What I Told NPR About The Lebanese Sisters Show

The sisters drawn by a designer - via Glamroz It's not everyday that you get interviewed by one of the most popular radios in the US and I thank Alice Fordham for that opportunity, even though I wish it had been for something more interesting. As you all know, there's a new reality TV show called The Sisters being broadcasted on LBC SAT starring three Lebanese sisters, Alice Nadine and Farah. I've heard before about…

Thieves Are Puncturing AUB Students’ Gas Tanks To Steal Fuel

How a punctured fuel tank looks like - Source Finding a parking spot was always a problem back in my AUB years, but I don't recall ever hearing about fuel thefts and I am surprised that these things are happening right outside the campus on AUB's seaside. According to a friend of mine and Outlook AUB's article, fuel thefts began back in September but became more frequent in the past few weeks. Six cars have…
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Lebanon’s Oldest Woman Hajja Maimouna Was Born In 1890 And Could Be The World’s Oldest Woman

10 years ago
This picture was taken by Omar Ibrahim for Reuters and shows Hajja Maimouna (not Mayssaloun) Al-Amin hugging her great-great-great granddaughter in her home on Mother’s Day in Akkar. Maimouna al-Amin was born in 1890 which ...
Lebanon

Howwe Li 3ammar: A Rap Song About Rafik El Hariri

10 years ago
Politics aside, that’s a pretty cool rap song. The band is from Tripoli and the video was uploaded by ex-PM Saad Hariri on his YouTube channel. [YouTube] ...
Architecture

The “Museum of Civilizations” Unveiled: Will We See It In Beirut One Day?

10 years ago
The ‘Museum of Civilizations’ was unveiled yesterday at the Metropolitan Art Society in Achrafieh and the exhibition will go on until April 24 from 11AM till 7PM. As I’ve mentioned before, the project was unveiled ...
Lebanon

3layye wou 3leik: A Platform To Help Implement The New Traffic Law, Stop Wasta & Fix Roads

10 years ago
During one of the Arabnet panels last week, we had the chance to engage with the people behind the ISF and TMC twitter accounts and most of the tweets that I saw seemed to agree ...
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Lebanesetweets.net : Where Lebanese MPs Tweet Boring Stuff (Except Walid Joumblatt)

10 years ago
MP Ali Bazzi retweeting a picture of an Indian woman carrying an Englishman in 1903. Lebanesetweets.net is a pretty cool website set up by my friend Mustapha for indexing and organizing Lebanese tweets done by ...
Automotive

The First Lebanese Car

10 years ago
via RaniaelKhatib I don’t know how accurate this poster is but Lissan Al Hal (in Arabic لسان الحال) was a daily Lebanese newspaper that was established by Khalil Sarkis in the 1870s and is considered ...
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Missing Kid From Marina Dbayyeh’s Mini-Marathon Walked Back To His House In Barja

10 years ago
via BMA A 10 year old kid called Rafic Ahmed Jomaa went missing yesterday around 10:30am during the mini marathon in the La Marina Dbayeh. The Civil Defense and security forces started looking for him ...
Lebanon

Week20: LiveLoveBeirut’s Best Pictures Of The Week

10 years ago
LiveLoveAUB By Ragheb You can follow LiveLoveBeirut on Instagram [Here]. I’m also on Instagram and you can follow me [Here] if you like. Green Beiruti house by Inesbey A cool shot of the partial solar ...
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