Animals & Wildlife
Rare Sighting: Brown Bear Spotted in Lebanon’s Mountains After Almost 60 Years
9 years agoI was just finishing this post on the Syrian Brown Bear spotted in Lebanon’s eastern mountain range when I noticed Nadine from Newsroomnomad had posted about it already. I trust Nadine when it comes to ...
Critiques
15 Things That Need to be Changed at The Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport
9 years agoThe Beirut Rafic Hariri was renovated 14 years ago, but it has been neglected ever since and there are plenty of things that need to be drastically changed and/or improved the soonest. To name few: ...
Alcohol
Kfarman Municipality Trying To Use a 100 Year-Old Law To Ban Alcohol
9 years agoWhat is happening in Kfarman (Nabatieh) and several other Lebanese villages in the South mainly is alarming and dangerous. It’s been years now that extremist and some religious groups have been trying to close down ...
Baladi
Stunning Drone Footage Over The Majestic Mount Sannine
9 years agoCheck out this beautiful drone footage taken over the majestic Mount Sannine by Ziad Orfali. There’s also a GOPRO footage skiing down “Al Bahsa” slope. Enjoy! ...
Critiques
Riyadi (Sporting Club) Sanctioned Over Anti-Homenetmen Chants
9 years agoThe Lebanese Basketball Federation fined Riyadi and banned their fans from attending the next game after Turkish flags were raised and disrespectful slogans were chanted during their latest encounter with Homenetmen. Sagesse fans were also ...
Critiques
No More Political & Religious Slogans on Tripoli’s Roundabouts?
9 years agoTripoli’s municipality is trying to cut down on political & religious slogans in the city by removing all barriers across its roundabouts. Technically speaking, there’s no official decision taken yet to ban these slogans but ...
Critiques
#BeirutAirport: Birds Now Posing a Bigger Threat to Planes
9 years agoIt doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you shouldn’t set up a landfill next to an airport but that’s exactly what the Lebanese authorities did with the Costa Brava. After realizing what they’ve ...
BlogWaladi
#BlogWaladi: Brian’s First Hair Cut (Before & After)
9 years agoWe ended up going to PiiXELZ at ABC Dbayyeh for Brian’s first hair cut after I failed to convince my wife to let me do it 😛 The staff were friendly, Brian was surprisingly calm ...
Critiques
Turkish Flags Raised at the Homentmen-Riyadi Game
9 years agoUpdate 09/01/2017: Riyadi Sporting denounced the act and issued a clarification. A picture has emerged out of the Homenetmen-Riyadi Game tonight showing a couple of fans cheering for Riyadi and waving Turkish flags. This is ...
Middle East
Best AP 2016 Images From The Middle East
9 years ago2016 has been unfortunately a bloody year for the Middle East and the majority of this year’s top AP images are from wars or suicide bombings mainly from Iraq & Syria. Mercifully as put by ...