Baksheesh

The Arabist has been run by freelance journalists since 2003 as a labor of love. We don't make much from ads, so please contribute to keep this site going.

Search


Your Middle East is a digital newspaper about the Middle East for the web, iPad and iPhone.


Get Arabist contributor Ashraf Khalil's new book!

Social

Subscribe

Get Arabist via email: 

The Arabist Podcast
Sponsored Links

UK City Guides

        Enquira Local 


For low prices on Las Vegas Show Tickets shop ShowTickets.com for your upcoming Las Vegas trip.

Partners

 

Powered by Squarespace
« Links for August 29 - September 7 2010 | Main | Links for August 21-28 2010 »
11:45AM

A caption contest

This Reservoir Dogs stile photo of the recent peace talks summit in Washington is begging for a creative caption. How about, "The Usual Suspects"?

(And how does Netanyahu always manage to look so sneaky?)

Reader Comments (24)

or obama can channel jay z: "i've got 99 problems but a bitch aint one"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk

Sep 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM | Unregistered Commenteraron

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon..."

Sep 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM | Unregistered CommenterTom

Well one song from Reservoir Dogs comes to mine:

"Jokers to the left of me, clowns to the right, here I am trapped in the middle with you..."

Sep 2, 2010 at 1:02 PM | Unregistered CommenterWill

Abb-ASS looks soooo subservient!!

Sep 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM | Unregistered Commenterpalestinian

Four Weddings and a Funeral
not sure about that one though

Sep 2, 2010 at 3:54 PM | Unregistered CommenterBen

or what about

Five Deadly Venoms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Deadly_Venoms

Five Graves to Cairo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Graves_to_Cairo

Sep 2, 2010 at 4:03 PM | Unregistered CommenterBen

Last try - I think "The Expendables" is definitely appropriate

Sep 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM | Unregistered CommenterBen

Abbas and Netanyahu have grey hair, Obama and Abdallah are actually young......

Sep 2, 2010 at 5:26 PM | Unregistered CommenterMMF

"Here we go again. Again" from a parody trailer in Tropic Thunder.

Sep 2, 2010 at 6:53 PM | Unregistered CommenterPaul

Coming soon to a government approved cinema near you: Four wise guys and a re-animated corpse.

Sep 2, 2010 at 8:32 PM | Unregistered CommenterPrestwick

"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"?

Sep 2, 2010 at 11:02 PM | Unregistered Commenterjk

backstreet boys- we're back!

Sep 2, 2010 at 11:42 PM | Unregistered Commenterfalasteenyia

if Abass, Mubark and Abudellah are supposed to be the arabic side, isn't unfair for Netanyahu to be alone in the other side. and if they're all together who in earth did they come to talk to with?

Sep 3, 2010 at 1:15 AM | Unregistered Commenterlama

"The Peace Process: with a vengeance" Coming soon to a theatre near you.

Sep 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM | Unregistered CommenterD

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles

...pr try this one, by the same man

"Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows."

Sep 3, 2010 at 5:53 PM | Unregistered CommenterAmr

How about: welad el-kalb (with all the arabic culture and arabic anger in the word) ... literal translation "the sons of dogs"...with all due respect to dogs.

Sep 3, 2010 at 6:28 PM | Unregistered CommenterMOE

another one: As7ab el-sa3adah, wa al-galalah wa el-somoooo, etphoooo (literally; your honors: presidents, kings and amirs: spit spit spit).

Sep 3, 2010 at 6:30 PM | Unregistered CommenterMOE

bab el hara part 3645

Sep 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM | Unregistered Commenterfalasteenyia

"It's not funny, Hosni! Every time Benny does that, they throw us outta the strip club!"

"Mahmoud, I can't project the right image if you keep calling me 'Bama in public!"

"Look guys, if we don't have an agreement by Christmas, Michelle's gonna think we spent the whole time watching porn and football."

"Some day we'll be back, and we're gonna make those bullies give Abdullah back his skateboard!"

Sep 5, 2010 at 5:51 AM | Unregistered CommenterOtroBaboso

I'd throw in a few French titles - "Le mépris", "La haine", "Le chagrin et la pitié", "Fantasia chez les ploucs"...

Sep 5, 2010 at 1:51 PM | Unregistered CommenterIbn Kafka

"Some can walk and chew. We can walk and go nowhere". (How far can one go with hands crossed, anyway?)

Sep 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM | Unregistered Commentermj

"Ahmedi-Nejad, here we come!"
or
"catwalk 4 peace", make that 4 p's (and a king).

Sep 6, 2010 at 7:45 PM | Unregistered Commenterless

Sneak and the City

Sep 6, 2010 at 10:14 PM | Unregistered Commenterpalestinian

I knew it was reminding me of something but it took me 10 days to come up with it. Here you go: http://mideasti.blogspot.com/2010/09/but-are-they-earps-or-clantons.html.

Sep 16, 2010 at 4:44 AM | Unregistered CommenterMichael Dunn
Comments for this entry have been disabled. Additional comments may not be added to this entry at this time.