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R.I.P. Lebanese Legend Sabah
You’ve killed her a thousand times over with those senseless jokes, the rumors and then some more jokes when the rumors were debunked. But this morning, Lebanese singer Sabah passed away at the age of...
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Extremism in Lebanon: Why Are You Shocked The Red Cross Was Banned From A...
Breaking news out of Lebanon today, because those are very few and scarce, but a Red Cross volunteer had his colleagues banned from entering the mosque where his family was receiving condolences for...
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Beirut Is a New 7 Wonders Of The World Cities!
Remember that competition that found us voting our asses off for Jeita a couple of years ago? The one where we had pinned all our touristic dreams on? You know… *looks around to see if someone is...
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Hiba Tawaji To Be On France’s The Voice
I thought the 4th season of The Voice France (La Plus Belle Voix) passed by without us noticing because there wasn’t a Lebanese candidate there. The first season of the show had Johnny Maalouf, who...
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Tripoli’s Fayha Choir: An Absolutely Majestic Experience
I guess you can say I was super lucky to have been in Tripoli this past Friday. I was out and about with a friend in a city that is slowly but surely celebrating Christmas: trees, decorations,...
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13 Lebanese That Made It Big In 2014
2014 has been a pretty messed up year on the Lebanese scale, but amidst all of it, there were a few Lebanese whose news served as a diversion from all the mayhem. Their accomplishments made us happy,...
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Hijabi Porn and National Anthem Pride: Lebanon’s New Joy, #1 Porn Star Mia...
Being the Switzerland and Paris of the Middle East, it is our duty to prove that we are open minded and not as wretched as the region we are in. Therefore, it is with blinding enthusiasm that Lebanese...
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Pictures of Lebanon from the International Space Station
On Christmas Day, the International Space Station (ISS) wanted to show a different side of the region where Christmas came to be. For a place known to be war-torn, with blood-filled conflicts taking...
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The Charlie Hebdo Covers The Terrorists Don’t Want You To See
This is to those who think honor is killing someone who offends you. This is to those who think killing someone who expresses his basic freedom of speech can be rationalized, those people who are the...
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#JeSuisAhmed: The World That Fears Muslims
A couple of days ago, I decided that my reaction to the Charlie Hebdo attack would be to share the covers that had those journalists killed. I didn’t say whether I agreed with their content because...
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#JusticeForYves: When Lebanon Is A Jungle, Not A Country
Yves Nawfal was celebrating his 26th birthday at a pub called Powder in Faraya on Friday when he got in an altercation with a guy named Charbel Khalil and his friends over a girl. Normally, as is...
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Abou Ali Issa: The Lebanese Hero Of The Tripoli Explosions
Two days ago, Tripoli got hit with death yet again as a terrorist attack took place in its Jabal Mohsen neighborhood. The politics and intricacies of the attack are many, but there is one story of...
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#JusticeForYves: The Killer Has Been Caught & This Is How You All Helped
The story of Yves Nawfal has been one of the most striking pieces of news to shake the country over the past few days. If you haven’t heard of Yves or the cold and calculated way he was killed, check...
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5 Issues More Important Than Miss Lebanon’s Selfie With Miss Israel
Ladies and gentlemen, as another week rolls by, we have another scandal about which you will probably be talking for the next seven days. Sally Jreij, our lovely Miss Lebanon, is in one hell of a...
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5 Major Projects To Take Place In Beirut: The City Losing Itself To Money
Between articles about how empty Downtown is and a reiteration of every form of the word “Phoenix” possible, there has been plenty that international publications have said about our capital. But there...
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The Names & Faces of Lebanese Army Soldiers Who Died Defending Us Against...
A lot of the Lebanese populace will be spending this weekend either skiing their days away at resorts or clubbing the nights at various parties across the country, or, ironically, watching the...
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How Hiba Tawaji Completely Owned France’s The Voice
Hiba Tawaji just blew everyone away at France’s The Voice, as was expected. She started off singing Michel Legrand’s “Les Moulins De Mon Coeur” before going into her own Lebanese version of the song...
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No Hezbollah, We Are Not Ready For War
When Hezbollah retaliated by attacking the Israeli army convoy on Wednesday, my knee-jerk reaction was to call my friend who was the most touched by the 2006 war. She’s a medical student in my class,...
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Simon, The Boy We All Helped Fight Leukemia, Has Passed Away
It seems like it was just yesterday that Simon’s story became a Lebanese headline story that got people from all over the world to help him reach the $60,000 goal needed for his bone marrow transplant...
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How Lebanon Absolutely Failed When ISIS Killed Our Soldiers
August 2nd, 2014. It has been such a long time. That was at a time when the Lebanese army was fighting ISIS at our north-eastern border with Syria. Nowadays, we call it “The Battle of Arsal.” And on...
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