Posted By
Najib
Mar 03, 2024 10:38
I discovered an amazing Instagram account sharing the raw untold stories of Beirut's People. The account came to my attention after one of their stories went viral, the story of an old man talking about his first love, a young woman who studied at AUB and lived in Saida; the two got separated and lost touch because of war and he found out 40 years later she moved to Australia and got married. They have…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 28, 2024 05:29
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has appointed this week Farah Dakhlallah as the new NATO spokesperson. Farah had worked before as a communications manager at the WHO and an Arabic spokeswoman for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office between 2014 and 2016. She will succeed Oana Lungescu, who served as spokeswoman from 2010 to 2023. Farah went to school at IC in Beirut and then majored in Audiovisual Arts at USJ. She then moved to…
Baladi
9 months ago
Beirut has several beautiful coffee shops, maybe some of the most beautiful worldwide according to this CNN article. In fact, Beirut-based Kalei Coffee Co. was featured in “Designing Coffee: New Coffee Places and Branding”, a ...
Advertising
10 months ago
The IAA Lebanon Chapter held its first IAA Half of Fame at Casino du Liban on January 27th and “honoured 17 railblazing individuals whose remarkable contributions have left an indelible mark on our advertising landscape”, ...
Baladi
10 months ago
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants is an annual publication highlighting the best 50 restaurants in the MENA region. In this year’s list, three Beiruti restaurants were featured: Em Sherif, Baron and Tawlet Mar Mikhail while ...
Baladi
10 months ago
The International Court of Justice issued a press release today announcing that Judge Nawaf Salam was elected President for a term of three years. Salam had become a member of the Court in 2018 after ...
Alcohol
10 months ago
Four Lebanese whiskies were featured in the buying guide of Whisky Advocate magazine fall 2023 issue. Whisky Advocate magazine is America’s leading spirits publication and one of the world’s leading whisky magazines. Ever since its ...
Baladi
10 months ago
After completing their pilgrimage to Spain’s Santiago de Compostela in 2018, a group of Lebanese decided to put in place Lebanon’s first long-distance pilgrimage route, a 130km route crossing 40 villages and covering significant places ...
Baladi
10 months ago
I had shared a post earlier last week about “Piste Nabil” at Mzaar and the reason behind its naming, and one of the blog’s readers (Thank you Lesly!) was kind enough to send me the ...
Baladi
11 months ago
A mosaic representing Saint Charbel will be put on display in St Peter’s Basilica today at 7pm. Saint Charbel is a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest who was beatified in 1965 and venerated as a ...
