Not gonna happen anytime soon.

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Picture from Click-Sports

Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Army Chief Jean Kahwaji’s son and Champville’s president Jad Kahwaji after Champville clinched their first Lebanese Basketball title:

وعن التسييس الذي أصبح لاعباً أساسيّاً في رياضة كرة السلة، قال قهوجي: “للأسف التسييس جزء أساس من حياتنا اليوميّة، وشاءت الظروف أن يكون هناك وضع خاص، إنّما نحن من جانبنا نعمل على إبعاد السياسة عن هذه اللعبة التي نحب، وهذا يتطلّب من الفرق كلّها العمل مع جمهورها للفصل بين السياسة واللعبة”. [Link]

English translation: Kahwaji said in regards to mixing sports with politics that despite politics being an essential part of our everyday life, they tried hard as a Champville administration to keep politics away from the game and that it requires a lot of efforts specially when dealing with the fans.

It doesn’t look like they tried so hard in the picture above. In fact, I believe it is relatively easy for any Lebanese Basketball team to ask its fans to stay away from political slogans and enjoy the game, but it seems to me they are exploiting politics to attract fans instead of keeping politics away from basketball. Shame.

I can’t get enough of her videos, she’s just too out of it. [YouTube]

وكان يقال عن لبنان سويســرا الشرق، انا اقول: سويسرا هي لبنان الغرب [Link]

English Translation: There’s an old saying that Lebanon is the Switzerland of the Middle East; I say that Switzerland is the Lebanon of the West.

The author of this blasphemous quote is our Interior Minister Marwan Charbel. Don’t get me wrong I am proud of my country Lebanon and its beautiful nature, but comparing it to the Swiss landscapes and sceneries is a complete joke.

in other words, “Badna Ndalna 3al 2ared wou nrou2 bi 2ouwwe!”.

Photo by Mark

It’s definitely not the wind that tore down the huge poster.

By definition, public works mean (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) engineering projects and other constructions, financed and undertaken by a government for the community. [Link]

All of a sudden, I don’t want a new Jal el Dib bridge anymore lol!

Picture via BeirutDriveBy

Michelle Rodriguez will be making a special appearance. Vin Diesel will jump out of a plane into the stadium.

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this ad was FlamingText.com. I remember everyone using it like 10 years ago if not more to come up with cool signatures on hotmail or just banners.

That’s not the kind of response you expect from the person in charge of Beiteddine Festival‘s twitter account. To read more about Beiteddine’s 2012 festival, click [Here].

On another note, it looks like there’s some tension among Lebanese tweeps as even our ex-PM Saad Hariri lashed out at a “hater” yesterday morning (See below).

I didn’t think the comment was wrong as much as it was weak. He could have either ignored or answered in a more intelligent matter like Mustapha suggested.

Here are few (serious & fun) replies I believe he could have tweeted, even though I would have simply ignored.

“Jean, you can simply unfollow me if wishing good morning bothers you. Regards”

“Li fi Msallé ta7et Bato ten3aro. Have a great day”

“Spoken like an orange (lol)”

“Haters gonna hate”

Photo via BeirutSpring

PS: For those of you who wish to follow me and interact with me on Twitter, my account is LeNajib