Boland Blows (Her Own Horn)
Finally, the world of Arab celebrities has given birth to a celebrity that not only has beaten Kanye West’s record of self-promotion, but also beat his soaring ego into shame. Given Kanye’s legendary egotism, this was a tough job, but the search is now officially over.
Halima Boland, a Kuwaiti TV persona with a talk show that’s a smashing hit all across the Middle East, has made an appearance at a function in the UAE wearing jeans and some sort of shirt. The catch is that both her shirt and jeans either have a picture of her or her name written in bold all over the denim. To further insult our intelligence, her earrings have pictures of herself. Aside from the botched attempt to look cool, she’s also a blond, and a blondie in the Arab world sticks out just like a brownie would in Provo, Utah.
I am not sure if this is her way of dealing with laundry services that keep losing her clothes, but I’m not buying it. Unless they celebrate Halloween in Kuwait and do so in November, this stunt is lame…yes, even lamer than another Indiana Jones movie. 
Her close-up leaves me with one thought: where does the work of the good Lord ends, the work of a lousy plastic surgeon begins.
P.S. for any offended Kanye West’s fans, not to worry, he still holds the record in number of Paparazzi assaulted, as far as we can tell.
can we please have a Pan-Arab campaign for more subtle lipstick? great work again, Hanitizer!
i cant stand this woman and i refuse to believe her nauseatingly selfpromoted talkshow is a smash hit. how anyone can put up with her for more than ten seconds defies belief…not only is she offensive to look at, but she thinks shes stunning. o and her voice is as highpitched as buydatti’s, pre-sex abuse trial.
i agree with sunbula- this is awful on so many levels.
was buydatti the plaintiff or the defendant?
Wow. Just wow.
Some things, when seen, cannot be un-seen.
He was judge, jury and executioner Sunbula
I think it’s great, a bit tragic, a dash of messy but nonetheless great. A woman like her could have never existed in Kuwait 40 years ago, and the fact that she has her own TV show could only mean progress. (In the narrow sense of liberals being able to express themselves fully).
To me, it means that the progressive, liberal and somewhat permissive pop culture of the Levant (and, to a lesser extent, North Africa) is finally seeping into the decidedly traditional and conservative Gulf. This is a good harbinger of whats to come.
It seems that any woman, who was going to challenge the prevailing attitudes in her society, would have to do it in an exaggerated, drag queen caricature of herself. Sort of like Haifa did in Lebanon.
You really think thats her whole rationale? I’d just chalk it up to terrible taste, ego and opportunism.
Hanistan-why did you do this to me? I can’t visit the site until that post makes it to “older post” oblivion!
I want earrings with photos of myself on it. The pants are horrible though, 3anjad!
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