#Rio2016: Lebanon’s Population is 6.2 Million According to NBC

The 2016 Olympic Games were formally opened in a beautiful ceremony earlier today and were broadcasted to an estimated audience of three billion. These are the first ever Olympics to be held in South America and more than 200 teams are taking part in these games among them the Lebanese team of course. I missed the opening ceremony this morning but a friend sent me a screenshot showing the Lebanese team and how NBC displayed…

Aerial View of the Costa Brava Landfill

The Costa Brava landfill looks bad, it smells terrible and it's located at the worst place possible. People living next to the landfill should have been evacuated prior to its opening and proper measures should have been taken to contain the smell, which is worse than you could ever imagine. Also, setting up a landfill next to an airport poses a potential hazard to aircraft operations as it attracts birds and collisions with birds at…
Lebanon

Lebanese Competing At The Rio 2016 Olympics: Names + Full Schedule

9 years ago
There are nine Lebanese athletes competing in seven different sports at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics which kick off on Sunday. Mariana Sahakyan (Female) – Table tennis Ray Bassil (Female) – Shooting Chirine Njeim (Female) ...
Beirut

Beirut Municipality Wants to Ban Dogs On Sidewalks

9 years ago
Photo Credits: Achrafieh2020 Beirut’s Municipal Council met on Tuesday and issued a proposal to Beirut’s Governor Ziad Chbib to ban dogs, motorbikes and Arguile on all sidewalks on the Corniche Waterfront, as well as in ...
Baladi

Nocturne In Black By Jimmy Keyrouz Among The 2016 Student Academy Awards Finalists

9 years ago
The official list of Student Academy Awards finalists is out and “Nocturne in Black” by Jimmy Keyrouz from Columbia University is among them. Jimmy Keyrouz is a New York based director and screenwriter. He completed ...
Critiques

There are No Streets Named After Fairouz or Saba7 in Lebanon

9 years ago
An article published on Raseef22 was discussing the lack of streets named after artists in the Arab world and pointed out that there are no streets named after Fairouz in Lebanon, or Saba7 for that ...
Humor

Rola Yammout’s Video Explained

9 years ago
This is hilarious! Thanks Elie! ...
Health

How Badly Polluted is the Litani River?

9 years ago
Polluted Litani River Photo Credits: Gettyimages/JosephEid There are over 150 farms using Litani’s polluted water to irrigate crops even though the Litani is no longer suitable for swimming or irrigation. The high levels of pollution ...
Lebanon

First Pictures of The New Lebanese Biometric Passports

9 years ago
Biometric passports are officially available as of today. Anyone can apply for the new passport and those who wish to replace their old passports can also do so. According to the below FTV report, the ...
Food

Since Five Guys is Not Coming to Lebanon, We Might as Well Open Our Own!

9 years ago
A “Five Guys” burger & fries place just opened recently in Antoura. It even has five little guys underneath its logo. Obviously it’s not the real deal but I am actually tempted to try it ...
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