Lebanon
2 years ago
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 ...
Lebanon
2 years ago
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 ...
Lebanon
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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 ...
Humor
2 years ago
Our Education Minister has unveiled a dangerous conspiracy aimed at promoting homosexuality to Lebanese children through the “Snakes & Ladders” Game. The game which is presented within the “Kitabi – My Book”, a project funded ...
Lebanon
2 years ago
Lebanon’s former Central Bank governor left his office with a Zaffé and is nowhere to be found ever since. He’s supposedly still in the country given the travel bans imposed on him and international arrest ...
Critiques
2 years ago
Back in 2014, a judge bravely dismissed a case against a transgender woman on the basis that article 534, which prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”, cannot be used against homosexuals. This ...
Critiques
2 years ago
Media people invited to cover the Amr Diab Concert apparently had to a sign a memo forbidding them from sharing any negative comments on the event, on Amr Diab, Rodge and the organizers. The memo ...