On Raï’s Visit to Jerusalem: Get Off His Back
Here’s a round-up of your current “it” Lebanese news. Patriarch Raï is visiting occupied Palestine/Israel/Whatever on May 25th. Some Lebanese are not happy about his upcoming visit. Those Lebanese are...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s Wedding Will Take Place in Lebanon
A friend jokingly recently said that never since the days of the biggest plate of Tabbouleh have we had a surge in our national pride as when Amal Alamuddin, the international Lebanese British lawyer,...
View ArticleAvril Lavigne To Be Part Of The Byblos Festival?
In case this year’s summer festival lineups including Ellie Goulding, Beirut, Stromae and Massive Attack wasn’t impressive enough, it seems there’s another hotshot act who’s making a detour to this...
View ArticleHelp Out Simon Beat Leukemia!
Simon Badaoui is a young man and Red Cross volunteer from Batroun who used to go to my school, whose brother was my classmate and who got diagnosed with leukemia four years ago. Today, Simon Badaoui...
View ArticleHow You Saved Simon’s Life
A couple of days ago, Simon was a 23 year old boy struggling with his family to cling to his life as leukemia rattled through his body. A couple of days ago, few people knew who Simon was apart from...
View ArticleLebanon’s Telecom Sector To Get A Much-Needed Overhaul Soon?
There was a time when Lebanon’s internet gave us more trouble than its intended purpose to make our lives easier, but would you believe me if I told you that the age of unlimited internet packages in...
View ArticleWhen Your Facebook Account Is News Material: Lebanon’s “First” Same-Sex...
A few hours ago, the name Georges Massad meant nothing to the Lebanese populace. In the coming days, because we have nothing else to do, watch as he becomes the most discussed figure – save for an...
View ArticleLebanon’s New 3G, DSL & Phone Prices
I was invited today to the press conference that’s announcing the new tariffs for Lebanon’s upcoming telecom upgrades. Pre-Conference Tidbits: At the Ministry of Telecommunications is now various...
View ArticleLebanon’s First Elections in 5 Years Is Syrian
Let’s make a differential diagnosis of Lebanese traffic. The forthcoming list cannot be comprehensive as Lebanese traffic is incomprehensible, but here it goes anyway: Regular commute to work, Regular...
View ArticleLebanon Attempting Modernity: Cross vs Hijab At SABIS?
Of the many things Lebanese pretend to have is an open mind, notably when it comes to those who are of a different sect. The catchphrase goes: welcome to the country where 18 sects live together...
View ArticleReligion & Politics: What Happened At The Sagesse – Riyadi Basketball Game
Here’s another concept that it seems to be tough for Lebanon to grasp: sportsmanship. For the second time in two consecutive games, Lebanon’s top 2 basketball teams were found at each other’s throats...
View ArticleWhen Lebanese Students Become A Bargaining Chip: What’s Happening To Official...
Lebanon’s parliament has failed yet again. It failed to elect a president for the Republic over the past 3 months. It failed again yesterday. It failed to secure the promised demands of Lebanon’s...
View ArticleWhy You Should Give “The Fault In Our Stars” A Shot
Let’s consider this a break from a state of Lebanese depression. The new “it” movie that everyone’s talking about, based on John Green’s novel of the same title, is The Fault In Our Stars. Teenage...
View ArticleCongrats Lebanon, We’ve Successfully Begged A World Cup
After weeks of suspense, the country can rejoice today with the news that our long forgotten national television, Tele Liban, will broadcast the FIFA World Cup, set to begin in Brazil in just a few...
View ArticleThe Fault In Our Stars (2014) – Movie Review
There’s a multitude of ways that movie adaptations of books can go. They can span from an absolute abomination that gets fans of the novel rallied up against the atrocity they see on screen or it can...
View ArticleOops, Sorry For “Accidentally” Destroying Your Mar Mkhayel Home
While everyone jumped from one pub to the next in Mar Mkhayel yesterday to catch the first game of the FIFA World Cup, there was a woman there standing in disbelief in the midst of her living room,...
View ArticleGetting Assaulted By A Taxi Driver in Beirut
It was Sunday June 15th, a few hours before starting my final year of medicine, as I headed to the graduation dinner of colleagues at my university. I took the unfortunate decision to go to the...
View ArticleZara Lebanon Ripping Off Customers?
A friend recently sent two pictures my way of people they know shopping at one of Zara’s shops in Beirut and discovering that they were possibly victims of fraud by a chain that many believed wouldn’t...
View ArticlePatriarch Raï Equates Terrorists With Atheists & Non-Religious
It’s yet another Sunday in Lebanon and another opportunity for the Maronite Patriarch to offer his words of wisdom, in his weekly sermon, to the ears that would listen. It’s also yet another Sunday in...
View ArticleWhere To Have Breakfast In Tripoli This Ramadan
With Tripoli’s Mayor hell-bent on turning his city into the Lebanese version of Qandahar, which years of constant fights didn’t do, with his recent request to effectively stop publicizing breakfasts...
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