Why is a woman dressing up as a bomb on the streets of Beirut?
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/jan/14/why-woman-dressing-up-bomb-beirut
Shocked by the recent spate of bombings in her homeland, Lebanese artist Rima Najdi donned a fake suicide bomber costume and hit the streets to see how people would react.
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“It will be interesting to see what would happen, for example, if a man did the performance,” she says. “I think gender did play a role in people’s reactions.” Najdi is thinking here of some of the more “flirtatious” responses she had, with one man jibing: “If suicide bombers looked like you, I would love to Die.”