Posted By
Najib
Jul 05, 2017 10:33
I'm glad the Beirut municipality has finally decided to clean Martyrs Square's statue and plant some flowers around it. The statue and the walls surrounding it were repeatedly vandalized unfortunately during the protests and sit-ins in the past few years and the municipality hasn't done much to preserve the square. In fact, even though it looks much nicer now, the statue is barely showing with all the buildings around it and cars parked next to…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 04, 2017 05:07
FC Barcelona stars Sergio Busquets, Gerard Piqué & Jordi Alba arrived to Beirut yesterday to take part in Roda Antar's farewell football game. Roda Antar is one of Lebanon's most successful football players and the all-time leading goal scorer for the Lebanese National team with 20 goals. More importantly, Antar is the only Lebanese professional football player to join a professional foreign team whereas he played for Hamburger SV for three seasons, before moving to…
Baladi
8 years ago
Here’s a 6-minute short movie on Mohammad Ali Neimeh, the man who cultivates Lebanon’s wild herb and who’s a thyme passionate. Mohammad, also known as Abou Kassem, used to collect thyme from the fields and ...
Baladi
8 years ago
Beirut Planting Roofs is the latest experiment by Ziad Abichaker, The “Garbage King”, where he’s teaming up with the American University of Beirut to install vertical planters made out of Eco-board panels on a rooftop ...
Fun
8 years ago
Following the latest Burkini controversy, a summer resort in Zgharta is now allowing veiled women wearing Burkinis to swim on Tuesdays only. When asked by one of the readers on why it’s only allowed on ...
Architecture
8 years ago
Lifehaus is the first low cost fully self-sufficient project in the Middle East that is designed to lower the carbon footprint using upcycled, local materials and ancestral techniques. The founder and architect behind LifeHaus is ...
Advertising
8 years ago
I noticed Al Rifai’s ads all over the billboards in the past few days and wasn’t sure if they were celebrating a milestone or sending out a message. I checked their Facebook page and they ...
Events
8 years ago
We were talking about summer festivals last week and someone mentioned that Wael Kfoury is performing in like 10 festivals, which is not quite common given how highly-rated and popular the singer is. But I ...
Art
8 years ago
Wednesday June 28th was the opening night for Beirut’s Cultural Festivals and the first screening of a “Journey Through Time”, the festival’s centerpiece and a true masterpiece. From the live orchestra, the script, the spectacular ...
Food
8 years ago
Even if you weren’t that familiar with the Broumana area, you only needed to follow the traffic and the lights yesterday to spot the newly open Roadster Diner & Zaatar w Zeit outlets. The new ...
