Haider Jraidan is executive creative director at BPG Group and business head – Iraq
“When my son was in kindergarten, he went on a school trip to the Sharjah Zoo. His nice Lebanese teacher asked him: “Koki, are you mabsoot?” My little boy was taken aback and replied: “No, miss… why would I be mabsoot?! I didn’t do anything to be mabsoot?”
The teacher did not understand my son’s reaction. Mabsoot in most colloquial Arabic dialects means ‘Are you en-joying yourself?’ But being Iraqi, my son was surprised by the question. To him mabsoot means ‘beaten up’, which gave the teacher’s innocent question a whole new meaning. Although they were both Arabs, speaking the sam
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I cannot agree more being an Iraqi myself. If this they continue the Beirut, Dubai adverts they will only be Mabsoot out side Iraq and Mabsoot inside