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From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn’t Care About Arab Lives
When a friend told me past midnight to check the news about Paris, I had no idea that I would be looking at a map of a city I love, delineating locations undergoing terrorist attacks simultaneously. I...
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Mashrou’ Leila’s Ibn El Leil; Ab: Beit Byout; Film Ktir Kbeer: When Lebanese...
Amidst the very dismal situation in the country, of which I’ve written and nagged your head about plenty, there are currently three emblems of Lebanese art shining bright of which I think we should all...
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Stop Blaming & Shaming Lebanese Army Freed Hostages For Thanking Their...
A few days ago, after more than a year and a half of stagnation, a major breakthrough in the case of Lebanon’s hostages with “Al Nusra” came through, culminating in their release in what can only be...
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Lebanon’s Cheesecake Factory Was Very Bad
My attempts at trying the Cheesecake Factory go back to when I was in the U.S. a few months ago and couldn’t manage to find a table back then. I stood around, watching as servers shuffled around...
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Dear Donald Trump, Meet My Very Scary Muslim Friends
Donald Trump does not want Muslims to enter America, at least until he can be sure what those Muslims are planning. You know, all 1.5 billion plus of those Muslims. Yes, all of them must be in on that...
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13 Lebanese That Made It Big In 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, and you are overwhelmed by end-of-year lists, the only list that I wanted to make, as I also did last year, was one commemorating Lebanese faces that I believe did something...
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No, Lebanon Has Not Legalized Captagon To Get The Saudi Prince Off The Hook… Yet
For the past two days, Lebanon’s internet has been abuzz with news that a Lebanese court has set a precedence to consider Captagon’s trade as a crime within the spectrum of pharmacy laws and not within...
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Attempting To Bring Affordable Medicine To Every Lebanese And Refugee in Lebanon
As I’m starting my career in medicine in Lebanon, I noticed that the biggest hurdle facing patients is accessibility. This can take many forms. For the few that I serve at the tertiary center where I...
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Everything You Need To Know About The “New” Lebanese Passport Rules
4 days prior to a deadline that was suddenly imposed on every single Lebanese, it turns out that the passports we paid hundreds of thousands of Lebanese liras to renew recently are turning obsolete....
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To The Lebanese & Arabs Mocking The Siege On Madaya And Its Starving People
Huddled in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, Madaya is a Syrian village housing tens of thousands of innocent people who are being starved to death at the hand of a siege enforced by the Lebanese allies of...
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Ziad El Rahbani’s “Bennesbeh La Bokra Chou?” Was Beautiful; “Film Ameriki...
Let me start out by saying that I am a Ziad el Rahbani uninitiated. The tag-line for “Bennesbeh La Boukra Chou?” went: “you’ve been listening to it for 35 years, now come and watch it.” Well, I...
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Lebanon Pioneers In The Middle East: Allows Trans People To Legally Change...
In the grand scheme of things, today was quite a bad day for Lebanese law. Letting a confessed terrorist go out on bail is not only a mark of shame for the entire country, but for any legal system that...
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The Stunning History Behind Ras Beirut’s Endangered “Red House”
Nestled in the heart of Hamra, on Abdel Aziz street leading to Bliss Street, is a house most of us passed by without noticing until very recently. Its red window tiles always caught my eye in the days...
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Geagea and Aoun’s New Love Fest: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
In a widely predicted move, LF leader Samir Geagea and FPM leader Michel Aoun came out with a political understanding yesterday that saw the former supporting the latter for Lebanon’s presidency,...
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Lebanon’s Government Is Destroying A Phoenician Beach In Adloun To Build A Port
About 15 minutes south of Saida is a small coastal Lebanese town in the South called Adloun. Most of us hadn’t heard of it before, but it’s actually one of the longest inhabited areas in our country...
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Dear People of Facebook, Your “Be Like Bill” Stick Figure Memes Are Annoying,...
2015 was the year of Bitstrips. 2016 is the year of Facebook stickfigures. Modern art is so minimalistic. I wish we can have bitsrips back. At least those were visually appealing. I have no idea who...
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Marc Hatem: Another Lebanese Singer To Be On France’s The Voice In 2016
The string of talents we’re exporting to France’s The Voice continues this year in the form of Marc Hatem. I have no idea how long Lebanese are going to go on France’s The Voice, especially when the...
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Lebanese Marwan Youssef Wins Star Academy; Arabs Have A Meltdown About It
As blogger Anis Tabet wisely put it, “the year is 2050, and Star Academy is still on TV.” Yes, it’s become increasingly redundant and unwatchable as it faces competition from more “appealing” shows as...
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#ThisIsLebanon: Showing The Beauty Of The Country We Come From & Trying To...
Lebanon is a gorgeous country. It takes an effort – at least for me – to try and see that in absolute value sometimes, but I can’t deny that there are instances where I can’t but marvel at the beauty...
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This Is North Lebanon That Our Governments Don’t Give A Shit About
A couple days ago, MTV Lebanon posted a controversial Christian-arousing report about how Lebanon’s Christian areas do not get funds for public works that its Muslim areas get, especially its Shiite...
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