U.N. Refugees Chief Antonio Guterres Warns Lebanon Could Collapse Under Syrian Refugees Burden

Picture via UNHCR Here's a sum up of what United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: - Lebanon could collapse under the weight of the massive influx of Syrian refugees - Without economic and financial support, and an increased effort to share the burden of Syrian refugees, “Lebanon not the possibility to go on with the present situation. - Twenty-five percent of the Lebanese population today…

Death Penalty For Manal Assi’s Husband

Mohammad al-Nhaily killed his wife Manal after beating her repeatedly with a pressure cooker. Manal was killed in front of her two daughters Tala and Sara. I am still not supportive of the death penalty and I believe he should be sentenced to life and rot in prison. Update: This is just an indictment not the final sentence yet.
Food

Good News From Tripoli! KFC Opens Again ..

11 years ago
Picture from TripoliLebanonNews We haven’t heard good news from Tripoli for a long while now, but today KFC reopened its Tripoli branch after it got burned by demonstrators back in September 2012. I know that’s ...
Information

Who’s Going To Be Lebanon’s Next President?

11 years ago
[YouTube] I like the president-2014 campaign but I want whomever is behind this campaign to do more than just an online vote. They should try to organize debates between various presidential candidates, as well as ...
Food

The Lebanese Labneh Scandal

11 years ago
Joe Maalouf revealed last week during his show “7ki Jeliss” on LBCI that there are traces of Natamycin found in some Labneh products in Lebanon. These findings were based on laboratory test results conducted by ...
Beirut

Life in the Lebanese Capital

11 years ago
Despite everything that’s happening, I don’t think we’re gonna have a war in Lebanon but I keep asking myself how the situation can get any worse from what it is now. A good read by ...
Critiques

Roqayya Monzer A New Victim Of Domestic Violence + Parliament To Discuss Draft-Law On April 3

11 years ago
[YouTube] Roqayya Monzer is yet another victim of domestic violence in Lebanon after her husband shot her dead when she asked him to divorce her. Roqayya was fed up from all the beating and asked ...
Automotive

I Drove A Ferrari!

11 years ago
I loved playing with cars and trucks as a kid but I would never let anyone touch my Ferrari models, not even my brothers. I had a small collection, unlike Billy Karam’s amazing collection, of ...
Art

New Graffiti In Verdun: Prisoners In Our Own Country

11 years ago
Revolt! It’s right next to the “Where’s The Evolution” one I posted about previously. Thanks Rachel! ...
Critiques

Lebanese Teacher Caught On Camera Beating Students

11 years ago
[YouTube] The school in question is the Makassid school in Nabatieh and the teacher got fired and is being sued. He deserves to be in jail for what he’s done! ...
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