Posted By
Najib
Sep 05, 2015 05:19
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar Two days after #YouStink organizers held a sit-in inside the Environment ministry, several Lebanese activists decided to stage an open-ended hunger strike until Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk resigns. At least 10 of them set up tents outside the ministry in DownTown Beirut and were joined later on by others. While I applaud this brave decision, I am not sure if this is the right time to stage a hunger-strike given the circumstances.…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 05, 2015 11:18
Just like art is immortal, some of our politicians are and have been in the same position for ages. Dictators, popes and presidents come and go, empires fall and we still have the same political class in Lebanon. Marie-Josee Rizkallah is hoping that things will change by 2019 and imagined a museum of art and history at the old Mar Mikhail train station where visitors and young Lebanese can learn about the "garbage era" given…
Information
11 years ago
After being closed for almost 25 years, Horsh Beirut is finally re-opening to the public every Saturday from 7 am to 7 pm. The access to the 40,000-sq-metre pine forest was previously forbidden by the ...
Information
11 years ago
Done by Samer B. Saleh The religions are on top, followed by politicians, political security forces and political media, then there’s the wozz, the armed wozz, the businessman, the singer, the mafiozo and the Arab ...
Humor
11 years ago
I have no idea what demonstration etiquette even means, but someone caught MTV talking about it this morning and started the #اتيكيت_التظاهرات hashtag. I just found the video on MTV and the woman is simply ...
Animals & Wildlife
11 years ago
This is disturbing, disgusting and unfreakin-believable! A video is being shared today on Facebook showing two guys encouraging a young kid to push a kitten off a building. You can hear them offering him $10 ...
Lebanon
11 years ago
Photo by Jamal Saidi/Reuters I’m not a big fan of Arab rap music but this track by Bou Nasser El Taffar and Al Raass (بو ناصر الطفّار و الرّاس) is quite something! I’m gonna try ...
Advertising
11 years ago
These posters are part of a 2010 campaign initiated by NGO Bahr Loubnan and depicting Lebanon’s historical sites covered in trash. The ads were meant to raise awareness on the dangers of marine pollution and ...
Lebanon
11 years ago
via Al Jazeera Abdul Halim Attar is a Palestinian-Syrian who fled to Lebanon three years ago with his two children and has been selling pens in the streets of Beirut to make ends meet. Attar ...
Humor
11 years ago
via Maytham If you are still wondering where all this garbage is going nowadays, go to the Beirut River and see what’s happening there. It took us years to get rid of the Karantina garbage ...
