Sunday, May 04, 2008
Globalization of the media. Yesterday, I tuned in to Al-Arabiya TV: I saw Thomas Friedman interviewing some students in India. I felt the same urge that my father used to feel when the then president of Lebanon, Charles Hilu, used to appear on the screen when I was growing up: he used to throw his shoe at the screen (and you know the significance of shoes in Arab culture).