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My Mom, The Woman Who Beat Cancer
There are a lot of things that one could wish in the days leading up to their birthday. Mine is tomorrow. People tell you the best thing you could ask for is health. I got the best early birthday gift...
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23.
I turned 24 today. And it was a horrible day. I woke up feeling I couldn’t breathe, feeling like it was just another day to get through the motions. I went to the hospital. I took care of my patients....
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How The New 50,000 Summarizes Lebanon
Come on people, is there anything more suitable than that 50,000 to describe the state of Lebanon lately? If anything, we should look at this positively: it might be the first time ever that those in...
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“La Vie D’Adele” Will Be Shown in Lebanon
This year’s most controversial movie is probably Blue Is The Warmest Color (French title: La Vie D’Adele) by Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche. It is the winner of the Palme D’or at this year’s...
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When Lebanese People Cannot Afford Hospitals
Hospitals have a way of desensitizing you. They overwhelm you so much that shutting off that part of you that is forced to care all the time is the only way possible at coping. And no, I’m not talking...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) – Movie Review
It has become a Hollywood rule that sequels should suck. A few movies have escaped that sophomore slump. Add Catching Fire to that short list. Nay, have Catching Fire occupy an honorary spot on that...
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A Lebanese Tragedy: The Devaluation of a Life
Who gives a fuck? was the first thing I heard today when we were made aware of another Beirut explosion. It was just a bomb all over again. And people were dead, as usual, all over again. Typical and...
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How Lebanon’s Armed Forces Spend Your Money
It’d be interesting to see if there are many other non-military countries that have their armed forces spend so much money on self-indulging propaganda. The latest is a Lebanese Army billboard spread...
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Rymco’s Big Twitter Mistake
We’ve all used our Twitter or Facebook accounts to communicate with some brands, restaurants and whatnot. The idea of that brand being a few characters away and possibly getting feedback from them is...
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Maskhara At USJ: A Sum-Up of What’s Wrong With Lebanon
They say our country’s future resides on our generation. You know, the generation that supposedly doesn’t have illiterates, that has people going to our country’s universities to get the education that...
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The Jamerek That Cried Wolf
The last time Lebanese security personnel openly beat up civilians with absolutely no regards to the potential repercussions to their actions was when the Syrian security apparatus was ruling our...
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Zaatar W Zeit’s Act of Kindness
I was walking around Beirut the other day, in neighborhoods I hadn’t been to in a long time, only to find streets that have drastically changed. The most poignant moment of my walk was when I saw an...
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A Tale of Two Cities: Lebanon Edition
I went to watch a movie in Beirut yesterday. It was done by 1AM so I simply went back home. As I walked up the sidewalk leading to my apartment, I could hear the parties bustling around me. Gemmayzé...
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Hopes For A Better Lebanon: I’m Not A Martyr
“I just heard. I hope you’re okay,” is the text I sent to the people who mattered to me this past Friday, moments after I had seen a column of smoke erupt in the distance from the hospital floor I had...
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Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli’s “Al Sa’eh” Library Burned
2014 is off to a horrible start in Lebanon. The explosion that took place in Beirut yesterday, in the year’s first few days, has been paralleled by another act of terrorism in Lebanon’s northern...
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Rebuilding & Restocking Tripoli’s “Al Sa’eh” Library: The Full Story
It takes a lot to get the whole country to gather behind a national tragedy lately. They tend to be more in the political eye of the beholder as we feel compassion with the people we can relate with...
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Her (2013) – Movie Review
Talk about hitting the ball out of the park. I am in awe. Spike Jonze’s new movie, Her, features Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly who, in the not-so-distant future, is depressed as he goes about...
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Aline Lahoud On The Voice France
It seems I was the last to know that a Lebanese would be competing again on France’s The Voice, but I daresay the Lebanese candidate this year is probably the best so far with Salwa el Katrib’s...
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Instagramming A Suicide Bomber
#Instabomb. I’ve been wondering if our media salivates like Pavlov’s dog when they get wind of yet another explosion takes place in this country. Their coverage sure always sounds like a kid who was...
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Lebanese Propaganda 101: Sa7eb Mabda2
Lebanese highways change a lot in the space of a week. Not the roads, obviously, but all those billboards overflowing on their sides sure do. While going back home North yesterday, one particular...
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