Posted By
Najib
Mar 27, 2023 03:34
A while back, I stumbled upon a short video depicting a Tintin au Liban parody edition. The video showed an English edition which seemingly was issued by the National Lampoon magazine, an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998 and was a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon. However, the only reference to this edition I could find were scanned copies of the full French edition, which is good enough for me :D I…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 27, 2023 02:29
Lebanese Photographer Fredy Chemaly shared AI generated portraits for Lebanese cities and the results are amazing and some quite accurate. The pictures shared below are respectively for Zahle, Tripoli, Chouf, Broumanna and Batroun. You can check out the rest like Kobayat, Tyre, Jounieh, Nabatieh, Beirut and others .
Art
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The National Library was officially reopened in 2018 after 39 years but it had to be closed once again following the damages caused by the 2020 Beirut blast. Qatar had already sponsored the efforts to ...
Art
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Art
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A 1908 painting of a Lebanese family overlooking the Mediterranean from their Ghazir house caught my attention on Twitter, so I decided to look further into its owner and discovered Philippe Jabre’s mesmerizing collection of ...
Art
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Architecture
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Art
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Art
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“Everyone is the creator of one’s own faith”, these were the last words written by Gaïa Fodoulian on Instagram after spending the day out with her mother. That same day, Gaïa had returned home when ...
Art
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If you’ve ever wondered, like myself, who are the brilliant minds behind Walt Disney and Pixar’s animated movies, you’d be happily surprised to know one of them is a Lebanese animator and a former schoolmate. ...
