Stop Hating On Lebanon

These two pictures were part of the FB post that went viral, yet were not taken in Lebanon Every now and then, we see a new post about Lebanon going viral on Facebook, with the same set of cliché pictures and the same "40 Interesting Facts about Lebanon" that we've been hearing ever since people started using the internet, the whole "Lebanon has 18 sects, 40 daily newspapers, is 6000 years old, is not a…

Why Is Noah Zaaiter Giving TV Interviews?

For those of you who don't know Noah Zaaiter , he is one of Lebanon's most notorious drug lords and the leader of the country's most powerful drug family. Even though there are tens if not hundreds of warrants against him, he seems pretty relaxed and has given over 3 TV interviews recently. I can understand a one-time interview with one of the local TVs but when a state-owned TV interviews him and he's giving…
Critiques

Civil Defense Volunteers No Longer Responding To Emergency Calls

9 years ago
Civil Defense volunteers were distributing this memo on Friday night where they state that they are no longer responding to emergency calls until the government passes the decree and they become full-timers. I am not ...
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The General Security Adding More Confusion To The Renewed By Hand Passports

9 years ago
via Annahar First they released a memo that all those who have old renewed passports or passports that include accompanied individuals such as children need to get new passports before the 10th of January, after ...
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Asking The Wrong Questions

9 years ago
MTV shared yesterday a chart that showed the Ministry of Public Works spending by area, in order to “prove” that Christians areas are barely receiving 18% of the total expenditure. They picked cities that have ...
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Do We Need A Second Airport In Lebanon?

9 years ago
A friend sent me the above picture few days ago and asked me if it was feasible to make use of the Kleiat airport for commercial landings and take offs. I answered that renovating the ...
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Why is It so Hard To Approve The Civil Defense Volunteers Decree?

9 years ago
The government failed today to pass a decree that would have made Civil Defense volunteers full-time workers because they ran out of time! The volunteers have been protesting for almost 2 months now, they vowed ...
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“Gods of Egypt” Movie Renamed to “Kings of Egypt” in Lebanon

9 years ago
via Jad Does anyone know why Gerard Butler’s latest movie “Gods of Egypt” was renamed to “Kings of Egypt” in Lebanon? I first thought it was a mistake but then I noticed the same poster ...
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Safety Measures At Jeita Grotto Were Never Good Enough

9 years ago
On Saturday, an Egyptian tourist called Mina Ashraf Wadih died in the lower part of Jeita Grotto after he accidentally slipped in between a gap between the dock and the boat and fell into the ...
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Beware of Fishy Contractors Digging Up Your Neighborhoods

9 years ago
Update: The company who was digging is called Caporal and Moretti on behalf of the Ministry of Telecom. They came today and fixed the lines and everything. A couple of weeks back, I was visiting ...
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