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Art

The National Library Officially Reopens (Again)

3 years ago
The National Library was officially reopened in 2018 after 39 years but it had to be closed once again following the damages caused by the 2020 Beirut blast. Qatar had already sponsored the efforts to ...
Information

215,563 Lebanese Left the Country Since 2017

3 years ago
According to the latest report published by Information International, more than 215,000 individuals have immigrated/traveled from Lebanon between 2017 and 2021, including 79,134 last year alone. The statistics are based on on data provided by ...
Lebanon

The Economist Democracy Index: Lebanon Now Labeled as an “Authoritarian Regime”

3 years ago
More than a third of the world’s population is living under authoritarian rule according to the 2021 Economist’ Global Democracy Index, and only 21 countries were labeled as full democracies. Pandemic restrictions have damaged democratic ...
Baladi

Xposure To Sponsor Refugee Boy Photographed Reading A Book in The Garbage

3 years ago
Rodrigues Mghames’ photo of the 10-year old boy reading in the garbage dump, which went viral on all social media channels, has been featured in this year’s XPOSURE International Photography Festival, and the festival has ...
Critiques

Over $40 Million of PCR Tests Revenues To Be Returned to Health Ministry & Lebanese University

3 years ago
Following Riad Tawk’s TV report on the missing PCR revenues from the tests performed at the Rafik Hariri airport, Public Prosecutor at the Court of Audit Judge Fawzi Khamis has issued a decision to return ...
Critiques

Suspects in Beirut Blast Probe Are Running For The 2022 Elections

3 years ago
Nabih Berri’s Amal movement has apparently decided to nominate suspects in the Beirut Blast probe Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zaaiter for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Khalil will run in the Hasbayya district while Zaaiter ...
Art

Tony Maalouf’s Contribution To Pfizer’s World Cancer Awareness Month 2022

3 years ago
As part of Pfizer’s #WorldCancerAwarenessMonth2022 campaign, Tony Maalouf (Interior Architect & Kick-ass Illustrator) produced this powerful animation to illustrate how a supporting network can make all the difference in a cancer patient’s life. This support ...
Opinions/critiques

Between Rayan’s Tragic Death & The Chilean Rescue Team’s Heroics in Beirut

3 years ago
Rescue efforts to save ‘Little Rayan” who fell into a dry well last Tuesday ended on Saturday but Rayan was declared dead shortly after being brought out. Whether he had died while trapped or not ...
Lebanon

Lebanese Nabu Museum To Return 337 Ancient Artifacts to Iraq

3 years ago
Nabu Museum was inaugurated in 2018, but little did we know that hundreds of its antiquities were actually smuggled from Iraq following the 2003 US invasion and what the years of war and instability that ...
Baladi

Four Lebanese on Forbes MENA’s Most Powerful Business Women

3 years ago
Forbes published this year’s list of MENA’s most influential and successful businesswomen and four Lebanese women made it to the list. The ranking is based on several criteria including accomplishments achieved over the last year, ...
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