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Najib
Nov 27, 2021 02:31
Aerial shots showing the massive new US embassy campus in Awkar have been circulating online in the past week. The new US Embassy in Lebanon will remain in Awkar and will be built over an area of 174,000 square meters at a cost of around $1 billion. They practically bought the whole mountain on top of the existing embassy and construction should be done by 2023. The embassy was designed by Morphosis Architects and Alabama-based…
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Najib
Nov 26, 2021 03:41
Forget the decades of corruption, the third highest public debt-to-gross domestic product, the state-sponsored Ponzi scheme, the real cause behind the Lira collapse, aside from the notorious yet invisible US blockade of course, is Google & Facebook. No this is not a joke. the BDL issued a statement to Annahar today where they mentioned they're holding Google & Facebook responsible for allowing currency apps to publish their own currency rates and not adopting the "official"…
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Najib
Nov 24, 2021 07:38
An Achrafieh apartment, designed Lebanese designer Marc Dibeh, has won the Best Interior Design trophy at the AD Design Awards 2021. The apartment was rebuilt after the Beirut Blast, and "serves as a metaphor for the creative resilience of the Lebanese capital". “For this project,” explains Dibeh, “I was inspired by Lina Bo Bardi’s 1950 House of Glass in Sao Paulo, and by Pedro Reyes’ home in Mexico City.” Yet the two-storey apartment he designed…
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Najib
Nov 24, 2021 07:12
UNICEF released a survey recently highlighting the dramatic deterioration of living conditions in the past months and the impact this ongoing crisis is having on children. The survey mentions that nearly 8 in 10 Lebanese live in poverty and 36 per cent in extreme poverty, knowing that the UN had estimated recently that 78 percent of the Lebanese lives below the poverty line – some three million people – with 36 percent of the population…
Elections2022
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Elections2022
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