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Najib
Sep 12, 2023 04:37
After being targeted for promoting LGBT rights through rainbow cakes by a bunch of bigoted ignorants, Pain D'or released a rather disappointing statement and has recently decided to replace its rainbow cakes with sunset cakes. In the meantime, our so-called Culture Minister is still ridiculing himself in a series of endless tweets and some educational establishments are starting to make measures to "fight" LGBTQ rights, such as banning Mickey Mouse & Sponge Bob 😂
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Najib
Sep 09, 2023 04:16
Riad Salameh is gone and so is his shady exchange platform "Sayrafa". Instead, the Council of Ministers has agreed to adopt a new Bloomberg-operated platform for dollar trading, which is expected to reflect the actual and free exchange rate, limit the cash economy and replace the numerous parallel market exchange rates. This is in theory of course, but the truth is that while this platform may provide more transparency, the absence of reforms and the…
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Najib
Sep 04, 2023 05:20
Imagine being the country's fastest female sprinter and one of its most celebrated athletes, and being interrogated at the airport by a security officer and questioned over the validity of your Lebanese passport. That's what happened to Aziza Sbaity in 2018 on her way back to Beirut from the 2018 Arab Championship. In an interview with Daraj, Aziza who is Lebanon's only black female athlete, describes her encounter with the female security officer at Beirut's…
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Najib
Sep 03, 2023 04:08
According to a study by Information International, a Beirut-based independent regional research & consultancy firm, stray bullet shootings kill 8 people and injure 15 yearly in Lebanon. The numbers are based on data acquired from the security forces between 2013 and 2023. The latest victim of stray bullet shooting was a young girl who was playing in her school's playground. Naya Hanna was hit in the head and succumbed to her wounds after 23 days.…
Lebanon
7 months ago
LBC, MTV, Al Jadeed, Annahar, Nidaa Al Watan, L’Orient Lejour, Raseef22, Daraj, the Legal Agenda and other leading newspapers & media outlets in Lebanon issued a powerful joint statement yesterday condemning the “hate speech and ...
Movies & Television
7 months ago
Apple TV released today a series on Carlos Ghosn entitled “Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn”. The four-episode series tells the tale of the Brazilian-French-Lebanese businessman and how he managed to escape from Japan by ...
Beirut
7 months ago
A survey by Beirut Urban Lab exploring the aspects of life in Beirut ruptured by the blast in 2020, has shown that the occupancy rate stood at 54% for eight sub-neighborhood residential clusters located in ...
Critiques
7 months ago
Hundreds of thugs identifying themselves as soldiers of God (“Jnoud El-Rab”) attacked partygoers at a bar, beating them up, threatening the owner and destroying furniture. How did the security forces respond? They stopped them from ...
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