I’ve joked about this before on Twitter. I don’t understand this constant competition of Lebanon with Dubai and the constant comparison they try to make. Honestly, it’s hilarious. It’s as if Lebanese are always shouting out “Hey look at us, we’re so more awesome than you, look, LOOK, we have the biggest plate of hummus! LOOOOK!” and Dubai’s going, “Hey did someone say something?”.
Have a lovely week everyone, bundle up for the storm that’s coming this week!
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GENIUS
There is no competition, Lebanese still living on past long gone reputation. What we have now are a few streets that have a nightlife that the same few thousand people hang about. That’s it… tourism gone, nature gone, security gone, the old welcoming lebanese personalities gone, good artist (not those trash we see now) gone, thinkers gone, etc. etc.
I wrote this in my blog:
شكرًا! يعني بترجاكن، ما بقى تقارنوا بيروت لدبي او لبنان للامارات، خيي ما في مجال للمقارنة، صرعتونا هالكم يوم عن دبي اكسبو ٢٠٢٠ وانو ليك وين دبي وليك وين بيروت، خيي بيروت ما بتتقارن بدبي، وكل شخص حكي على دبي انو يا لطيف ليش هلقد مبسوطين فيا بدكن تسمحولي كمان! اذا ما جيت على دبي بحياتك انا عازمك يا خيي، هيدي دعوة شخصية مني الكن تجوا وتشوفوا شو هي دبي وليش الناس بتعشق دبي، بيروت بتجنن وبعشقا طالما مش عم تقارنوها لدبي، متل ما إيلي ونور قالوا، بس تبلش المقارنة بتضعف الفكرة وبتبلش الغيرة العميا! بس بقى
But… buttttbuttt…
(Please don’t move to Dubai!)
Hehe don’t worry I won’t be travelling there any time soon.
where is the like button
Hi Khaled! It should be above the comic on the right side in the menu bar.
At least a part of Lebanon is still a real, ground up city. Dubai is at most an architectonic hell in all senses of the word. If you think “competition” lies in how organized your streets are so you no longer have to think for yourself, how tall your buildings rise to dwarf you and those around you, and how successful your clubs are, how well air conditioned your shopping malls are, then enjoy your competition. I’ll take a day in the mountains of Lebanon over a lifetime of indoor skiing any day.
Typical Lebanese retarde thinking. Denial, always living in denial
Hey Sareen, I’m a fan of your work
Concerning this topic though, I disagree in a few points.
First, show me the level of education Emiratis have. Not dissing anyone, but Dubai was built by foreigners (and Lebanese contributed highly to Dubai’s rise). So if they have “unlimited” oil-money doesn’t mean they are better than others.
Put Dubai in Beirut’s socio-political and geographic context and watch it crumble. Beirut is able to stand despite all the hindrances it is facing since more than a half century.
So PLEASE PLEASE, it is not wrong for us Lebanese to have balls from time to time and stop this infatuation with Dubai
Thanks for the comment Samer! Glad to know you’re a fan. The thing is, I have a feeling people are missing the point of the comic. I’m making fun of people who attempt to “compare” Lebanon to Dubai when we shouldn’t be comparing in the first place!
u could have done it differently, again u showed the money power of buying / building etc… or u could have played it simply on human rights and lebanon will win and explain again ur message that u can not compare
Human rights TNH??? Am I missing something here??? Lebanon abides & acknowledges by the “Human Rights” obligations? Does that even exist in Lebanon? I’m LMFAO now, such a joke!
Oh my oh my! Talking about the Emiratis education level, clearly you have no idea!!! Most of the Emiratis go to schools & universities in the UK, France & USA. And the “Put Dubai in Beirut’s socio-political and geographic context and watch it crumble” excuse doesn’t justify our failure as Lebanese when it comes to political failure, you’re talking about men with dignity which Lebanon lacks, you’re talking about a vision which Lebanese politicians don’t even have and blinded by filling their own pockets. At the end, the Lebanese always hide behind “it’s the politicians fault” excuse when it’s all in their hands to vote for them or not.
Hey buddy, again check the Emiratization policy / law which forces every business to have a minimum percentage of its workers as locals, EVEN IF THEY DO NOTHING AT ALL. That shows you the real education level of most Emiratis who are not employed by their own corporations.
Again, and again, it’s nice for us to stand up for ourselves. They have money, great. You are working in their country, even better. But it’s a quid-pro-quo relationship buddy. Don’t sell yourself and your compatriotes short
Hey buddy, again check the Emiratization policy / law which forces every business to have a minimum percentage of its workers as locals, EVEN IF THEY DO NOTHING AT ALL. That shows you the real education level of most Emiratis who are not employed by their own corporations.
Again, and again, it’s nice for us to stand up for ourselves. They have money, great. You are working in their country, even better. But it’s a quid-pro-quo relationship buddy. Don’t sell yourself and your compatriots short
I hear this, but USA verses everything else. Funny part is. The USA defender is usually wrong.
And, possibly stereotypically, doesn’t even know where ‘everything else’ is.
I remember being on the ‘net in the mid/late-90s and getting the frequent “a/s/l?” and when I replied with “…/uk” they’d ask where in the USA the UK was.
Well, nobody’s going to beat the Emiratis when it comes to impractical but cool cop cars…
100% well said
You can go to the beach and then go skiing within 20 minutes of each other?! That sounds hella cool! Even during the winter??? But high-unemployment is rough…then again unemployment in the US is around 35% the govt just lies about it. (US Labor Participation rate is 65%)
I would aslo add the lebanese guy saying “did you know that without the lebanese youth working in dubai, your country wouldn’t have been like that?”
This reminds me of when I lived in New Zealand, and Australia felt the need to compete with us over everything. We didn’t care, but for some reason they did.
The sad truth
Personally, i love nature and i love simplicity in everything, i could never compare my lebanon to a country as fake as dubai. (No disrespect, i’m talking about the structure of the buildings and malls…)
But when it comes to law, human rights and safety, any country is prefarable to lebanon.
Instead of being in a constant competion with others we should focus more on how to be better for the sake of our citizens.
Big fan of the comic.
I personally consider lebanon a nice place to come back to, but live there again with the political/social/security instability is impossible.
Lebanon has no long term plan. We’re in a bad situation and it’s not improving. Electricity, security, social rights…..
Say what you want about dubai, they have a vision and they are working to improve their status. Tell me what lebanon’s vision is.
You can’t compare them.
LEBANESE BUILT DUBAI???!!!!! SERIOUSLY….. 6 Million expats….. out of which 60,000 Lebanese!!! No SERIOUSLY…. PLEASE STOP THIS…. I agree with Sareen… DO NOT COMPARE!!!! Dubai is one city in UAE and UAE is a desert country…. That is Desert…. And Emiratis are not playing this game in the first place…. they take what they have and try to make the best of it…. They are very respectful people….. You don’t like it….. don’t come to Dubai or UAE…. but to compare….. means you are so clueless and so dumb as what the Lebanese community has become…. We were raised to be proud to be the most intelligent… All I see now is pathetic people being played by everyone…. JUST STOP IT
So I don’t count as youth anymore but no am one of many Lebanese that work in Dubai (70% is an exaggeration).
Can tell you the above is pathetically true but not when it comes to creativity/advertising. We know this because of the accolades Lebanese agencies consistently receive and the big GCC (clients they bag). Dubai has the tourism for sure but we, the Lebanese did the marketing and branding