Based on analyses of French State discourse following the aftermath of the Beirut harbourexplosion in Lebanon, this thesis investigates and argues to what extent and in which ways thepost-harbour blast statements by French President Emmanuel Macron can be understood asneo-colonial and orientalist. By looking at these statements, the thesis argues thathumanitarianism and saviourism are discursive tools employed by the French state to extendneo-colonial and oriental reach of power over Lebanon. The thesis utilizes a methodologicalapproach of critical discourse analysis held against a orientalist and neo-colonial theoreticalcanvas that precede this thesis. The thesis argues that these four elements combine into adiscursive blend that in-turn blurs each element in what I argue make out a form of discursivetheatrics where little substantial change politically, however, can be seen as a tool to enforceor reproduce the structural status quo. That is, the continued French neo-colonial dominanceover Lebanon, an age-old orientalist ploy that exerts one country’s power over another.