the movement of being part of Hezbollah's brigade, which is why I suppose anyone would want to oppose this government or the Lebanese establishment as it stands. The meeting also asked the government to hold its own in the face of such protesters.
And On 19/8/2015:
The following are a few pictures of what's happening right now in Riad el Solh square, against the protesters of the YouStink movement:
Picture by Joey Ayoub.
Picture by Marina Chamma.
Picture by Bassam Mroue.
When they went down to Riad el Solh today, the protesters of the YouStink movement found themselves faced with a full on onslaught by the Lebanese armed forces who hosed them with water, prevented them from protesting as the cabinet convened to discuss the garbage crisis.
The government failed, yet again, to find a solution today and postponed the problem, again, to a subsequent date. It must be so hard for our politicians to find a solution where they all get money from the handling of Beirut's garbage. Hashtag: the tough life of a Lebanese politician who's never satisfied financially.
So naturally, our government failing was met with wide arrests in the ranks of the protesters. Director Lucien Bou Rjeili, who recently did more work than the entirety of our political establishment in the Bab el Tebbeneh-Jabal Mosehn issue by coming up with a play bringing people from both regions together for the first time (link), was arrested.
Activist Assaad Thebian was also arrested; Imad Bazzi, known for his blog Trella.org, was injured and transferred to a nearby hospital. Activists Waref Sleiman and Hassan Shamas were also arrested.
The protesters were then threatened by our those armed forces to be arrested and referred to military court for further management, because this is how we function in Lebanon: people protesting for their fundamental civil liberties get a military trial. And we pretend we're a democracy.
Not only have our politicians failed in the simplest form of governance and that is sorting our garbage, but they've also failed in maintaining a country with the minimum amount of liberties of being able to speak, of not feeling threatened to oppose, of not being beaten up and hosed down when we speak up.
How different is this government from those of the Syrian occupation period when protesters were arrested and threatened for simply protesting? It's not.
Today, the heroes of Lebanon are those protestors in Riyad el Solh. To the country's politicians, the most fitting thing to say is this:
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From 19-24 July 2017 Marina Otero Verzier (Het Nieuwe Instituut) will teach a summer school course at Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina in Kosovo. The course focuses on the temporal architecture of cultural institutions, their exhibition models, curatorial practices, social experiments, and their impact and political implications.
The course examines recent expansion of the architectural exhibition apparatus, and how institutional borders circulate from the gallery space to permeate the city. The resulting reconfigurations of the relations between space, power and politics in the urban space are examined, including new forms of control and consumption. The context is the changing conditions for inclusion and exclusion, as well as the emerging modes of engagement and political agency that are rendered possible by these transformations.
The sessions will be structured around a series of case-studies, including alternative spaces, architecture biennials and triennials, as well as commissions and temporary projects by major institutions including MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program (YAP), The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the BMW Guggenheim Lab and the Centre Pompidou Mobile.
This seminar is part of the new research project Evanescent Institutions: Architecture Exhibitions and the Politics of the Temporal, initiated by Marina Otero Verzier as part of her PhD thesis. This long-term research focuses on the temporal architecture of cultural institutions. It investigates exhibition models, curatorial practices, social experiments, as well as their legacy and political implications. The project examines the recent expansion of the architectural exhibition apparatus, and how institutional borders circulate from the gallery space to permeate the city.
More information about the seminar can be found on the Stacion website.


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Reich of the Living Dead: Part Two
Last week, I kicked off a delightful yuletide journey to separate the undead from the FUNdead of the current crop of Nazi Zombie movies with the opening statement: Reich of the Living Dead: Part One.
Naturally, there are more movies to cover in the future and (no doubt) more entries to spring forth in future but, to wrap up this festive miracle, I hereby lay forth the concluding, second part of this mini pop-culture quest.
Merry Christmas, one and all!
Outpost [2008, Steve Barker]
My goodness, Outpost certainly makes you crave a bit of colour on your screen.
Predominantly painted in the dreary hues of bunker grey, mud brown and camouflage green, Outpost sets out to bring a little bit of grit to Nazi zombie genre; propelling a group of mercenaries – escorting a stoic and chiselled British spelunker – towards an abandoned East European bunker-like outpost in search of…something (to be determined). When the unsubtly-multinational team stumble across a whole host of paranormal hooley blowing around them, it soon appears that the site was once an SS military research facility attempting to bend space, time and immortality. Well, bugger.
This premise kicks off a rather military-flavoured action-horror crusade, pinning man vs. immortal in a way which manages to keep things deeply mystical and shrouded rather than explosive or, say, interesting. Whilst the cinematography, acting and dialogue is of a high quality, there is an undoubted vacuum of charismata in both pro- and antagonists: indeed, the biggest villain – the chilling Brigadeführer Götz – is woefully underutilised and painfully lifeless. But hey, maybe that's the point.
