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MTV: Lebanon’s Prime Censoring TV Station – Why They Fired Joe Maalouf
Update: the plot thickens. It might be ALL electoral according to this (link). News that MTV canceled Enta Horr spread like wildfire over the weekend (link). Speculations about the reason why MTV...
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Rest in Peace Achrafieh?
(Picture source) We have all been wondering for years what that hanging bridge was doing next to Sagesse school, as we headed towards or out of Achrafieh. I didn’t even know it was a bridge until very...
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MTV’s Side of the Firing of Joe Maalouf
A friend of mine just sent the following screenshots my way of Jihad el Murr’s explanation of why MTV decided to fire Enta Horr’s Joe Maalouf (link), following the controversial episode during which he...
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Anthony Touma Loses On France’s The Voice
After a successful run on the second season of France’s The Voice, the Lebanese candidate Anthony Touma lost in the show’s semi-final to Olympe. Despite winning the public vote with a huge margin:...
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MTV, OTV & LBC’s Sunday Programming: The Graduation Ceremony of the American...
Graduation ceremonies are horrible. My AUB 2010 ceremony felt endless. Names upon names got called out as we sat there sweating like pigs under the June sun. I’d never do it again. But Lebanon’s TV...
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Why The “Anthony Touma”s of Lebanon Make Us Proud
When I spent a month in France, back in August of 2012, I was somewhat surprised to find most people there had some gross misconceptions about Lebanon. I had thought that French people out of everyone...
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LBC’s New TV Show: Splash!
I get competition shows that are centered around singing or dancing. I may not be a fan or watch them but at least I can fathom their premise. Then comes Splash! also known as LBC is really desperate...
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Lebanese Blogger Gets Assaulted In Beirut’s Downtown… For Taking A Picture
Habib Batah, a professor at LAU and blogger at The Beirut Report, got physically assaulted today by a bunch of henchmen at Downtown’s soon-to-be-constructed District S… because he dared take a picture...
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Fadel Shaker Wants To Fight in Syria
I find it very hard to believe this is the same man who, a few years ago, was busy churning out hits about romance and love. Looking at him now, singing about love is the furthest thing from what I’d...
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The Great Gatsby (2013) – Movie Review
Because every American classic novel needs to be turned into a modern movie, here comes Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerlad’s The Great Gatsby in a polarizing effort to say the least. For the...
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What Lebanese Christians Are Not Entitled To
Entitlement. The word thrown around so loosely lately it’s become the go-to term in Lebanese politics, especially when it comes to Christians and their – forgive me, our – rights. As such, I have...
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Lebanese Politicians And Their Love For The Handicapped Parking Spot
If Freud were alive, he’d make some twisted psychoanalysis out of this. Lebanese politicians have a natural affinity for the handicapped parking spot at malls and whatnot. I wonder what could be...
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Oil Was Discovered in Lebanon Back in 1953
I recently stumbled over this newspaper clip from 1953 that talks about the discovery of an oil field in the Bekaa valley as well as the launching of a digging site to extract the oil present at the...
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What Happened At LAU With The Lebanese President’s Son
I can say with absolute certainty that terrorizing campuses is not something they teach us in medical school – and I’m going to the same medical school Mr. Charbel Sleiman went to. Why can’t I be the...
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Lebanon’s Oldest Church Discovered & Will Be Destroyed Soon?
Downtown Beirut the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to archeology. After a blogger (link) and Daily Star journalists were assaulted for taking pictures at the District S site, it turned out a...
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Lana Del Rey Coming To Lebanon For The Byblos International Festival on July...
It’s OFFICIAL (link) According to Frodo’s Blog who has been actively leaking major performers throughout the past several months, the rumors about Lana Del Rey coming to the Byblos festival this...
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Lebanon’s Byblos Festival Line-up: Yes for Lana Del Rey
Apologies for the hassle regarding the festival’s lineup. I guess that’s what happens when your source is being sabotaged by someone. Calvin Harris is NOT replacing Lana Del Rey at Byblos this year....
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A Rape Attempt in Hamra
A 20 year old girl recently suffered through a rape attempt while going back to her apartment in Hamra. The man followed her to her apartment where he attacked her and ordered her not to scream. But...
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Ministry of Culture To Buy Land & Save Lebanon’s Oldest Church in Downtown...
Source: The Beirut Report The site in Downtown Beirut, which is called “The Landmark” and at which a future hotel and mall were to be built, turned out to be an archeological jewel for Lebanon,...
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Lebanese Startup “Transterra Media” Among World’s Most Unlikely Successes
Mashable has compiled a list of 25 startup companies at unlikely places around the world and a Lebanese startup called Transterra Media came in on the list at #23. According to their website (link),...
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