In my post the other day on "TV's Top Newswomen", which claimed that on grounds of both beauty and brains al Jazeera host Jumana Nimour must be included in any top 10 list, I used the only photo of Jumana Nimour thatI could find on short notice. But several readers suggested that it was not sufficiently flattering. In response to reader demand, therefore, I am hereby supplementing it with one which more clearly states my case:
Jumana Nimour of al Jazeera
Maybe this will even satisfy Tony, who worries about people hating everything Lebanese. We don't. Either way, have a great weekend, everyone!
Thanks for the picture Aardvark. Mrs Aardvark should start to get worried :)
Tony, I thought people loved everything Lebanese! Really, Lebanese do everything so well --near perfect. Beauty, hosting tourists, food, armed resistance, civil war. Anything the Lebanese do, they do very well.
Posted by: Mohamed | February 25, 2005 at 06:20 PM
Ah, but you've never seen Mrs Aardvark. Jumana, Shmumana!
Posted by: the aardvark | February 25, 2005 at 06:58 PM
Other things Lebanese do well - advertising and internet stuff. No, really. Lebanese ads win awards internationally all the time.
Mohamed, were you snarking? Naughty!
I think Tony is worried that people don't pay enough attention to him. But then when some of us do, it's not the *right* kind of attention. Or something. He's my neighbor in California, I'm thinking of inviting him for home cooked Lebanese food and see if that will sweeten him up.
Posted by: Leila | February 25, 2005 at 10:27 PM
Jumana, Shmumana!
a Yiddish-inflected aardvark? wow, do they allow that in MESA?
Posted by: lamont cranston | February 26, 2005 at 01:19 AM
wait a minute ... there are no comments suggesting any such thing. Unless you got emails, I will be forced to suspect that you just wanted an excuse ...
Posted by: praktike | February 26, 2005 at 01:19 PM
We get letters, my friend, we gets letters. But in another way I suppose you're right regardless - who really needs an excuse? It was a Friday after all, and it beats cat blogging.
Posted by: the aardvark | February 26, 2005 at 01:55 PM
Once heard Jumanah say she originated from Jenin, so though born in Lebanon, her family originates from Jenin in what used to be Palestine...
Posted by: diala | May 28, 2005 at 05:58 PM