Whilst, in the main, Outpost does manage to avoid treading on the same old Nazi zombie tropes, it falls over in its rather rigid adherence to the action-movie header without ever fully embracing the obvious paranormal parallels; culminating in a growingly tedious siege-style set-piece polished off with a hammy finale. Indeed, it goes to show that once you drain all of the colour out of an engaging concept and paint over it with camouflage gear, butch mercenaries and 9 mm rounds, what's left is something just a bit dreary.
Something that not even Tyres (Michael Smiley) from Spaced can brighten up.
Frankenstein's Army [2013, Richard Raaphorst]
Frankenstein's Army, on the other hand, is spectacular.
Emerging from the rubble of director Richard Raaphorst's previous project, Worst Case Scenario, comes a full-blown 80-minute found-footage film which gives even Dead Snow a run for its money as my favourite film on this entire list. Taking the concept of Nazi occult experimentation to its natural conclusion, the premise sees a Soviet reconnaissance team going deep into the Eastern Front to discover an undead legion of previously-human robotic Nazi homunculi with a whole manner of afflictions: scythes for hands, iron maidens for heads and giant pincers for hands, it's all here.Wow.
Naturally, this leads to a whole bunch of rip-roaring action as the Russian team lurch from one dangerous situation to the next; each time, ramping up the dread as the peril escalates. The film's style and theme is a perfect fit for the "found-footage" genre, and the cinematography is superbly worked to bring out the best in the style: indeed, Frankenstein's Army represents probably my favourite of the sub-genre; rivalling even [.REC] for vision and technique. The quality of acting and dialogue also matches the high-quality of visuals, and both creature- and set-design is absolutely top-notch.
There's a super amount of 'vision' on display here, and a wonderful amount of joy in seeing a director left to build a fascinating and creative world without much in the way of creative restraint. Either way, and by a long shot, it's the only movie I'll watch this year that features a lumbering Nazi zombie with a rotating aeroplane propeller as a face. So that's nice.
Zombie Lake [1981, Jean Rollin]
And from the sublime, we go to the ridiculous.
A little like the cursed body of water which forms its main backdrop, Zombie Lake truly scrapes the bottom of the Nazi zombie barrel. Sure, you've got to expect that anything emerging from the soft-focus nightmare of European cinema in the late 70s/early 80s hardly going to have dated well, but it's almost as if they were trying to make it ostensibly sleazy.
Zombie Lake (also: Le Lac des Morts Vivants; this one's French, innit) circulates around a damned lake which harbours a legion of undead Wehrmacht with a penchant for kidnapping young girls who skinny-dip in the lake; in one case, even a whole female basketball team. Bizarrely, salvation lies in a 10-year old girl, a demonic ceremony, and a flamethrower; naturally. While it purports to be a horror film drawing on the Nazi zombie schtick, there are times when it's hard to diagnose it from softcore pornography: it starts off immediately with full-frontal nudity and lapses into it with alarming regularity.
Out of all the movies that I have persevered through whilst on this quest so far, this has been by far the biggest struggle. The acting is contagiously hammy, the plot mind-bogglingly clunky, and there's an unbelievable amount of lingering, padding shots that equally lurch from one scene to another as if the film-cutter was attacking the cutting-room floor with a handful of secateurs. It tries to straddle the diverse pillars arthouse and grindhouse, but manages to fall catastrophically into the chasm in between; make sure you bring your crampons, because it'll be a slippery journey.
Werewolves of the Third Reich [2017, Andrew Jones]
Ok, so I've bent the rules a little. But hey, werewolves are pretty much just hairier zombies, right?
Werewolves of the Third Reich (WotTR) emerged out of the fog during a visit to a local brick 'n' mortar entertainment store, and I took a punt. The premise is this: Josef Mengele – the notorious 'Angel of Death' who conducted a series of human experiments at Auschwitz – has, by some nefarious means (comprising an overlong and extremely over-acted interrogation scene between a German scientist and a couple of highly-camp SS officers), acquired a serum allowing the fusion of genetic material to create monstrous beasts. Thus, at a generic Nazi scientific facility called "Camp 7", the plan, naturally, is to construct an invulnerable Nazi-Chimera supervillain from wolf and man (supernaturally).
Yet, bizarrely, WotTR reaches to reach almost two-thirds of its run-time before anything materialises: in which time we've stampeded through three chapters of padded-out exposition, an Adolf Hitler with Parkinson's Disease and the least convincing swastika flag that I've ever seen on screen. When the aforementioned werewolves werewolf does turn up (to imply 'plural' would be gross misrepresentation), there's literally no momentum behind the film; a vacuum of plot, punchlines and peril. It's low-budget, but fails to live up to even the lowest expectations and provides little in the way of hook to draw the viewer in.
Still, there is some entertainment to be had from the top-quality German dialogue that appears that it was translated word-by-word using Google Translate; I guess one has to enjoy the kleine dinge, eh?
So, that brings things (as well as 2018) to something of a close. Sure, I've managed to pack in two, bumper posts just as the curtain falls on the year, but I've only just begun to scratch the surface of the genre; there's still plenty of ground to cover.
With that in mind, you have my word that this journey will continue into 2019; until then, Happy New Year!
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