Myriam Fares, who sings the 2022 World Cup anthem, wore blackface in the music video for her song 'Goumi' in 2018.
At the time of the video’s release, Arabic-language outlets and Twitter users criticized Fares for appropriating African culture and engaging in blackface., an English-language outlet focused on the Arab world, published an op-ed from an unnamed writer, who criticized Fares, a non-Black Arab person, for engaging in “a practice that’s deeply rooted in insulting and degrading Black people.”
“At no point should it be accepted for a non-black Arab to paint their skin black or appropriate Black culture,” the critic wrote. “Certainly not whilst runs rampant in most countries, and certainly not whilst the Arabic word for ‘slave’ is still used interchangeably with ‘black.
This is not an exotic quirky tattoo 🤪🥵 my grandmas were both forced to have them at a very young age for protection and tribal reasons. You have enough money so educate yourself and stop offending a different culture every time your albums flop, Lebanon has its culture enjoy it
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