Posted By
Najib
Mar 02, 2017 10:42
Facebook recently launched the #SheMeansBusiness global program to train and inspire women entrepreneurs on using Facebook and Instagram as platforms for their businesses. They are partnering with organizations in the UAE and Egypt to enable opportunities for 10,000 women in the MENA region by 2018. For that purpose, #SheMeansBusiness will run a series of workshops, training sessions and online resources to arm women entrepreneurs with the knowledge, connections, skills and technology required to build and…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 26, 2017 07:54
Two weeks after winning the “Concert/Musical Show of the Year” award at France's 32nd edition of “Victoires de la Musique”, French-Lebanese trumpet player and teacher and composer Ibrahim Maalouf won a César for "Best Original Score" at France's most prominent film awards. Maalouf was nominated for the same category two years ago as well but did not win. Here's a showing Maalouf receiving his award and an after the awards ceremony. It is worth noting…
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Pierre Sadek was Lebanon’s leading political caricaturist and a genius. During my AUB years, I spent countless hours looking through old archives and checking his brilliant newspapers caricatures from the 70s and 80s. Following his ...
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This year marks the 9th edition of Beirut Chants, a festival that has become one of the Christmas season’s most anticipated events. Every year during Christmas, concerts are organized in all of Beirut’s historical churches ...
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I was introduced to Christmas in Action last year by a friend and had the honor to meet Cynthia Bou Khater few weeks back, the woman behind this year’s biggest Christmas event and IN Action, ...
