The Day I met Nadine Labaki

Thanks to Nadine Labaki's website, I was informed that the movie Caramel will be opening at the London Film Festival this year. I hurried to check the website, and I actually found it there and I booked two tickets.

A month later, the time has come. After I left the station, some work in a road messed up how to get the cinema in my head so we had to take a huge turn to reach it. We reached it at the end, a bit late. I wasn't worried about the movie, because I've already seen in back in Beirut. But I was worried that I missed whoever concerned with the movie as it's a première.

But to my surprise, after the movie ended - Nadine got on stage and I was applauding so hard I could barely feel my hands! They asked who has any questions, one only seemed to raise her hand and the other one was me! I asked her does she feel in such place, breaking boundaries getting to places, that she's representing Lebanese Woman in particular or all the women from the Arab world?

After she left the stage, I went, shook her hands and introduced myself to her. Then talked a bit and I got a photo with her. WHEE, the joyness!

Nadine isn't just another celebrity to me, I seriously love her work and insist that she is one of the biggest creative powers in the Arab World.