I never thought I’d see the day where US media is busy debating whether Trump attracted more crowds to his inauguration than Obama did in 2009. They are comparing crowds by examining aerial shots, metro ...

Tanoreen, a popular Middle-Eastern restaurant based in Brooklyn and run by Palestinian-American chef Rawia Bishara, was featured in last week’s edition of the Explorers and the highlight of the visit was Rawia’s homemade Knafe, which ...

Donald Trump inauguration sparked a new wave of memes, tweets and jokes on social media and Al Rifai’s take is the best one I’ve seen so far in Lebanon. A friend sent me a copy ...

Armed gunmen kidnapped a 74 year old man called Saad Richa in Chtaura few days ago and they haven’t released him yet. Almost every political and religious party in Lebanon is trying to negotiate with ...

The bike sharing system is spreading across Lebanon. Beirut got its first bike sharing station two days ago and Byblos followed today. Let’s hope that this project will expand outside Beirut to include all of ...

WTF did I just watch? a little chick whose dream is to be a Shawarma? Chicken mothers gossiping about their daughter’s choices in life, which include turning into a nugget or a roasted chicken. An ...

Two years after receiving the largest single donation ($32 million) in its 147-year history donation, the American University of Beirut received this week an even bigger donation presented by the Semaan Foundation. The amount of ...

Back when I started the blog around 7 years ago, I admit I wasn’t the biggest fan of Lebanese wines. Now, even though I might not be a true wine connoisseur, I am an avid ...

We finally have a bike sharing system in Beirut thanks to efforts from Jawad Sbeity in collaboration with Beirut’s governor Ziad Chebib and Beirut’s municipality. The first sample station was set up yesterday near Le ...

Back when “Take me out” (“Na2ashit”) had just started on LBC, I posted on how I hated the show and that it’s stupid and demeaning but that we should keep in mind that these men ...