Fatal Road Accidents In Lebanon: Don’t Blame The Roads Only

Picture from Issam Breidy's fatal accident - via LBCI Over 900 people got killed in car accidents in Lebanon last year and the last victim was Lebanese actor and singer Issam Breidy who died on Sunday morning when his car overturned on the Dora bridge. Two other people died during the weekend and tens got injured in various car accidents. I personally didn't know much about Issam but I was saddened by the news just…

One Picture And One Story To Remember The Lebanese Civil War

Tenzakar Wou Ma Ten3ad: Picture by @yasnoor via LiveLoveBeirut Today marks 40 years since the start of the Lebanese Civil war, which officially started on April 13 1975 and ended on October 13 1990. An estimated 120,000 people were killed in the 15-year long war that opposed Christian, Sunnite, Shiite, Druze and secular Lebanese groups as well as Palestinians, Syrians and Israelis. Every year on April 13, we vow to put the civil war behind…
Lebanon

Week23: LiveLoveBeirut’s Best Pictures Of The Week

10 years ago
Maison Rose – By Georgeper You can follow LiveLoveBeirut on Instagram on [Instagram]. I’m also on Instagram and you can follow me [Here] if you like. Putting the sun to sleep – by Hassanhakkani Ain ...
Beirut

On The Issue of Child Beggars In Beirut And What Happened At Dunkin Donuts Hamra

10 years ago
Almost 2 million people have fled Syria to Lebanon since the start of the conflict in 2011, out of which hundreds of thousands of children deprived of education, food and their most basic needs. As ...
Information

Confirmed: Salma Hayek Coming To Beirut For Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Movie Premiere On April 27

10 years ago
I wrote a couple of weeks back that Gebran Khalil Gebran’s The Prophet animated movie is set to be released on August 7 2015 in LA and New York, but I had heard that it ...
Information

Can You Live With 11,000LL for 5 days? Three AUB Students Are Taking The Live Below The Line Challenge

10 years ago
30,000 people from all over the world are taking the “Live Below The Line” challenge by spending £1 (2,200LL) a day for 5 days and attempting to raise over £7 million for the world’s leading ...
Animals & Wildlife

A Happy Story From Zahle This Time

10 years ago
via Annahar When I wrote about the 7 year old child that got killed by a pitbull in Zahle last week, I attacked those who are training dogs for illegal fights and stated that this ...
Animals & Wildlife

Leave Lebanon’s Hyenas Alone!

10 years ago
via LBCI The man showing in the picture above is called Mashhour Ghossen as per Akkar News’s Facebook page and he’s bragging about snatching a baby Hyena from his mother. He was hunting apparently when ...
Events

Are You Man Enough Beirut? Let’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

10 years ago
Any volunteers to teach me how to walk in heels? My awesome Uf Concepts friends are bringing the “Walk A mile In Her Shoes” event to Beirut in an attempt to raise awareness on violence ...
Critiques

What’s Stopping Beirut From Becoming A Tech Hub For The Middle East?

10 years ago
via Executive-Magazine Mike Butcher (Techcrunch) believes that “Beirut is rapidly shaping up to be a powerhouse for startups in the Middle East”, and that “Lebanon is uniquely posed to generate startups which aim both at ...
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