Beirut Souks Spectacle

What's the story behind the dummy lying face down beneath a bench in Beirut Souks? At first I thought she was a human making a statement of some sort, as even up close, the body seems real. But yesterday, as I stopped to study the spectacle after work, a fellow bystander explained she was just a dummy, and noticing my disbelief, he walked up to her and nudged her with his foot. The body easily gave.

Bizarre and creepy. What's the scoop?

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  1. Unrelated, but can you please try these: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/pizza-hut-middle-east-kit-kat-pops_n_1912387.html?utm_hp_ref=food and let us know all about them?

    Thanks! :D

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    1. They're not available in Beirut. If I were to guess, they're probably a hit in UAE and the Gulf, where other interesting "novelties", like Burger King's pizza-burger, have been introduced:

      http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/health/is-it-a-burger-is-it-a-pizza-however-you-slice-it-its-big

      See also Pizza Hut's Crown Crust pizza:

      http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/05/01/151781785/what-pizza-huts-crown-crust-pizza-says-about-global-fast-food-marketing

      (By the way, it's totally untrue that people in this part of the world--at least in Lebanon--can't discern between different American foods as the NPR article suggests. Lebanese diners are very savvy of many international cuisines, and I'm sure few would fall for the burger/pizza fusion. That's probably why it never made it here!)

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  2. Turns out the woman is an art installation by famous artist Mark Jenkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Jenkins)!

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