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Lebanon’s Government Is Using Syrian Refugees and Fear To Kill Democracy and...
Tensions in Lebanon are at an all-time high as political rhetoric against the refugees seems to have found its way to a union the like of which we haven’t seen before, bolstered by public support...
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Lebanon Appoints Dr. Amal Mudallali As First Woman UN Ambassador
To break away from the horrific news of how some fascist and racist Lebanese want to beat up Syrian refugees, enforce taxes on them for breathing, force them into slavery, among other things, one...
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Beirut To Break The Record For World’s Longest Continuing Party At 56 Hours
At a time when the biggest plates of hummus and biggest lemonade reserves aren’t enough, Beirut seems set to do what Beirut does best, and that’s throw the biggest party out there – literally this...
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In Battle Against ISIS, Lebanon’s Army Pays Tribute To Spain’s Terrorist...
As Lebanon’s Army General Joseph Aoun tweeted the commencement of operation “Fajr el Jouroud,” which translates to “the dawn of the mountains,” Lebanon’s Army has started its full blown assault at the...
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Lebanon, The Only Country With A St. Charbel, Celebrates Having The Biggest...
A 26 meter St. Charbel statue made its journey from Jounieh to Faraya. If that’s not enough of a Keserwan dose for one day for anyone, I don’t know what is. The problem is it doesn’t stop there. The...
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“West Beirut” and “The Insult” Director Ziad Doueiri Arrested in Beirut...
Pity the nation that insults its people as other nations honor them. Ziad Doueiri is probably the most essential contemporary Lebanese cinematic director. His movie “West Beirut” is probably the most...
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Hollywood’s Upcoming Movie “Beirut” Checks Off Every American Stereotype...
The trailer for Jon Hamm’s latest movie, titled Beirut, and produced by Bleeker Street, was released yesterday. The movie, set in 1982, tells the story of an American officer who finds himself back in...
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Lebanon Bans Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” Because Of His Support of Israel,...
At the rate Lebanon’s censorship bureau has been going for the past year, the country might as well have rang in 1918 instead of 2018, because the situation has become unacceptable. The latest victim...
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“The Insult” Is Nominated For Best Foreign Film Oscar, First Time Ever For A...
Ziad Doueiry’s latest movie, “The Insult,” was just announced as one of the five nominees in the Best Foreign Film category for the 2018 Oscars. This marks the first time ever that a Lebanese movie...
View ArticleLebanon’s Government Wants To Silence Hisham Haddad For Making A Joke About...
In your daily dose of the increasing censorship being enforced by an unchecked government in this country, comedian Hisham Haddad is now on their chopping block as the Lebanese government is filing a...
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A Record 111 Women Are Running For Parliament in Lebanon’s 2018 Elections
As Lebanon’s 2018 elections go on in full swing, a total of 976 candidates have presented to the Ministry of Interior affairs as of the deadline at midnight on March 6th. Of those, 111 candidates are...
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No, Gebran Bassil, Ne7na Meghterbin
Gebran Bassil – our esteemed minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigrants – wants to change the name of the ministry he is heading from that dealing with Immigrant affairs, to – what I would assume...
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Nadine Labaki’s New Movie “Capharnaüm” Is Part Of The 2018 Cannes Festival...
After Georges Nasser’s films “Ila Ayn” 1957, “Le Petit Étranger” 1962, and Maroun Baghdadi’s “Hors La Vie” 1991, Nadine Labaki’s latest “Capharnaüm” is chosen to be in the official competition at the...
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From America, I’ll Be Voting For Kollouna Watani… And So Should You
In around a month, I’d have been what Gebran Bassil would like to call a “mountasher” for exactly one year. In a few days, this very same mountasher will be driving around 70 miles north of...
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Kollouna Watani’s Joumana Haddad & Paula Yacoubian Are Now Parliament Members
Update: Somehow, since the writing of this post Joumana Haddad ended up losing. No comment. On a more than depressing electoral day, a glimmer of hope that started two years ago with Beirut Madinati in...
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Nadine Labaki’s “Capharnaüm” Wins The Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Festival
What an accomplishment. Nadine Labaki just became the first Lebanese director to win such a top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s the festival’s second highest prize. The top prize went to Spike...
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Hezbollah’s Culture of Death Attacks Nadine Labaki’s Triumph at Cannes
You would think that a Lebanese director becoming the first Lebanese and Arab female director to win big at Cannes would be a cause for celebration. You would think that Nadine Labaki’s important win...
View ArticleIn the 3ahd of Business Deals: Money Can Get You A Lebanese Citizenship, But...
Can you hear that? The sound of every supporter to the current ruling Party in the country scrambling to find every excuse under the sun to justify the latest naturalization law that was passed by...
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From Mashrou3 Leila To Our Freedoms: Religious Censorship in Lebanon Is...
Picture this, a song released over 3 years ago is suddenly noticed by the collective praying masses, and crucifixes are drawn. Picture this, a meme posted on a Facebook page lands you in court. It’s...
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Lebanon Slipping To The Dark Ages: Charbel Khalil Wants To Start a Gay...
With each passing day, news transpiring out of Lebanon get more and more disheartening as the latest seems to be a wannabe “comedian” deciding it’s time for him to start a “conversion therapy group”...
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