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* Heavy Handed And Stupid Law Enforcement
June 18, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui
The General Security have made a mockery out of Lebanon yesterday by storming Massrah el Madina using heavily armed forces to prevent a play from going through for being “too saucy” for Lebanese tastes.
Of course the law is the law, and perhaps the people behind the play could have done their paperwork better. But the implementation is so crude you can’t help but wonder who gave the orders.
In addition to heavy handedness, the raid will have exactly the opposite effect from the one intended: It will give the offending play a lot of publicity. I for one am now curious to see what the play Oublie La Voiture by Rachid El-Daïf is all about, so i dug up this L’Orient Le Jour review:
«Oublie la voiture», coproduite, entre autres, par Pilot Group 17, est inspirée de trois romans de Rachid el-Daïf. Elle brosse les rapports homme-femme, qui, de Beyrouth à Bruxelles, paraissent universels. Dans ce lieu de conflit où se confrontent tradition et modernité, ce terrain de l’intime que l’auteur scrute avec un regard cru, trois histoires de couples se déroulent en parallèle, se croisent et s’entrechoquent. Sous la direction artistique de Rahim Elâsri, tous les tabous et les non-dits d’un monde arabe égaré dans ses identités sont étalés.