Victims, Not Threats: The Massacred In Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Yemen...
Meet Adel Al-Jaf. He also calls himself Adel Euro, so you might know him by that. He was a rapper, a dancer and a man who tried to do the best that he could with what he had in his country. Last year,...
View ArticleThose Bomb Detectors Still Used In Lebanese Malls Didn’t Save 280 People In Iraq
Security at Lebanese malls is like the ups and downs of alternative electrical currents. Whenever the situation in the country or around us becomes worse, if that’s even possible, you see them create...
View ArticleLebanon Panics As It Faces Wave of Pokémon Refugees
With the advent of “Pokemon Go,” Google and Nintendo’s latest advent into the mobile gaming industry, Lebanese were dumbfounded to find their home country becoming, overnight, a playground for...
View ArticleThree Men Raped A 16 Year Old Girl From Tripoli… But They Won’t Go To Jail
Welcome to the land of where the value of women is contingent upon the flap of skin resting at the precipice of their vagina, where their rights are fluctuating based on the mood of the men that enable...
View ArticleLet’s Help 56 Year Old Rozine Moughalian Get The Liver Transplant That Would...
Rozine Moughalian is a 56 year old mother of two from Bourj Hammoud and if she doesn’t get a liver transplant within a month, Rozine will be no more. This is as simple as that statement could be...
View ArticleAdeela & Why The Fans Of Nancy Ajram, Elissa, Other Divas Need To Be Less...
Picture this, a sarcastic joke making fun of a Lebanese pop star ends up threatening one of the biggest and funniest pages to grace Lebanese and Arab Facebook. Over the past few months, and in...
View ArticleHaifa Wehbe’s Sister Does Porn Disguised As “Music”
That awkward moment when the bar is being set so low for “music” in the Middle East that the singers we used to think were talentless begin to appear as producing valid art. More than a decade ago,...
View ArticleLebanon Successfully Turns Army Day Into A Mortifying Freakshow
I get it if it’s Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day, Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day or any other day that has become, over the years, synonymous with commercialism and ways for advertisers all around...
View ArticleMeet Jess Rizkallah: The Lebanese-American Whose Poem On Being Torn Between...
I’ve been into slam poetry for more than two years now and Button Poetry is one of my favorite YouTube channels. I love it so much that it’s the only YouTube channel for which I’ve enabled...
View ArticleLebanon At 2016 Rio Olympics: Our Athletes, The Possibility of a Gold Medal &...
Rio’s 2016 Olympics had their big opening yesterday, or as the joke goes it was similar to an average Lebanese wedding. Critics are hailing Brazil’s celebration of its history without shying away from...
View ArticleHypocrite Israel: Being On The Same Olympic Bus As Lebanon Was Not a Coincidence
Everyone and their mother is talking about how the Lebanese delegation stopped the Israeli one from going on the same bus to the Olympic opening ceremony a few days ago. Naturally, Westerners and many...
View ArticleAmerican Xenophobic Racist Murders Lebanese Man Because He’s “Filthy Lebanese...
Dear American media, I’ve fixed the news title for you. I mean, why not call things the way they are, instead of beating around the bush of trying to lighten the news in proportionality to the skin...
View ArticleFor Omran
I see you sitting there, at an age where your biggest woe should be whether your little toy car would beat your friend’s in an artificial race, your tiny legs barely extending beyond the ambulance...
View ArticleWhen a Berri “Journalist” Covers an Anti-Berri Protest
Throughout our careers, whether advanced or just at their beginning, we are all exposed to scenarios which challenge everything that we know. How we deal with such scenarios defines whether we can...
View ArticleTo Burkini Or Not To Burkini: The Ages Of Men Deciding What Women Should Wear
When it comes to cultural assimilation, many parts of Europe have not been exemplary in the way they’ve dealt with the many minorities that have sought their land as refuge over the years, but none...
View ArticleFrom Bikini To Burkini, Or Why Lebanon’s Tripoli Is Awesome
A picture of two veiled burkini-clad women, and another bikini-wearing on one of Tripoli’s popular beach islands is going viral today across Lebanon’s internet-sphere. The last time this many people...
View ArticleThe Day I Disappeared: Remembering The Lebanese Who Have Been Missing For...
Photo via ICRC. Yesterday, August 29th 2016, I disappeared for a day. It was part of a campaign by the International Committee of the Red Cross that I felt compelled to be part of, almost no questions...
View ArticleMental Health: The Silenced Killer of Lebanese Youth –إلى نورهان المشاكسة
Nourhan Hammoud was Lebanese girl in her twenties, from the South, full of life, her friends had never known her to be fragile, non-smiling or weak. She dreamt of the days when she would leave this...
View ArticleSave Kfarabida: Lebanese Government Wants To Turn Batroun’s Best Beaches Into...
The place that welcomes you North, once you cross the Madfoun, is an idyllic coastal town in Batroun called Kfaraabida. It has around 1000 voters, a small municipal board, and a resourceful mayor that...
View ArticleLebanese MP Hadi Hobeish Destroys A Forest In Akkar To Build His Villa
The saga of every single Lebanese official being above the law they’re supposed to safeguard continues. This time, the culprit is the prized son of Qobayet Hadi Hobeish, an MP with the Future Movement,...
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