What’s Happening To The Famous Red House in Hamra?

I used to pass by this house a lot during my AUB years and I always took a peek inside. The Red House is one of Ras Beirut's oldest houses and its most traditional ones. Its construction began in the 18th century and completed later on in the 20th century. I remember going once inside but I didn't have any cameras back then to capture its beauty. All I know is that this place was…

Seriously? Two Syrians ARRESTED For Having Aids

Update: The two Syrians who were arrested were accused of criminal transmission of HIV. Whoever posted this news in the first place should have got the whole story correct because the title was disgraceful and misleading. Read the clarification . Thanks Patty! Why would you arrest someone for having AIDS? Since when is it a crime to have AIDS? If anything, they should be sent to a hospital to be diagnosed and treated. The article…
Critiques

Save Adloun’s Historic Beaches

10 years ago
As if we needed further pollution and crimes against nature in Lebanon, there are plans apparently to turn the beautiful and historic Adloun beach into a fancy sea port. Adloun is small beautiful town in ...
Critiques

Be Like Michel, Wala 3a Belak Bel

10 years ago
Artist: Hassan Bleibel Be like Michel, Smuggle explosives into the country, call them fireworks. Plan terrorist attacks and assassinations, claim you were a victim of entrapment. Receive money from a foreign country, pretend you were ...
Information

Is The Lebanese Passport The Most Expensive In The World?

10 years ago
via Speaktheblues I was watching Hayda 7aki yesterday and they were comparing the price of a Lebanese passport vs other passports from around the world, so I looked up the world’s most expensive passports and ...
Advertising

The Worst Possible Engine Oil Ad?

10 years ago
Source The oil that runs your car can also cook your fries. Tempting isn’t it? Thanks Eli! ...
Lebanon

The Lebanese General Security Did Not Confiscate My Passport

10 years ago
I just got back to Beirut earlier this morning and I got past the General Security just like I do every time. My renewed passport wasn’t confiscated and I wasn’t even warned that I can ...
History

The Legendary Palmyra Hotel In Baalbeck: Open Since 1874

10 years ago
I’ve been to Baalbeck quite a few times but I never had the chance to visit the legendary Palmyra hotel there. The hotel is one of the oldest in Lebanon, if not the oldest, and ...
Critiques

Charbel Khalil’s Lousy Take on The Siege & Starvation Of Madaya

10 years ago
A lot of graphic images of death and starvation have emerged in the past few days out of Madaya, yet a lot of these pictures were not confirmed by aid groups and are probably fake. ...
Information

Watch Out! You May Need A New Lebanese Passport

10 years ago
The General Security released an important memo a couple of weeks ago but apparently very few people have read it or heard about it (including myself) because we were all too busy with the holidays. ...
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