Posted By
Najib
Oct 09, 2017 10:44
So it's finally happening. Two Super Tucano aircrafts have arrived to Lebanon and were handed to the Lebanese Army. LebanesePlaneSpotters managed to get ahold of a video showing the plane flying over Hamat. The A-29 Super Tucano is a turboprop light attack aircraft designed for counter-insurgency, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance missions in low-threat environments, as well as providing pilot training. The aircrafts can come in handy in fighting terrorists and patrolling the borders.
Posted By
Najib
Oct 08, 2017 08:00
Every AUB student is familiar with Maryam Ghandour's emails. Dr. Ghandour has been the head of the Career and Placement Services in the Office of Student Affairs at the American University of Beirut for as long as I can remember. She's been relentlessly helping AUB graduates locate and secure their first professional jobs and has been organizing successful job fair exhibitions year after year despite the unstable political situation. Her job is a very tough…
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7 years ago
I’ve been hearing about these Tucano aircrafts since 2014 but the Lebanese Army still didn’t get any of them. Al Jomhouriya is claiming we will get two aircrafts before end of this month and LBCI ...
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7 years ago
Twelve Lebanese made it to the Forbes Top 100 Most powerful Arab businesswomen this year, and five of them were named among the world’s 10 most powerful Arab Women. However, all five of them almost ...
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7 years ago
If you’re a non-resident Lebanese who’s eligible to vote in the upcoming Lebanese elections, you only have 47 days left to register on the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s website. You can also access the mobile ...
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7 years ago
A stamp honoring Carlos Ghosn, one of the world’s most respected business leaders, was unveiled today by LibanPost during a ceremony at Zaitunay Bay. It’s another edition to LibanPost’s series of collectable stamps and the ...
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7 years ago
Nahnoo NGO shared a live video from inside Horsh Beirut yesterday and stated that the Harsh has finally reopened to the public after a 3-month closure. Beirut’s largest green space was closed down after its ...
Automotive
7 years ago
I wrote about the new biometric driving licenses a year ago but yesterday was the first time I see one of them, probably because the existing ones need 30 years to expire. Anyway, the new ...
Baladi
7 years ago
A recent paper entitled “Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences” has proven that more “than 90 percent of the genetic ancestry of ...
Baladi
7 years ago
Stefano Fallaha may be Lebanon’s and the Middle East’s youngest entrepreneur and he was just nominated to represent Lebanon and the American University of Beirut at the 2017 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Making it to ...