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Mne2leba Ta3ate
Knowing some people can truly help. They could provide you with a job, get you out of a tough spot, provide you with a decent future. The saying goes: behind every comfortable man in this country is a...
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My Lebanese Bloggers Reinvent The World Entry: Bionic Humans
The following is my submission to the competition supervised by the ministry of telecommunications. The moment you wake up to the world, all information you get is acquired through your senses. You...
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The Phoenicians Discovered America?
Move over Mr. Columbus, our ancestors are in the house. According to this article by CNN (link), our good old Phoenicians may have beat Christopher Columbus to discover good old (or new) America by...
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Let’s Talk About Al Ebra2 El Mousta7il (الإبراء المستحيل)
“Have you read Al Ebra2 el Mousta7il?” One of my FPM relatives asked me a few days ago, a smile spreading across her face like a three year old on Christmas Eve. “Nope. Have you?” I replied. “Not yet....
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The Death of the Lebanese Dekkéné
Aabrine Street was, until recently, one of the last remaining Achrafieh streets that still contained a flair of an old Lebanese life that you wouldn’t believe still existed in Beirut, especially...
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The Perks of Being Lebanese
Back in December, I hosted a photographer who wanted to visit Lebanon in order to experience our on-the-edge diverse lifestyle. I showed him around as much as I could given the short time I had, taking...
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Tripoli’s Gang of Thieves & Lebanon’s Police
A friend of mine parked his motorcycle yesterday in front of a house he was visiting in my hometown only to hear the engine ignite a few minutes later. He ran outside and saw a stranger driving his...
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Lebanon Has The Eighth Wonder of the World
Our country is unique. If you thought our attempt at breaking into the seven wonders of nature with Jeita Grotto was a bust, think again because Lebanon has established an eighth wonder. And get this –...
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The Lebanese Women Who Hate Women
She goes to her friend’s house with a thick layer of makeup on her face. She fakes a smile and laughs through her pain. She pushes away the tears. No one knows and no one will ever know. Her mother had...
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Racism With Middle East Airlines (MEA). Again.
I recently got a tip from a reader regarding another racism incidence with Lebanon’s airline carrier MEA that is not dissimilar to the one that became everyone’s talk a few months ago, culminating in...
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Ahmad el Assir’s Money Sources
I recently read an article about the financial means of Sunni extremist cleric Ahmad el Assir. After all, those weapons (that he doesn’t have) and the growing support he is garnering are not coming out...
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Lebanon’s Obsession With “Biggest”
We are welcoming a new “biggest” achievement in the circle of things no one else in the world has beaten us to. The Bekaai, Becharre-wannabe, town of Deir El Ahmar is building the world’s “biggest...
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Could Patriarch Raï Become The Next Pope?
The conclave of Cardinals in charge of electing the new pope to replace Benedict XVI is currently underway at the Sistine chapel in the Vatican. You’re out of luck if you are a Roman tourist at this...
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The Lebanese Anti-Syrian “Racism”
“I am apprehensive about the situation of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon.” The aforementioned sentence is enough to get a baggage of racism be thrown on your shoulder by people who believe you are not...
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On Some Lebanese Atheists
My best friend is an atheist. And he’s awesome at it. You know why? Because of all the times we’ve discussed religion, which is very often and on so many occasions I’ve lost track, he has never...
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The Problem With Banning Pork and Alcohol At Some Lebanese Restaurants
Gino Raidy’s encounter at ZWZ’s Hamra Branch went viral across Lebanon’s internet community very fast. His shock that a restaurant like ZWZ, infamous for his Halloumi bacon sandwiches, would actually...
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Lebanon’s Porn Habits
Popsci has recently published, off of a website called PornMD, an aggregation of every country’s porn habits based on the search items users who are located in that country use while accessing some...
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A Blast From The Distant Lebanese Past
We have locusts! At least that’s what news agencies are saying because I haven’t seen any nor do I want to see any. For the first time in a long time Lebanon is being hit by “el jarad” being brought up...
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The Lebanese Rocket Society (Documentary) – Review
Brought to us by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, The Lebanese Rocket Society is a documentary about a phase of Lebanese history that exists between both of our civil wars, from 1960 to...
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Joe Kodeih’s Le Jocon – Review
Lebanese comedian Joe Kodeih’s latest offering is Le Jocon, a play whose title is a play off the french name of DaVinci’s Mona Lisa. Le Jocon starts with Kodeih visiting a psychatrist who immediately...
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