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Lebanon has The World’s Highest Nominal Inflation Rate at 139%

2 years ago
According to World Bank’s latest Food Security Update report, Lebanon has the highest nominal inflation rate in the world at 139% followed closely by Zimbabwe at 138% and Argentina at 108%. The food inflation rate ...
History

Antonov Airplane Crash in 1977 Over Aramoun Lebanon

2 years ago
I came across this story from 1977 on LebanonArchives’ timeline and it was the first time I hear about it. An Antonov airplane departed from Varna carrying a crew of nine and tons of frozen ...
Lebanon

U.S. Sanctions Notorious Lebanese Drug Dealers Noah Zaaiter and Hassan Daqqou

2 years ago
The United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions today against six people, four Syrians and two Lebanese, for their role in the production or export of captagon, a dangerous amphetamine. The four Syrians ...
Art

Tintin au Liban (Full Issue)

2 years ago
A while back, I stumbled upon a short video depicting a Tintin au Liban parody edition. The video showed an English edition which seemingly was issued by the National Lampoon magazine, an American humor magazine ...
Art

AI Generated Portraits for Lebanese Cities

2 years ago
Lebanese Photographer Fredy Chemaly shared AI generated portraits for Lebanese cities and the results are amazing and some quite accurate. The pictures shared below are respectively for Zahle, Tripoli, Chouf, Broumanna and Batroun. You can ...
Critiques

Lebanon Was Not Given a Deadline by The IMF To Implement Reforms

2 years ago
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund concluded its visit to Lebanon on March 23 and issued a statement summing up its mission & pointing out the parties responsible for hindering financial recovery. These parties ...
Baladi

HSBC Appoints Lebanese Patrick George as Head of Markets & Security Services

2 years ago
Patrick George, a Lebanese expat and Concordia graduate, kicked off his banking career with a Lebanese private bank (FFA Private Bank) in 1994 before moving to HSBC in 1996 to manage the Emerging Markets Equities ...
Critiques

We Need a New Airport, Not a New Airport Terminal

2 years ago
The Minister of Public Works & Transport announced on Twitter yesterday plans to build a new terminal at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport with a foreign investment of $122 million, noting that no expansion plans ...
Critiques

World Happiness Report 2023: Lebanon & Afghanistan at the Bottom

2 years ago
The World Happiness Report released its annual ranking of the happiest & unhappiest countries in the world and Lebanon was ranked at the bottom along with Afghanistan. The report uses six key factors to measure ...
Critiques

Lebanon Postpones Daylight Saving Time Until April 21 For Ramadan

2 years ago
A memorandum was issued today by the Lebanese government to postpone Daylight Saving Time, which was set to start on Sunday March 26, until April 21 which marks the end of the Ramadan month. In ...
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