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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...