Why Are We Still Playing The Christmas Macarena Song In Lebanon?

Los Del Rio's Macarena song is almost 20 years old, yet the Christmas Macarena remix is still played every year at every mall, shop, restaurant in Lebanon. We no longer have cassettes or even CDs, yet this 15-year old song still makes it to every Christmas playlist in the country. I know there are other songs that get played every year, but George Michael's "Last Christmas" is a Christmas song and not a remix of…

Best of Sakker el Dekkene 2014

Sakker el Dekkene initiative was kicked off in May 2014 and the team behind it has been doing a great job fighting corruption in Lebanon and collecting statistics and reports. Ten days ago, Sakker el Dekkene held its first elections and Rabih El Chaer, Consultant in Public Policy and Civil Society Activist, was elected President, Carole Al Sharabati, Director of the Political Science Institute at Saint Joseph University , was named Sakker el Dekkene’s Vice…
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LBCI Surprises Lebanese Passengers With A WestJet “Christmas Miracle” Inspired Stunt

11 years ago
[YouTube] I love the initiative and it’s a pretty cool Christmas stung from LBCI and 7kijelis but it’s not a new idea really as Westjet did almost the same thing last year with its real-time ...
Humor

Made In Lebanon Mukagraf Christmas & NYE Cards

11 years ago
Muriel Moukawem is still coming up with awesome “Lebanonized” greeting cards. Check out these two that I picked up the other day from a small gift shop in Gemmayze. I usually buy them from Megastore ...
Lebanon

LiveLoveBeirut & JoueClubLiban Distributing Gifts To Poor Children This Christmas

11 years ago
After I posted the above picture on my Instagram and it got shared by LiveLoveBeirut and went viral, JoueClub teamed up with the LiveLoveBeirut guys and launched the #welivelove campaign whereas every child in need ...
Automotive

Santa Arrested In Dbayyeh and Jdeideh

11 years ago
via LebISF I believed the news for a second but it turned out to be a stunt from the Lebanese ISF on Twitter. Santa was helping the officers in their road safety awareness campaign. ...
Critiques

Should We Complain About Traffic During Christmas?

11 years ago
Via Dan Khoueiry Two days ago, I left Beirut around 5pm and got stuck for 45 minutes between Saifi and the Touch building in Karantina. I thought at first it was just traffic but cars ...
Events

Music 4 Sara El Khatib – The Coldplay Covers Edition

11 years ago
Sara el Khatib may have lost her fight with cancer but she remains an inspiration to many specially after her brave Tedxtalk. Sara is still inspiring many and a group of artists are organizing a ...
Beirut

After Restaurants, Supermarkets And Slaughterhouses, Beirut Airport’s Food Storage is Rotten

11 years ago
Health Minister Bou Faour decided to close the food and medicine storage warehouses at Beirut’s airport due to the scary, horrible and unacceptable conditions there. Dirty floors, unsafe storage of the good and expired products ...
Automotive

I Can’t Pay My Mecanique Because I Have Invisible Fines

11 years ago
I went down to the bank to pay my mecanique fees today but the teller told me that there are fines that I have to go check at the Nef3a and pay first . I ...
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