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When Lebanon Fails Its National TV Station: BeIN Sports Suing Tele Liban

Breaking news: BeIN Sports, formerly known Al Jazeera Sports, the Qatari TV station that has bought the rights for every single major sports tournament till kingdom come is suing Tele Liban over it...

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Those Worthless Lives Of The Middle East

Those worthless people of Gaza. How many have died since Tuesday? It doesn’t even matter but I’ll list the number anyway: 154, and those 154 people don’t matter. Some will chant praises to their...

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Bringing Up Your Kids in Lebanon: How To Successfully Assault “Lesser”...

“Faith in humanity abolished” is what everyone’s been speaking about today as they circulate a video of a Lebanese child beating another Syrian child at the request of the Lebanese’s parents. The video...

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5 Reasons Why You Should Go To Ellie Goulding’s Concert in Beirut

Disclaimer: I was provided with concert tickets by MixFM for my personal use; this, however, came after a friend and I had already purchased tickets for the concert, albeit lower-priced ones.  The...

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#LB4Gaza: What Was The Point?

Behold the greatness of Lebanese media. All eight of our TV stations decided to unite yesterday for Gaza in one news broadcast that has people talking about it today still, beating the typical...

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Tripoli’s Massive PR Crisis: Beer Ads Banned In The City

It must be tough being from Tripoli lately, or at least tougher than average for the people of a city long forgotten by successive governments, left to its own accord to make do with the little it...

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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Finally Makes It To Lebanon

A couple years ago, we were being taught almost everything there is to know about neurology as part of our medical education. There are countless diseases to be feared and to hope the patients who...

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If I Were a Lebanese Sunni

For a country that prides itself with its religious diversity, branding it as a tourism slogan and all the cliche that comes with it, we sure are extremely ignorant when it comes to those who don’t...

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Ashraf Rifi’s Priorities: Trying To Make Burning The ISIS Flag Illegal in...

There are many things that Ashraf Rifi should care about, as the minister of justice in Lebanon today. For instance, as a man from Tripoli he should care about the fact his own city is in deep hell...

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Da’esh Is Coming: Lebanon To Ban Porn

Move away Game of Thrones, Lebanon is in full swing to make sure the ground is fertile – no pun – for our very own dark aged winter. After minster of Justice Achraf Rifi decided there’s nothing more...

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What Lebanese Christians Need Above All Right Now

Spotted in Achrafieh “We came to slaughter you, Cross worshipers,” is the sentence that made headline news in Lebanon a couple of days ago, as the people of the Northern city Al-Mina woke up to find it...

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On A Fucked Up Lebanese Reality

6-7-11. The above numbers do not constitute my iPhone passcode. They are not random, arbitrary digits I chose to start a useless blog post that will have your head rolling: yet another nagging post by...

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Lebanese Racist Attacks Sukleen Worker For Being A Foreigner

The news about the rising racism that foreigners in Lebanon, notably Syrians, keep on rolling. Earlier this morning, Anastacia Al-Hajj was doing what she basically does every morning, take her commute...

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Lebanese Universities Should Stop Their Useless Stupid Elections

Student A from party B attacked student C from party D. The headline reads as such. Substitute the letters for whichever news website you follow for your party of choice, and you’ll get the gist of...

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Can We Get Over MTV’s “Digital” Drugs?

Because there’s absolutely nothing newsworthy reporting in Lebanon. Because everything is peachy, happy go lucky, the birds are chirping, the economy is booming, the tourists are coming in droves....

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What’s Worse Than Lebanon’s Lawmakers Stealing Our Right To Vote

June 20th, 2017. Save the date, for it will be the time Lebanon’s current parliament extends its mandate for the third time in a row. Some people like the taste of power. Those who like power in...

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This Is A Blogpost About Someone Of 1/10th Lebanese Origins Who Did Something...

It is that time of the year again, which is basically every other day, for some person you hadn’t known existed to become the talk of the Lebanese town because of something he or she did somewhere most...

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Lebanon’s “Bad” Restaurants: How The Ministry Of Health Messed Up

Earlier today, minister of health Wael Abou Faour decided to go on a press conference and out high-profile restaurants and supermarkets across Lebanon that are, according to him, selling Lebanese...

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Lebanon and Rain: غير مطابق

I bet the above pictures look familiar. You saw them happening yesterday, didn’t you? Beirut’s airport being flooded, the tunnel leading to the airport being flooded and trapping cars for hours, etc…...

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Fail: Lebanese Media Gives Oprah Cancer

So much for credible news reporting. Our newspapers have a lot on their plates. Not only do they have a pretty screwed up political situation to wrap their heads around, dismal infrastructure to cover...

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