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Breaking Down Haifa Wehbe’s Brilliant “Breathing You In”
Haifa Wehbe dropped an English song. Such breaking news! It’s such big news in fact that it reached me all the way in the United States while I purposefully ignored anything and everything Lebanese...
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Hiba Tawaji Didn’t Lose; The Voice Lost Hiba Tawaji
I was walking around New York City yesterday, totally trying to mind my own business by checking Facebook and trying not to feel dwarfed by the high rises around me when my Lebanese friends broke...
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Waves ’98: The Lebanese Short Film Nominated For A Palme D’Or At Cannes 2015
4550 short films from across 100 countries were submitted to the Short Films category at Cannes this year. Only 8 made the selection to be in the running for the Palme D’Or. And a Lebanese short film,...
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How Lebanon Kissed Salma Hayek’s Ass Like No Ass Has Been Kissed Before
Overwhelming refugee crisis? Nope. The fact that it has been over a year that our parliament convened in session to vote for a president? Nope. All other issues worth discussing about the country?...
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Lebanese Women Are 10th Sexiest Worldwide
I stumbled on an article published in The Independent today talking about an American survey to pinpoint the world’s sexiest nationalities among both men and women. To that effect, 60,000 women were...
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Lebanese Ely Dagher’s Waves ’98 Wins Best Short Movie Award At Cannes 2015
About four weeks ago, I wrote about a very promising short movie by Lebanese director Ely Dagher which was nominated for Best Short Movie at this year’s Cannes Festival (link). The short film is an...
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Beirut’s Skybar Burns Down; Lebanon To Announce A Day Of Mourning
*Clears throat.* I know I’ve never, ever, written about a Beirut club before. For starters, I’ve never been to any of them and to a lesser extent, I’m not a party person. So I guess it seems fitting...
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Dear Lebanon, There’s No Such Thing As A “Guillain-Barre” Virus
When you think the Lebanese press circle couldn’t sink lower, they surprise you. Be it with their super horrible reporting which happens often, to them jumping on anything they’d deem as a scoop to...
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The Ella Tannous Case: When Every Lebanese Suddenly Becomes A Doctor
I just wasted 7 years of my life in medical school. Naturally, when you live in the country with the likes of professor Marcel Ghanem, Dr. Joe Maalouf, Tony Khalifeh and their friends, is there a...
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When Adel Karam Makes Fun Of A 63 Year Old Man Presenting His Brevet Exams
Some people have no shame. One of the biggest pieces of international news yesterday, if you disregard those of war, famine and horrors for a few seconds, was the beautiful story of Ingeborg...
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Lebanese Policeman Physically Assaults a Woman For Stopping at a Red Light &...
The series of horrifying violations to our right as people from those who are in power in this wonderful country continues. We’ve all been driving or in cars and suddenly find ourselves boxed in by a...
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A Love Story From The War-Torn Rooftops of Tripoli To Lebanon
Welcome to Lebanon’s Tripoli, the city most of the country loves to hate. A few months ago, whenever Tripoli was mentioned in casual conversation, it would be surrounded by a spew of sectarian hate...
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Dear MTV Lebanon, Lebanese ARE Racist
There’s plenty that MTV could have covered in their news: A failed 25th attempt at electing a president, more debate and analysis over the Roumieh torture videos, SaudiLeaks cables, etc… The same...
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When Arabs Think The Apocalypse Is Near Because The US Legislated Same-Sex...
I’m so honored and flattered to be living in the most open-minded and widely-accepting region of the world. Not only is everything peachy, wonderful and exceedingly rainbow-y around this place, but...
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Meet Amanda Saab, The Lebanese on US’ Masterchef: Changing Stereotypes &...
Meet the awesome Amanda Saab. A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine was gushing about how excited he was that there was a Lebanese candidate on this season’s Masterchef, which airs on FOX every...
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Being Gay Is Worse Than Being ISIS: 2 Lebanese Men Tortured For 3 Weeks in...
You, as a Lebanese, are as irrelevant as a cockroach. Your rights are the doormat every single person with power steps on to ascend up the scale of political prowess. A couple of weeks ago, two...
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Why Michel Aoun Trying To Silence MTV Is Beyond Unacceptable
Welcome to the land of political diarrhea. A few days ago, Michel Aoun – head of Lebanon’s FPM – called on his supporters to go protest for their Jesus-given Christian rights. Some of those supporters...
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“Brands For Less” Employees in Dekwane Beat Up African Woman & Get Away With It
This story will make your blood boil. NowLebanon broke the story of Nafi, a worker from Abidjan, who was visiting a “Brands for Less” store in Dekwane to buy gym clothes at a cheap price. While at...
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#JusticeForGeorges: When Lebanon Is A Jungle, Not A Country
This is what I do when someone cuts me off on the road. 1) I honk at them as loud as I can, 2) I call them an asshole because that’s what they are, 3) I curse whoever taught them how to drive because,...
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Foreign Journalists, Can You Stop The Cliche & Poorly Researched Articles...
Dear Foreign Journalists, We, as Lebanese people, absolutely adore the pride booster injections that you give us whenever you write about Beirut or our country. In other words, the country gets a...
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