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When Lebanon Drowns In Garbage… Again
If there’s one quality that can apply to Lebanese society and our form of governance, it’s that we always reactive rather than proactive, which is to say we never face a crisis looming on the horizon...
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How Lebanon Has Officially Hit Rock Bottom
Once upon a time, I used to be one of the people who gathered around and started to enumerate how proud they are to be Lebanese. Slowly but surely, I started to become disenchanted with the country; I...
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Fabian Maamari, Enough With Your Silliness
Behold Fabian Maamari, the Swedish-Lebanese whose Facebook pictures are causing a Lebanese frenzy. 4 days ago, Fabian posted a picture of him between two IDF soldiers with the very – err –...
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Kawalees Beirut: Lebanon’s Funniest Instagram Account
In such times, a laugh is needed every now and then and I hope the content of this post entertains you as much as it entertained me when I saw it. New to the Lebanese internet scene is an Instagram...
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When a Lebanese MP Thinks His Political Leader Is God
The above title is not made up by The Onion and is not, as it sounds, satire. I had just got back home from hospital to find that the news all over is about another Aounist protest. Ironically, the...
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How Lebanon’s Politicians Are Threatened By The #طلعت_ريحتكم Movement
Over the past month, the most energetic and momentum-ful youth movement this country has seen over the past of the past few years was born and they called themselves طلعت ريحتكم or YouStink. That...
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Why You Should Go To The #طلعت_ريحتكم Protest This Saturday
The “YouStink” movement is the most important thing taking place in Lebanon today. It’s a movement of youth who are secular and critical and are trying to get this country to be better for everyone in...
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When We Protested and The Lebanese Government Tried To Kill Us
At 6:00PM on August 22nd, 2015, around 10,000 Lebanese people gathered in Downtown Beirut to protest the country’s overwhelming garbage crisis and with it the corrupt political system that has allowed...
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Beirut’s Newest Tourist Attraction: A Wall of Shame To “Protect” Our Politicians
Picture via @SalmanOnline. When you think Lebanon’s politicians couldn’t sink lower, they utterly and irrevocably surprise you. Two days ago, when we peacefully protested to defend our right to have a...
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North Lebanon Will NOT Be Turned Into Beirut’s Garbage Dump
In a stroke of pure “magic,” our politicians have “solved” the country’s garbage crisis. In the beginning there was Sukleen and the Nehmeh dump. Now, we have Sukleen again – yes, seriously – and the...
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In Case You’re Hesitant About Going Down To Martyrs’ Square Tomorrow
What promises to be Lebanon’s biggest secular and non-partisan protest is set to take place tomorrow in Downtown Beirut at 6:00PM under the slogan: YouStink, addressing all of Lebanon’s ruling class....
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When Beirut Was At Its Most Beautiful In Years
Beirut is its most beautiful when it’s alive. Over the past few years, it hasn’t been that way. No, parties at Skybar (RIP) don’t count. Beirut is not beautiful when it’s a strange land to its people....
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When The FPM Is In Full Blown Despair: Assaad Thebian Did Nothing Wrong
If you had any doubt that the FPM is a politically bankrupt party, now’s the time to be certain of it. If you had any doubt that their website, Tayyar.org, was worse than the garbage filling our...
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To Aylan Kurdi & Syria’s Children, I Am Sorry
The most heartwarming story of recent days was when Abdul-Halim Attar had his entire future changed because of one picture. He was carrying his sleeping daughter on his back across the streets of...
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How Rain Will Make Lebanon’s Garbage Crisis Much, Much Worse
The political aspect of Lebanon’s Garbage Crisis has been discussed extensively. The protests around the issue and their underwritten goals have also been discussed extensively. What hasn’t been...
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Let’s Help 30 Lebanese Children & Victims Of Abuse Get An Education!
In a study done by Kafa, in association with the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, this is the situation of Lebanese children in Lebanon: 885,000 children are victims of abuse, Of those children,...
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Michelle Tueini, Your Father Would Be Ashamed
The sad circle of life dictates that we are all going to end up inheriting something one day. Most of us inherit a piece of land, or a house, and maybe just a business. Others, like Michelle Tueni and...
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Blocking Downtown Beirut From The People Is Unacceptable; This Is The True...
The Lebanese Government has no idea what it’s doing. If you thought it had an inkling before, be certain now that it’s essentially an establishment that only functions on reflexes; their latest reflex...
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US Presidential Nominee Jeb Bush on Lebanon: “If You’re A Christian, You’ll...
The joy of Republican primaries unfolds as their latest took place yesterday, right on their safe haven Fox, in yet another scene of Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, his friends making fools out...
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Adel Termos: The Lebanese Hero Of the Borj el Barajneh Terrorist Attacks
45. The number means utterly nothing, and I’m sad to say that even after today this number will still mean nothing. We’re a country that never learned and will never learn. It’s just a bomb. It will...
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