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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift [Single Review]
Welcome back the mega-successful Taylor Swift and her catchy tunes and lyrics. That Taylor Swift was also 18. If you expect some more maturity with Taylor Swift’s newest offering, you are vastly...
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift (Lyrics)
My review of the song can be found here. [Verse 1:] I remember when we broke up the first time, Saying this is it, I’ve had enough Cause like we hadn’t seen each other in a month when you said you...
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Attention Syrian Workers in Lebanon
You are forbidden from roaming certain places after specific hours. Do so and you will be severely punished. Welcome to the republic of shame. (Source) Filed under: Lebanon Tagged: Bhmadoun, Lebanon,...
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The Mekdad Clan is on Facebook
It seems there’s a new family in town to take into consideration these days. What’s special about this family though isn’t that it has its own Facebook page. They have their own military wing to bring...
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Lebanon Described in 1870
This seems very familiar, right? Some things may have changed. But the crux of it all is still the same. It’s been 142 years and this still rings true. Should this sadden us? Or should this open up the...
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Welcome to the Republic of Anarchy
Welcome to Lebanon. Those were the words I thought I would be very keen to hear halfway through my stay in France. I’m almost two weeks in. And the last thing I want to do is go back. As I sat in my...
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Alfa Introduces New Plans: “Midline” – With a Hilarious Ad!
After a rather successful introduction of U-chat to the Lebanese market, Alfa has come up with two new bundles for its customers, this time for postpaid users. And they have called the new lines...
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Lebanon’s Colored Shades of Racism
Wel lebneneh? El lebneneh 3onsore. El lebnene 7mar. El lebnene sheyef 7alo. Those were some of the answers some Lebanese decided to come up with to the question asked by the Cheyef 7alak video above....
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Lebanon’s Twisted Perception of Beauty
When a journalist wrote an article in the Huffington Post about Lebanon’s babes and botox in its capital, many Lebanese stood against the article in uproar. This is not us. These are not our women....
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Dear Fu*ked Up Arab Countries
This is going to be short and straight to the point. Some Arab countries, notably those who happen to float on oil, have decided to throw expulsion threats at the Lebanese living there if anything...
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Dear Lebanese Restaurant Owners “Affected” By The Smoking Ban
For years, you have been making money off my lungs. For years, you have been forcing me to indirectly gulp down clouds of smoke with whatever I had ordered to eat at your premises. For years, you made...
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There Are No More Lebanese Prisoners in Syrian Jails
For years, some Lebanese politicians have been bombarding us with the same phrase: we have gotten word from Bashar el Assad, and his father before him, that there are no more Lebanese prisoners in...
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Shopping Bags at Lebanon’s American Eagle
This is the shopping bag one of my Facebook friends came back with after dropping by for a little shopping at American Eagle. Yes, this is in Lebanon. While I’m not the most panicky about...
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Mashrou3 Leila Not Opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers in Lebanon Anymore
I really don’t get the BDS movement people in Lebanon. Do they think what they’re doing is democratic or do they know what they’re doing is total nonsense? Mashrou3 Leila, even though I don’t like...
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A Day in the Life of a Lebanese BDS Supporter
He wakes up in the morning. It’s 8 am. Way too early. What is needed when you need your body to get going? Yes, coffee. So he tiredly makes his way to the kitchen, rips open a pack of Nescafé and pours...
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Lebanese Restaurants Not Following The Smoking Ban: Feniqia, Jbeil
I was taking my Australian cousins out to dinner today and I decided to have them try out Feniqia in Jbeil. One of my cousins, who has been visiting Lebanon more or less frequently lately, complained...
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Welcome To The Republic of Cheap Controversy
We, as Lebanese, sure know how to breed controversies. We love it. We adore it. We feed our need for gossip off of it. And it happens so often without it becoming redundant. We have a need for it. The...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert in Lebanon: Look At All Those Traitors!
Strip them of their passport and national IDs. Take away their Lebanese pride! Shame on them! Shame on the few thousand people that attended this inhumane abomination! By all accounts, the concert was...
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Ronan (Lyrics) – Taylor Swift
Ronan is the new Taylor Swift song that was debuted at the “Stand Up For Cancer” event. It is inspired by a blogpost that Maya Thompson, the mother of 4 year old Ronan Thompson, wrote after her son...
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Observations of a First Timer at Casino Du Liban
Casino plans somehow came up yesterday afternoon and we actually acted them out – for the first time ever. So we drove to Lebanon’s only casino in order to waste away some hard-earned money (or not)....
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