Personal
Like Father, Like Son
9 years agoA week after clinching The 2016 Young Investigator Award, my brother collected two new awards this week: The Humanitas award for being a good human and another award for being an awesome clinician. He dedicated ...
Architecture
Casa Brutale: Stunning Faqra House Built Inside A Cliff
9 years agoNetherlands-based architects Open Platform for Architecture (OPA) are building a cliff residence in Faqra for Demco Properties’s CEO Alex Demirdjian. The 2,906 square feet residence should be completed by 2018. Looking at OPA’s website, the ...
Beirut
Beirut Electricity App Featured In #Apple’s WWDC16
9 years agoBeirut Electricity, an app that calculates the power outage hours in Beirut was featured in Apple’s New Beginnings video ahead of the WWDC16. This app basically “tracks the rolling three-hour outages and predicts when the ...
Critiques
Verdun Bombing Update: Canadian Embassy Denies Sending Any Security Instruction
9 years agoFew minutes after the unfortunate Verdun bombing occurred yesterday night, everyone started sharing a security instruction supposedly sent by the Canadian Embassy and the UN to their staff “warning them to stay away from all ...
Food
Breakfast at Furn el Sabaya: Home-Made, Delicious & Clean
9 years agoI’ve been meaning to visit this small bakery for quite some time but I never got the chance to do so. However on Sunday, Brian woke up early and everyone was still asleep, so I ...
Lebanon
Eight Lebanese Competing At The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics
9 years agoRichard Mourjan – The First Lebanese Canoeist to take part in the Olympic Games Rio is the proud host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Lebanon is represented by 8 athletes this year covering seven ...
Lebanon
Save The Ba2douniss
9 years agoThis is a hilarious animation video but the message it is trying to pass is not funny at all. In fact, it reflects perfectly the sad truth we are living in: that climate change is ...
Business
Four Lebanese Banks Among Forbes’ Top 100 Arab Companies Of 2016
9 years agoThe 2016 Forbes list of the Top 100 Arab Companies 2016 is out and four Lebanese banks made the list. To rank the top 100, Forbes started with 1,316 publicly-traded companies from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ...
Health
A Report On The Beach Water Quality Along Lebanon’s Coast
9 years agoTripoli Beaches – Photo Credits: Souad Sbaiti This is a follow-up on a post I wrote back in April. A sea water monitoring study was conducted by the National Center for Marine Sciences (I had ...
Critiques
They Are Building a Hospital Near Horsh Beirut!
9 years agovia Nahnoo Horsh Beirut was closed to the public for more than 20 years by the Beirut Municipality for fear of vandalism and poor maintenance, and due to the lack of resources to protect the ...