“Liban, un carrefour” is the name of the article that the Belgian Newspaper Missi chose for Lebanon. The article dates back from 1966 and was retrieved by Maroun Salhani from NowLebanon.

Nahr el Kalb is shown in the picture above and there are four more pictures that you can see [Here].

To read the whole article, check [Here].

PS: Carrefour is the french word for meeting point or crossroad.

As I previously posted, Richard Quest was in Lebanon filming for CNN and they just released the piece which you can watch above or at their website [Here]

Thanks Karim

Join Tawlet to celebrate the beauty of Lebanese cuisine through an illustrated poster exhibition by Maya Zankoul around the theme, at one of the most authentic Lebanese restaurants: Tawlet Souk el Tayeb. [Link]

The exhibition will be held at Tawlet Souk el Tayeb in Corniche El Nahr, Mar Mikhael – Beirut. For further information, you can call +9611448129.

Good luck to our talented friend Maya and I will be doing my best to attend the exhibition.

For those of you who haven’t seen Maya’s work yet, you can check out her blog [Here] and the Zankoulizer [Here]

That’s what our minister of telecommunications promised yesterday. Lower prices and a much faster internet. Let’s hope for the best.

Here’s how the above highlighted section of the new Nahr El-Mot interchange should have been built and below is how it turned out.

From where I took this picture, there are 6 legitimate lanes all going into a one lane road before reaching the highway. You can get stuck there for hours if the highway is closed, it’s a freakin’ nightmare!

[High Res]

PS: Let us not forget the road bridge in the middle of the highway, probably the one and only in the world. [Link]

I thought at first those were Lebanese girls, but it turns out they are Whisky Mist’s Girlroc dancers. Looking at the pictures, they were the only ones actually partying.

I haven’t been to Whisky Mist yet even though Chahe’s been telling me it’s a great place. It is located at Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotel in Beirut. You can check out more about it [Here].

1964: Electricte du Liban was founded. Its aim was to provide electricity to all Lebanese regions.

1975-1990: Civil war, no electricity for days, sometimes weeks. Power cuts all the time.

Since 1990, it has been progressing in the following way:
- Ma fi Kahraba. Bassita kelloun 6 hours bil nhar!
- Yel3an ekht el Kahraba. 12 hours bil nhar mich ma7moule. Sar Badda Moteur.
- Hay dawoule hay! El Kahraba toul mela la wara. Sar meklef el moteur, khaleena na3mil ichtirak arkhass.
- Ma32oul nedfa3 150$ lal moteur kel chaher? mich 7ale hay bass chou badna na3mil.
- Yel3an ekht el moteur. 4 hours 2at3a bil nhar. Mich ma32oul. 3a chou 3am nedfa3lo?

All in all, owners of generators are the new EDL now and are charging us whatever they want and cutting down the electricity anytime they want. Added to that, you can’t argue with the generator dude because he can easily tell u to f*** off.

Wel balad machi wala yihemmak.

Remember how I posted about Dexter’s boat being spotted at La Marina Dbayyeh few days ago?

Well I went there with Chahe to check it on Sunday morning but we had no clue how to get in Marina so we thought we improvise and tell them we are going in for a coffee.

Security opened the gate once we got near and we told them we’re going to the restaurant to have a coffee, but they refused to let us in saying we need to be members, and asked us to turn and leave. I got almost inside the Marina and found a spot to turn and leave but thought I take a tour at first and check out the boats. We stayed inside for half an hour and then left without anyone telling us anything and the security at the entrance did not even remember us.

PS: Dexter’s boat was no longer there, seems like he did his thing and left.

Seems like serving burger lovers at Classic Burger Joint Jal el Dib is also part of the events they cover. Of course they allow themselves to put cones all over the street even though there’s a park meter sign. Valet authority supersedes Park Meters.

You can check out their website [Here] even though there’s no use cause it’s under construction and probably gonna stay that way but they need cause they’re international.

That’s the second find in two weeks that brings me some 10 years back. I don’t recall the last time I had a penguin but I remember they were great.

Spotted at the Dora branch. They started removing the signs.
The bank was blacklisted by the US a couple of months ago for allegedly taking part in a money laundering scheme, then sold to Societe Generale.

Thanks Karim for the pic!

That’s the first time I hear about this, but apparently it’s a common practice in some Lebanese restaurants and houses to put water bags to keep flies away from their food.

I made a quick search and surprisingly it’s a common practice everywhere in the world. Opinions however are split on whether this really works or not. [Link]

As far as I am concerned, there were no flies to be seen in Al Erzel in Faraya where I was on Saturday, but it could be because of the weather.