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Media Expert Talal Chami is joining The Levant News: “I like to call myself a media guy.”

1 month ago
Media and Communication expert Talal Chami is joining the editorial team of The Levant News. Chami has published two non-fiction and one fiction novel. The talented writer is everything but your ordinary media expert; he is also a blogger, producer, director, and accomplished media consultant. “Despite that, I like to call myself a media guy.” […]
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LEAVE-IT-ALL- BEHIND-FOR-A- LIFE-OF-SUNDAYS Vol.1

1 month ago
The-Yo-Yo-Affair-Or-A-Crew-Of-Six-Unemployed-Friends-Decide-to-Run-A-Shag-Xpress-with-A-Rear-Hatch-For-BJs-In-Beirut-1979 A-SHORT-LOOP-IN-ONE-ACT By Talal Chami -PART I- She hated Jazz but budged in the middle of a fuck.  She would turn the volume up and tell me that the music drove her nuts.  Little did I know, back then, that that cigarette would plunge upon the bubbling sidewalk that afternoon, like a zeppelin in flames, […]
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LEAVE-IT-ALL- BEHIND-FOR-A- LIFE-OF-SUNDAYS Vol.1 (part II)

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The-Yo-Yo-Affair-Or-A-Crew-Of-Six-Unemployed-Friends-Decide-to-Run-A-Shag-Xpress-with-A-Rear-Hatch-For-BJs-In-Beirut-1979 A-SHORT-LOOP-IN-ONE-ACT I was the King’s Knight for the night.  I kick-started my bike and cruised for a while. A poet on tour.  Roaming the city.  Looking for a one-night stand. Or at least what appears to be.  I saw a solitary figure standing in a random spot.  A black woman with an Afro.  It […]
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LEAVE-IT-ALL- BEHIND-FOR-A- LIFE-OF-SUNDAYS Vol.1 (Part III)

1 month ago
The-Yo-Yo-Affair-Or-A-Crew-Of-Six-Unemployed-Friends-Decide-to-Run-A-Shag-Xpress-with-A-Rear-Hatch-For-BJs-In-Beirut-1979 A-SHORT-LOOP-IN-ONE-ACT By Talal Chami -PART III- Stories of Raping random girls, killing random children, and cutting open the wombs of random pregnant women were the order of the day. The conflation of the hard body and the violence emphasized these virile acts: Once added, the weapons became the required artifacts of masculine performance quintessentially. […]
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The Hollywoodization of the Lebanese Civil War

1 year ago
Terrible things happen in war. Many ‘innocent’ people commit not so innocent acts. Humans are constantly at war, it must be our nature. Yet we romanticize heroic military acts and certain facets of it. While war is hell: not thrill and fun, it is a game of losers. Lebanese media professional Talal Chami investigated the […]
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