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Najib
Oct 29, 2022 08:26
The heartbreaking story of Lebanon's national football team in the most recent World Cup qualification will be featured in Netflix's "Captains" docuseries. The series tells the story of six different captains, including Lebanon's captain Hassan Maatouk, during the 20229 World Cup qualification. The other featured captains are former Gabon captain Pierre Emeric Aubameyang, Brazil’s Thiago Silva, Brian Kaltak of Vanuatu, Andre Blake of Jamaica and Luka Modric of Croatia. Lebanon failed to qualify to the…
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Najib
Oct 29, 2022 06:47
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun is spending his last week in Baabda giving out interviews and medals of merit. That's not very different from any other president, except Aoun appears to be keen on awarding medals almost exclusively to followers of his political party or sympathizers. I'm not very familiar with the conditions that a candidate needs to meet to get a medal, but one cannot but question giving out one to a journalist who doesn't…
Baladi
4 months ago
I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard up until now about the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a rare neuromuscular disease which affects around 3 million people worldwide. There’s no treatment yet for the CMT disease and its symptoms ...
Baladi
4 months ago
Lebanon’s mesmerizing dance group Mayyas has just earned a nomination for the 2022 People’s Choice Awards under the “Best Competition Contestant of 2022” category. The Mayyas has recently won Season 17 of America’s Got Talent ...
Lebanon
4 months ago
Carlos Ghosn’s rise and fall, the tensions he sparked with Nissan-Renault, his dramatic arrest and unbelievable escape are chronicled in this Netflix documentary. Ghosn escaped from Japan in December 2019 and currently resides in Beirut. ...
Critiques
5 months ago
18 months ago, the Lebanese government was expected to sign decree No.6433/2011 to preserve its maritime rights during the ongoing indirect discussions with the Israeli side. However the government decided to disregard this request and ...
Baladi
5 months ago
This year marks the second edition of Banque BEMO’s “Back to Our Cedars Roots” initiative, which is aimed at restoring pride in what Lebanon stands for and reinforcing the sense of belonging for anyone of ...
Food
5 months ago
Clément’s out-of-this-world pastries & desserts are now available for delivery & pick up in the UAE and I can never recommend these guys enough! From the plain croissants with the crispy outer shell, flaky layers ...
Baladi
5 months ago
Rebirth Beirut, an NGO founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion, continues to engage in relief efforts across the city and its latest is an initiative to light more and more ...
Business
5 months ago
Reuters reported today that the Lebanese Central Bank is set to drop the 1,507 rate that has been used since 1997 and replace it with LL 15,000 for every 1 U.S dollar by the end ...