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Najib
Jun 02, 2018 11:33
Retired Brigadier General Maroun Hitti became the fourth Lebanese citizen to be awarded the Honorary Member of the Order of the British Empire award during ceremony held at the British Ambassador's residence in Beirut. General Hitti was granted this award for services to Security in the Levant, after playing a crucial role in "creating the excellent defence relationship between the Lebanese Armed Forces and the UK, in particular in the design and implementation of the…
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Najib
Jun 01, 2018 02:37
The first time I wrote about Ali Wehbe back in 2014, he was running Lebanon for 12 days in 12 different marathons to raise and support the Lebanese Austism Society . This year, Ali Wehbe was able to set a new Guinness world record for the fastest crossing of Lebanon on foot in just 1 day 15 hr 49 min. Wehbe attempted this record on the second of April, which is known as "World Autism…
Baladi
6 years ago
Lebanese-Palestinian Lina Rafeh, director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University, was included on the world’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2018, a ...
Baladi
6 years ago
LAU students with the help of the environmental NGO Chreek have built the biggest Phoenician ship made out of plastic. The Phoenician-shaped trireme is 13 meters long, 4 meters wide, is made out of 25,000 ...
Baladi
6 years ago
Nadine Labaki may not be the first Lebanese director to win the Jury Prize at Cannes but she is the first Lebanese female director to do so, and the first Arab filmmaker to win an ...
Baladi
6 years ago
Nadine Labaki’s latest film, “Capharnaum“, earned a massive 15-minute standing ovation following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and people are already favoring her for winning Cannes’ top honor on Saturday. The distribution rights ...
Baladi
6 years ago
The garbage crisis is still ongoing just in case anyone’s wondering, and while we were all distracted by the elections, garbage is still piling up and being dumped into the Mediterranean. However, there are still ...
Baladi
6 years ago
The American University of Beirut has officially become a Guinness World Record Holder after building the largest notebook mosaic-flag. The flag consisted of around 60,000 notebooks and was unveiled tonight on the Green field on ...
Baladi
6 years ago
The “Jezzine Hub” is a youth-led community center that organizes workshops, cultural activities and offers support for innovative ideas in an attempt to strengthen the involvement of Jezzine young citizens in the socio-economic development of ...
Baladi
6 years ago
I remember back when were kids, we’d spend weekends in the village playing football on dirt or on tarmac not because our village was poor, but because it was far from the city and no ...
