nahrein:

zai-nabil:

This is the New Middle East

The fact that these Arabs just decided to do a photo-op at a laborer’s accommodation compound, while using those same laborers as props to add to the picture’s “edgy undertone”, disgusts me. The fact that there are those who see nothing wrong with turning people who are already stripped of their humanity in the eyes of their employers into props speaks volumes on Arabs’ lack of awareness of our privilege in Arab countries as well as the ignorance this “New Middle East” is characteristic of.