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Lebanese Women Don’t Need A List Of Reasons To Be Considered “Dateable”

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  On International Women’s Day, a local website called the961.com decided to publish a list of 7 reasons why you should date...

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Lebanon’s Government Is Adding 22 Taxes To Fund The National Budget,...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Lebanon hasn’t had a national budget since 2005. That is our country has been run totally à la laisser faire for the past 12...

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Lebanese Government Launches Program Allowing Anyone With Lebanese Heritage...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Over the past few days, and in their attempt to reconnect the massive diaspora which has any relation to Lebanon back to their...

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Lebanese Politicians Don’t Care About Increasing Taxes:  They Know We’re...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  VAT is now 11%. Our parliament is blazing through approving the 22 new taxes and increases that I wrote about a few days ago....

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John Saad: The Lebanese Filth Whose Favorite Hobby Is To Kick Helpless Cats...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  A few days ago, a video surfaced online of a man luring a poor kitten with some food before he proceeded to kick her across a...

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The Very Scandalous Things On Our Middle Eastern Laptops and Tablets: A List...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).    The American and British governments have decided overnight to not allow passengers boarding airlines flying directly to their...

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Minister Of Culture Allows Demolition of Beirut’s Iconic “The Red House”&...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Almost a year ago, the story of Beirut’s “Red House,” near Bliss in Hamra, was spreading like wild-fire. Most of us had taken the...

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AUB’s “Insight Club” Promotes Homophobia, Wants An Islamic Curriculum & Warns...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Earlier this week, AUB’s Islamist club which called itself “Insight”, but it ironically lacks any, was supposed to hold an event...

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No, Michel Aoun Falling Is Not Funny, Nor Is It Material To Humor Us

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Michel Aoun tripped and fell. It’s the Arab League Summit – however useless that might be. Lebanon is participating with a...

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Tomorrowland Is Coming To Lebanon On July 29th

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).    Tomorrowland is one of the biggest electronic music festivals in the world. Held yearly in Belgium, it’s attended by hundreds...

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April Fools’ Lebanon Style: We Were Promised Better Internet, We Got No...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  If you’ve ever wondered how a whole country can be without continuous internet for hours on end, including any form of mobile...

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Beirut Will Have Super Fast Internet On April 9th, 11th and 13th; Other...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Let me start by saying this: Imad Kreidieh is the example of a Lebanese official that we need more of in every form of...

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Lebanese Civil Society Triumphs: Naqabati Beats All Political Parties...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Tonight, we celebrate. It may not be the national victory we hope to see come parliamentary elections (if they allow us to vote)...

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When Some Arabs View Christian Victims As Nothing But “Kuffar:” Thoughts With...

Yes, the majority of victims of wars in the Middle East are Muslims. That is not a matter of debate. But the people who have been dealt the worst hand in the ongoing conflicts in this God-forsaken...

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A Lebanese Healthcare Milestone: Mental Health Is Now Covered By The Ministry...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  One of the major problems that psychiatry patients in Lebanon face is having their mental health disorders not recognized by any...

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When Lebanon Remembers #آخر_مرة_صارت_الانتخابات

In case you’re living under a rock, Lebanon’s parliament will renew its mandate for the third consecutive time tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War. Of course, this doesn’t come as a...

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Lebanese Jean-François Jalkh Is Now The Head Of Le Pen’s Far-Right French...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  AFP PHOTO / JACQUES DEMARTHON. Mabrouk Lebnen! We keep exporting the best of the best, don’t we? After her expected ascension to...

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Looking For The Lebanons In USA, And The Stories They Hold: Fadi BouKaram’s...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  Less than 7 months ago, Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram decided to embark on the journey of visiting the cities and towns...

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500 Roman Columns In Beirut Have Been Thrown Away By The Sea Next To Biel,...

Make sure you download this blog’s iOS app to stay up to date! (Link).  The saga of the sure and constant destruction of any historical remnants of Beirut continue. The city, which is constantly listed...

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Lebanese Ministry of Culture Is Transferring The Roman Columns That Were...

  Around 2 days after I wrote a very widely circulated post about the matter, which referenced a L’Orient Le Jour article on the issue, Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture decided to take notice of the 500...

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