Beirut Stinks So Let’s Shine The Traffic Lights First

Garbage smells, mosquitoes invasion, allergies, diseases and then you find this guy cleaning the traffic lights one by one in Down Town Beirut, and the concerned ministries giving us warnings on Twitter. On another note, here's what Ziad Abi Chaker, one of Lebanon's leading garbage entrepreneurs, advises us to do to protect ourselves and our homes: In regards to the bad smells in Beirut and suburbs, these are due to the removal of the 7…

What The Naameh Residents Are Going Through Because Of The Landfill

The garbage crisis is first and foremost a health crisis and Naameh residents are the most affected by this crisis. Residents neighboring the landfill should have been given a financial indemnity as promised and moved outside the area long time ago. No one should be allowed to live near this poisonous and toxic landfill. The air is contaminated with various toxic substances, the water is contaminated by the landfill, the flies roaming around the garbage…
Critiques

Saudi-Owned Daily Asharq al-Awsat Removed The Disrespectful Lebanon Cartoon

9 years ago
Caricature published in the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper “April Fools… the Lebanese state” Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat angered Lebanese after it published a caricature earlier today depicting the Lebanese state as an April Fools’ joke. ...
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Snapchat’s Beirut Story: AUB, National Anthem, AUB, Ain el Mreisse, National Anthem, Fattit Shrimps

9 years ago
Snapchat has been featuring towns and cities as part of the “Life” Snapchat Stories and Beirut got its own Life Snapchat Story yesterday. Life stories are prepared by Snapchat and are basically a compilation of ...
Critiques

Najwa Karam’s Message to All Working Mothers

9 years ago
via MBC1 This is not an April Fool’s prank and this is coming from someone who is not married and doesn’t have children. نجوي كرم توجه رسالة لكل امرأة قد تراها بعض النساء صدمة #شط_بحر_الهوى ...
Critiques

Enough With Celebratory Gunfire!

9 years ago
A 5 year old kid was hit and killed by a stray bullet from a funeral gunfire in Beirut’s southern suburbs back in June 2015. Yesterday, Bettina Raidy, an 8 year old girl, was struck ...
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Yet Another Environmental Disaster: Jiyeh Sea Filled With Garbage

9 years ago
The old Lebanese proverb “أعمل منيح وكب بالبحر” should be changed into “يا بهيم حاجي تكب بالبحر”. As if Israel’s deliberate bombardment of fuel tanks in Jiyeh back in 2006 wasn’t enough to pollute the ...
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Beirut’s Raouché Rock Lit Up with Lebanese & Belgian Flags

9 years ago
The Raouché rock in Beirut was lit up with the Lebanese and Belgian flags, in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks that hit Brussels few days ago. Beirut’s Pigeon Rock was also illuminated ...
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Sagesse (Hekmeh) Players Went on Strike Over Non-Payment of Salary

9 years ago
I was told by a friend who’s a loyal Sagesse fan that the players have stopped going to practice since Thursday until they get paid. Hekmeh players only got paid once this entire season and ...
Critiques

With or Against Cancelling The Brevet Official Exams in Lebanon?

9 years ago
MPs Serge Torsarkissian and Nadim Gemayel submitted last week a law draft to cancel the Brevet official exams. Their argument is that the certificate no longer matches the development pace of the curriculum in Lebanese ...
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