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Najib
Jul 23, 2018 07:26
An online video shared by a page called "I love Lebanon" went viral last week showing a heavily polluted beach in the Ouzai area. I was reluctant to share it at first and I'm glad I didn't because it turned out to be fake. Instead, it was shot somewhere on the coast of the Dominican Republic, no where near Ouzai. Of course, this doesn't mean that we don't have a beach crisis and despite all…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 22, 2018 07:31
The iPhone Photography Awards , a world wide competition aimed at recognizing photographers for their iPhone skills since 2008, revealed the 2018 list of winning photographers and photographs which included Lebanese Soha Ghandour. Soha is a self-taught photographer who was selected as a finalist of the Byblos Bank Photography Award back in 2016, after which she decided to become a full-time photographer. Ghandour's picture of Tyre was shot with an iPhone 5 and was awarded…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 20, 2018 05:59
The law stating that private sector companies must employ at least one person with special needs was enacted 18 years ago, but it hasn't been enforced until now or at least that's what the Minister of Labor is promising. According to , the Ministry of Labor, in cooperation with the The National Employment Office and the Ministry of Social Affairs are preparing lists of people with special needs and their qualifications. The law states that…
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Najib
Jul 19, 2018 02:56
Despite efforts to enforce a new hunting law and force hunters to get new licenses, hunting crimes are still numerous in Lebanon and overhunting is undermining efforts of local NGOs. To make things worse, the Higher Council of Wild Hunting has recently recommended a 2-month extension to the hunting season, a request that has been denied by Lebanon's Environment Minister but no official statement was released rejecting it. Instead, the minister "said he was willing…
Critiques
5 years ago
When the trailer for “Beirut” came out, almost everyone wanted that movie banned and I remember a certain ministry wanting to file a lawsuit against it. There was even a hashtag to boycott it and ...
Baladi
5 years ago
Jacqueline Makari lost her son to illness and decided to open a restaurant and recruit only employees with mental health problems, to make Ozzy the first of its kind in Lebanon and send out an ...
Economics
5 years ago
A deteriorating economy, alarming unemployment rates, a crumbling infrastructure, an ever increasing corruption rate and on top of all that increasing consumer prices. In this recent BLOM report, all components of the Consumer price index ...
Hotels
5 years ago
Four years ago, I read that Beirut’s bullet-scarred Holiday Inn hotel was set to be auctioned in the coming months yet the hotel hasn’t found any buyers yet according to this recent article by LeCommerceduLevant. ...
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