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Najib
Jul 30, 2017 10:11
Nahnoo NGO shared a live video from inside Horsh Beirut yesterday and stated that the Harsh has finally reopened to the public after a 3-month closure. Beirut's largest green space was closed down after its pine trees came under renewed threat from invasive insects but the problem was contained a month ago. The authorities are still treating some trees inside though. It's definitely good news but the real problem is still elsewhere. We need more…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 30, 2017 07:36
"Dunkirk" is labeled as a war film but it's very different from every war film I've seen in the past decade. There's barely any dialogue, no emotions, no flashbacks, no character backstories, no war rooms but somehow Nolan still managed to masterfully communicate the events that unfolded during the Dunkirk battle and produce one of the most intense and realistic war films ever. Add to that the tense and chilling soundtrack produced by Hans Zimmer…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 30, 2017 02:11
Every since I started the blog, I promised myself to stay away from political and religious issues because they only cause arguments & hard feelings and they're impossible-to-win battles. Discussing such sensitive issues only sends out negative vibes, which is why I've been focusing on tackling social issues and critisizing ministers & MPs who are not doing their job properly, regardless of what party they belong to and which God they pray to. If a…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 30, 2017 11:15
I was checking out a recent report on the top 10 countries with the most guns per 100 residents and 4 out of the 10 top countries are in the Middle East but Lebanon is not one of them surprisingly enough. Yemen came third with 54.8 guns per 100 residents, Cyprus 36.4, Saudi Arabia 35 and Iraq 34.2 while Lebanon has an average of 21 guns per 100 residents, which means that 1 in every…
Art
6 years ago
Lebanese graffiti and street artist Yazan Halwani won gold in the “Peinture” (Painting) category at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie which are currently being held in Abidjan. Les Jeux de la Francophonie are held ...
Automotive
6 years ago
I wrote about the new biometric driving licenses a year ago but yesterday was the first time I see one of them, probably because the existing ones need 30 years to expire. Anyway, the new ...
Baladi
6 years ago
A recent paper entitled “Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences” has proven that more “than 90 percent of the genetic ancestry of ...
Lebanon
6 years ago
The Asian-based video-on-demand service iflix has officially launched in Beirut last week and Lebanese users can already sign-up for a 30-day trial. For those of you who are not familiar with the service, Iflix was ...
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