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The Town of Jebla in Batroun
Welcome to Jebla. People are happy here. Thank you Mr. Sakalaki. Filed under: Humor Tagged: Batroun, Jebla, Lebanon
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Lebanese Christian Egoism
Fake-sympathy. That’s what many Lebanese Christians express to news that touch upon other parts in the country but not them. Of course, it’s not necessarily an attribute to that part of Lebanese...
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Same Trailer Different Park (Album Review) – Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves arrives in a music scene that’s focusing more on shock factors in order to get somewhere and growingly dumbed down lyrics to appeal to the masses. The louder music gets, the sillier...
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Lebanon’s VIP Cinemas & Empire Premiere
Before we begin, I must insist that you all go watch the movie Amour (my review), whose poster is shown at the side of the above picture, when it’s released in Lebanese cinemas next week. It doesn’t...
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Get Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code & A Sneak Peek into Inferno For Free
I just noticed that Dan Brown’s most famous book The Da Vinci Code, which is still banned in Lebanon, is available for free until March 24th as an e-book from all major retailers online. So if you...
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Beirut Goes To Storybrooke
While watching the newest episode of American TV Show “Once Upon a Time,” which flashbacks to the earlier days of Storybrooke, one of the characters was reading a newspaper in which former...
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My Salafist Friend
I was one of those people who, less than a year ago, equated Salafism with extremism. They were all bearded freaks who wanted nothing else but to establish the Islamist Republic of Lebanon and either...
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The Greatest Woman I Know
I didn’t want to write for Mother’s Day this year. But then it dawned on me that the only tangible thing that I can give my mother – at least on her day – is my words, however silly they may be. I am a...
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The General Situation in Lebanon
The people of Bab el Tebbane and Jabal Mohsen live off less than $4 per day. They cannot afford bread. They cannot afford food. They cannot afford basic accommodations. But they can fire missiles at...
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Lebanese Lina Makhoul Wins The Voice Israel
The myth goes that Lina Makhoul is a 19 year old Israeli-Palestinian Christian from Acre. She participated in the second season of Israel’s version of The Voice. I had blogged about her before (here)...
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See You Again (Single Review) – Carrie Underwood
Originally written for Narnia’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, See You Again is the 4th single off Carrie Underwood’s platinum-selling album “Blown Away.” After the dark tale of a wife and a mistress...
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Beirut Bel Aswad Wel Abiad (Beirut in Black & White) – A Lebanese Short Movie
This Woody Allen-inspired short movie is one of the best ones I’ve seen lately. It’s directed by Alba student Marie-Louise Elia and produced by Marie-Noel Bou Haila (A lot of Maries in one sentence)....
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Racist Lebanese Municipalities or National Policy Against Syrians?
My uncle was shot and killed 14 years ago today, March 26th 1999. His killer’s name was Tony Rouhana. He was from my hometown, Ebrine. He was Lebanese. He was an active wartime member of one of North...
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Your Healthy Dose of Lebanese Reality
I submitted my papers to get the Schengen visa for a couple of weeks in June this morning. My appointment was at 8:30 so I went there early. We stood in the cold, clinging tightly to a folder of...
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Here’s To Good Friends
Here’s to those few people that force you put your guard down to let them in. They don’t ask anything in return except some time well spent: having impromptu lunches to laugh your heart out, candid...
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The Tripoli You Don’t Get To See
I can go to Beirut today and take my camera with me. I can go to Hay el Sellom and take as many pictures, film as much footage as my heart pleases and broadcast them online with one tag only: THIS. IS....
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Excellent Lebanese Customer Service: Roadster Diner
The amount of professionalism at Roadster Diner keeps blowing me away. It could be because we’re not used to such levels of courtesy with customers in Lebanon. During lent last year, the only and last...
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Vote For “A Separate State of Mind!”
Overwhelming success! Celebrity endorsements! Awesome blog! You don’t believe me? Well, check these out: Well, not quite. The above tweets are not real. But they could have been. Am I right? Ok, I’ll...
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Spring Breakers Won’t Be Released in Lebanon
It may have been received with mixed reviews but we won’t get the chance to judge Spring Breakers ourselves, as per a Grand Cinemas tweet – one of Lebanon’s main cinema chains. Empire isn’t showing...
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Carrefour Lebanon’s Tough Path To Success?
Carrefour was one of the simple pleasures of my life in France. It was close to my apartment – a two minute walk. I would find everything that I needed among its not so numerous shelves: the place was...
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