Beirut Electricity App Featured In #Apple’s WWDC16

Beirut Electricity, an app that calculates the power outage hours in Beirut was featured in Apple's New Beginnings video ahead of the WWDC16. This app basically "tracks the rolling three-hour outages and predicts when the power is on days, weeks, months and even years in advance". The app also works on the Apple Watch. Of course it's pretty cool to be featured in Apple's promo but I wish it could have been for something more…

It Took This Saida Resident A Decade To Realize He’s Living in a Synagogue

Most of the Lebanese Jews lived in Beirut but there were also communities in other cities like Saida and Tripoli. In fact, there were around 1,500 Jews living in Saida in the early 1970s according to Nagi Georges Zeidan, who memorialized Lebanon's Jewish community by researching its history and creating a database. Unfortunately, the last Jewish family in Sidon, the Levy family, left in the early 1980s and the synagogue was abandoned and has become…
Art

Beirut Cultural Festivals Kick off Tonight With A Massive Visual & Musical Tribute to Beirut

9 years ago
The Beirut Cultural Festivals will be held for the first time this year from May 17th till May 22nd at Beirut’s waterfront area. The festival will kick off tonight with a tribute to Beirut itself, ...
Beirut

Beirut Municipality Doesn’t Have a Website

9 years ago
I was looking online for Beirut Municipality’s website to look for some information only to find that they don’t have one. The website is under construction (since ever?). I see the Beirutis list got their ...
Art

The Beirut Rose House Collective

9 years ago
Two years ago, the famous 19th century Beirut mansion Rose House (La Maison Rose) was open to the public as British Artist Tom Young showcased his work and hosted a series of events at “La ...
Beirut

The Eternal Magic of Beirut By The New York Times

9 years ago
I just finished reading “The Eternal Magic of Beirut”, an article by Michael Specter published on the NY Times. It’s one of the best articles I’ve read on Beirut in a long time. Here are ...
Art

ASHEKMAN’s New #ZiadRahbani Calligraffiti in Beirut

9 years ago
ASHEKMAN put the final touches yesterday to their latest #‎calligraffiti portraying Ziad Rahbani with his famous quote “Bennesbeh Labokra Chou?”, or in English “What about tomorrow?”. The graffiti is strategically located at the center of ...
Automotive

Sunday Morning Escape

9 years ago
You might have visited every city in the country, but if you have not experienced Lebanon by bike then you have definitely been missing out. Three years ago, my friends got me a bike, they ...
Beirut

Clue Club: The Coolest & Most Challenging Escape Game in Beirut!

9 years ago
If you are bored of the same old plans every weekend and want to do something fun and intellectually challenging, I highly recommend you visit Clue Club in Hamra and try to escape from one ...
Beirut

I Support Beirut Madinati (Beirut-My City)

9 years ago
I could name a thousand reasons why I love Beirut. I love its old streets, its authentic houses and shops, its crowded cafes and pubs, the contrast between old and new, the hidden gems that ...
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