The evolution of electricity in Lebanon

1964: Electricte du Liban was founded. Its aim was to provide electricity to all Lebanese regions. 1975-1990: Civil war, no electricity for days, sometimes weeks. Power cuts all the time. Since 1990, it has been progressing in the following way: - Ma fi Kahraba. Bassita kelloun 6 hours bil nhar! - Yel3an ekht el Kahraba. 12 hours bil nhar mich ma7moule. Sar Badda Moteur. - Hay dawoule hay! El Kahraba toul mela la wara. Sar…

Water bags to keep flies away

That's the first time I hear about this, but apparently it's a common practice in some Lebanese restaurants and houses to put water bags to keep flies away from their food. I made a quick search and surprisingly it's a common practice everywhere in the world. Opinions however are split on whether this really works or not. As far as I am concerned, there were no flies to be seen in Al Erzel in Faraya…
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Alfa Waffer ??

14 years ago
This was pointed out by one of the blog’s readers. Alfa Waffer new plan includes a prepaid emergency card that costs 4$ and gets you 10 minutes only. 4$ = 6000 LL for 10 minutes ...
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Less Tourists, yet more traffic

14 years ago
We have around 40% less tourists than last year yet the traffic is still the same and even getting worse. What’s even more interesting is that we lost 65% of our tourists coming by land ...
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MOC Winners… really?

14 years ago
When you pass through Beirut Airport you might notice that there are some really flashy cars on display to be won. There are usually 1,500 tickets per car selling at about 120$ / ticket, unless ...
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Miss Farah on MTV

14 years ago
[YouTube] Blogger and teacher “Miss Farah” was recently on MTV discussing new techniques to avoid stress. You can watch her interview above or visit her blog [Here] ...
Food

Food poisoning in Lebanon

14 years ago
I was back from an outing yesterday when I joined my dad in watching Marcel Ghanem’s Kalam el Nass which happened to be on food regulation in Lebanon and health concerns after the poisoning that ...
Automotive

Another Riddle of the Day

14 years ago
Anyone can guess which road this is? The reason I decided to make it as a riddle is that this is one of the most highly frequented shortcut roads in the Keserwan area, yet hasn’t ...
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Riddle of the day

14 years ago
I spotted this guy while changing oil to my car. Anyone remembers who’s the guy on the right? Hint: Not a big fan of jokes. ...
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Mobi or Wise?

14 years ago
I just arrived to Lebanon last night and my DSL at home is not working. I’m actually at ABC Debayeh sitting at Nestle Toll House accessing internet from there since I don’t have access anywhere ...
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