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Lebanese MP Elie Marouni Blames Lebanese Women For Getting Raped
She was asking for it is the excuse of every sexual predator out there to justify his insatiable thirst in violating the body of a woman who was not asking for it. She was wearing a skirt too tight or...
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Seven Sisters Beirut Bans Veiled Woman From Entering Because International...
Pic via Daily Star. It’s perfectly legal for any private institution in the country to pick the clientele it wants to admit, that’s a given. But that doesn’t mean that some practices should go by...
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#AnaTarablos: The Triumphant Video That’ll Make You Love Tripoli
If there’s anything that this blog has gotten people to think about me, it’s that I’m one of the staunchest advocates for Tripoli, one of my favorite Lebanese cities, and the capital of my mouhafazat....
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When Gebran Bassil’s Goons Don’t Understand Freedom of Speech
Breaking news: Gebran Bassil turned out to be yet another racist Lebanese politician. I have no idea how this piece of news was in any way a surprise, but over the past few days it’s almost the only...
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“Ana Mesh Fenneneh”– The Hilarious Song About The Current State of Lebanon’s...
From Roula Yammout to Rima Dib to Miriam Klink, the current state of Lebanon’s music scene is horrific. We make fun of what is available, hoping that our ridicule leads to them ceasing to exist, but it...
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Why Donald Trump Is Probably Part-Lebanese
With each passing day leading up to America voting on November 8th, there’s a growing conviction that gets reinforced in my head, and that is that the Republican bigot and racist nominee cannot but...
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New Apple Based Knefeh & Maamoul: How Tripoli’s Hallab Is Helping Lebanon’s...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, which I have for the past few weeks, you’d know that Lebanon has added yet another crisis to its list, with the latest being that our Apple farmers have no one...
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Your 10-Step Official Guide To Becoming The Next Miss Lebanon
It was so unfortunate that I couldn’t watch the much awaited coronation of this year’s Miss Lebanon yesterday, but I’ve since caught up and I believe I’ve reached the perfect formula for you to win...
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How To Best Handle The Upcoming Michel Aoun Presidency
I’m counting my blessings about 20,000 times a day that when Lebanon *finally* gets a president I won’t be there to see it. It’s sad in a way, that after two and half years of void I wouldn’t be there...
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How Lebanon’s Parliament Was Worse Than A School Classroom In Voting For a...
Ladies and gentlemen, those are the people that represent us, the ones we voted for, the ones who then stopped us from voting for them again because we all know that’s what will happen anyway as you...
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Racist & Disgusting OTV Humiliates Syrian Man Just To Be “Funny”
We complain about Americans voting for Trump and how that reflects on many of them looking down at minorities (it doesn’t). And somehow, we, as Lebanese, are totally oblivious to how inherently racist...
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Article 522 Allowing Lebanese Men To Rape Women Then Marry Them To Be Abolished
One of the many backwards thing in the Lebanese legal system is article 522, which allows a rapist to marry his victim (or at least propose marriage) which would clear him of any wrong-doing. Add it...
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Dear Lebanon, Your Dignity Has More To Worry About Than a Facebook Status
A few days ago, a Lebanese journalist named Bassel Al Amin wrote a Facebook status that saw him thrown in jail. You’d never hear of such a sentence in any “civilized” country around the world,...
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Sorry Jbeil, Lebanon’s Best Christmas Tree Is In Tripoli This Year
At a time when Christmas decorations have become yet another opportunity for Lebanese locales to compete among each other, spending tens of thousands (if not more) of dollars for momentary decorations...
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Flügen Rides: Kunhadi Trying To Save The Lives & Mentalities of Lebanese...
The numbers are staggering. In 2015, Lebanon had 4300 car accidents leading to more than 500 casualties, most of which (around 34%) were in the 15 – 29 age bracket. Most of those car accidents were...
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13 Lebanese That Made It Big In 2016
As 2016 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 Netanyahu, Israel Isn’t The Only Middle Eastern Place Where Christians Can...
In his increasingly childish bitchfit against the international political establishment that saw his country’s transgressions through settlements on Palestinian land finally made illegal with a UN...
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Malek Maktabi’s Story of Zainab & Her Sri Lankan Mother Deepa Is A Disgrace...
I am angry. Nay, angry is an understatement, I am livid. Anger wasn’t the only thing I felt yesterday. I was also deeply ashamed to be a citizen of a country where the story that Malek Maktabi’s show,...
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The Lebanese Victims of Istanbul’s Terrorist Attacks & Lebanese TV Stations’...
I debated whether to write about this issue or not for the better part of the last few hours, but the response by Lebanese media to the Istanbul attacks, especially with regards to the Lebanese who...
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Why Those Who Insult Istanbul’s Victims Should Always Be Challenged, Not Ignored
I never thought that we, as a country first and foremost and as a region in the grander scheme of things, would so grossly disagree about our characterization of the victims of the Istanbul attacks....
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