Lebanese Dabke in The Streets of Brussels

Nothing comes close to our Lebanese Dabke. I have no idea what the occasion was or how recent that video is but it's pretty cool. If there's one thing that still unites the Lebanese here and abroad, it's our food and Dabke dance :)

Ziad Doueiri Was Released & Got His Passports Back

After being shortly detained at Beirut airport on Sunday, French-Lebanese Ziad Doueiri appeared today in front of a Lebanese military court and was released on bail. Doueiri, whose latest movie "The Insult", won the Venice Film Festival’s best actor prize, was being interrogated for alleged collaboration with Israel during the filming of “The Attack". According to Doueiri, no charges were filed against him and he stated that he was respectfully treated by the authorities. A…
Art

ASHEKMAN Awesome new Mural in Baalbeck

8 years ago
ASHEKMAN teamed up with a local independent NGO (الجمعية اللبنانية للتعايش والانماء) in Baalbeck and came up with one awesome mural honoring Lebanon’s titans Fairouz, Sabah and Wadih el Safi. The aim was to beautify ...
Alcohol

Castle Black: A Game Of Thrones-Themed Bar in Zahle

8 years ago
I was checking some LBCI report on that pub and looked up its Facebook page. Castle Black is a Game Of Thrones themed bar open in Zahle and apparently the first in Lebanon. They’re showing ...
Baladi

Venice’74: Kamel el Basha Wins Best Actor Award For “The Insult” by Ziad Doueiri

8 years ago
The Insult by Ziad Doueiri clinched its first international award as Kamel el Basha, who plays the Palestinian refugee (Yasser), won Best Actor Award – Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup) at the Venice 2017 festival. “The ...
Baladi

In Pictures: Ibrahim Shaker Palace – Ras Al Jabal / Aley

8 years ago
Saudi business magnate Ibrahim Shaker had his villa built in one of the most strategic locations in Aley in the 1950s. Shaker was a business pioneer in Saudi Arabia and a member of the Administrative ...
Animals & Wildlife

Hunting Crimes in Mount Lebanon Documented by The Committee Against Bird Slaughter

8 years ago
The indiscriminate killing of migratory birds is still ongoing in Lebanon and the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) documented one of the many massacres taking place following a visit to Mount Lebanon. I heard a ...
Fashion

BOSHIES: Reinventing the Tarboosh

8 years ago
We all love the iconic Tarboosh, an icon of traditional masculinity that was worn by Lebanon’s very own first president, Bechara el Khoury as well as Riad el Solh and several Arab leaders such as ...
Food

NYTimes on the Sahyoun Falafel Rivalry

8 years ago
NYTimes published yesterday a great piece on the Sahyoun brothers falafel rivalry. Zuheir Sahyoun & Fuad Sahyoun both inherited the Falafel business from their father Mustapha Sahyoun but then the younger brother broke away and ...
Critiques

A National Day of Mourning & An Investigation Into the 2014 Events

8 years ago
The DNA tests on Wednesday verified that the remains found near the Lebanese-Syrian border belong to the missing army men and a national day of mourning was declared on Friday. The relatives of the slain ...
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