Sunday, 11 January 2009

Stamping down on cutural taboos?

Spotted at the weekend in Dubai Festival City mall: an ad for Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny - performing LIVE on 16 January, pop fans - situated at the bottom of an escalator.

To clarify, the ad was on the floor, and Festival City patrons were busily walking over Hosny's face. (Sadly our correspondent lacked a camera at the time - please feel free to pass on a pic...)

Given all the recent hullabaloo about how grave an insult the soles of a shoe are in regional culture, this seems like a strange bit of placement. Possibly Hosny wouldn't be too happy about it, either...

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