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The New Brand of Lebanese Threats: I Will Shoot You
Things have been calm in Tripoli lately. There have been no mass shootings for Lebanese media not to report. Ramadan had been a more or less safe month on the city and Lebanon as a whole despite some...
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Roadster Diner’s Route 66 Burger
It can’t all be all seriousness all the time, right? I haven’t had a full-blown burger meal in a long time. After all, the 30+ kilos I lost since January need to be maintained somehow. But I figured...
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Elissa’s New Music Video Copies a Dalida Movie?
A little more than 12 hours after the release of the music video for her song “Te3ebt Mennak,” the source material behind Elissa’s new music video has been revealed. The director is Salim el Turk, the...
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What Happens to Lebanese “Bastard” Children?
Here’s an interesting fact for you: if a medical case qualifies as untransferable, a hospital cannot refuse to admit it. A woman in labor is one of those cases. It so happened to be my luck that I had...
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Why Are You Happy Sethrida and Samir Geagea Are Allegedly Divorcing?
Politics is everything around this place. Politicians, for us, are a love-hate relationship. Many of us say we don’t support one over the other but deep down, we always do. Most of us want to believe...
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Who Needs Cedars Anyway? Alf Malyoun Mabrouk Gebran Tawk
Mabrouk former deputee Gebran Tawk, even if a little early. I’m crossing my fingers you’d become a jeddo soon – if you’re not already one. Sorry, I’m not that well-versed in the Tawk family tree. But...
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How Can I Get Credible News in Lebanon?
Q: How do you know a person’s political/sectarian/whatever affiliation? A: Just look at the news they read/watch/get exposed to. With near 12 hour shifts at the hospital, I’m having less and less time...
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Ghadi, An Upcoming Lebanese Movie
A friend of mine just sent my way the trailer for an upcoming Lebanese movie called Ghadi, written by Lebanese comedian George Khabbaz: I found the trailer to be interesting and it looks like this...
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It’s Just A Bomb
I was watching a movie today. What a mundane and worthless sentence to start anything with. But I was watching a movie today. It was a quiet afternoon. I had seen a dear friend whom I hadn’t seen in a...
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Spotted in Harissa: Labbayka Nasrallah
I guess it must be completely natural for religious people to go to Harissa. Even I feel like going there sometimes. There’s just something about the serenity of that place. I also guess it must be...
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Caramel, The Attack, 12 Angry Lebanese on International Best Movies Lists
The Guardian has published a list of the top 10 Arab movies and they featured Zeina Daccache’s Twelve Angry Lebanese on the list, with nine other Egyptian movies of which I haven’t heard. The list’s...
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Are We Really Resilient?
The Lebanese people are proud to be resilient in the face of adversity. Tripoli may be all up in flames but Hamra would still be partying the night away like nobody cared. Dahye might be mourning its...
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Lebanon, Screw This
It’s been one week since our news broadcasts last cut out regular useless programming to let us know that a part of our country was burning to the ground following an explosion, that people were dying,...
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Day One: Rebuilding Tripoli
Day one post two blasts that killed 45 of its sons and daughters, this is Tripoli. This morning, these young men and women are not pointing fingers and expressing blame. They are not sinking to the...
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A Phone Call with Lebanon’s Police
I keep hearing about security plans for this country, especially for the places where security has been non-existent. My idea of a security plan, despite me not being an expert whatsoever, involves –...
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Screw Lebanese Media
The above sheikh was hosted on NewTV earlier tonight to talk on behalf of the people of Tripoli. I guess that city ran out of spokespeople over the past few days so the TV station in question...
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Lebanon Censors a Play About Censorship
Some officials in this country don’t seem to live in the same place as people who are worried about going by everyday, about explosions and impeding wars. Instead, they are more worried about how their...
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Apple to Lebanon: You Are Irrelevant
Even though 4G has launched in Lebanon back in May, Lebanon must get a stamp of approval from Apple in order for users to be able to use 4G on their iPhone 5. With very few phones available in the...
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America, Syria And All Those Arab Hypocrites
It’s funny how many people are suddenly against foreign interference in Syria. I’ve been wondering for the past week, as news of a possible American strike against Damascus surfaced, where all those...
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Why Lebanon’s Psychologists & Psychiatrists Are Now Talking on Homosexuality
You’ve probably heard a lot recently about how the Lebanese Psychology and Psychiatry associations have “come out” in the scientific favor of homosexual behavior in Lebanon. For those of you who don’t...
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