Beirut’s Imaginary New Fire-Station

Picture from Al-Akhbar Isn't it ironic how all this information is available to the public and no one can do anything about it? Firefighters in Lebanon need substantial financial support to do their jobs properly and better salaries for a decent standard of living. That's not too much to ask for individuals who are putting their life at risk to extinguish fires and save lives. On 9 October 2001, the Municipal Council of the City…

When Hunger strikes …

I was picking up some Manakish from Furn Beaino yesterday around noon when a middle-aged man walks in and asks the owner if someone came and ordered 4 Zaatar, 4 Lahm Baajine and 4 Jebneh in the past hour. The owner answers him back that no one had placed such an order today. As it appears, the guy, who's a Syrian refugee in Lebanon, had sent his two young kids to get Manakish an hour…
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Climb 4 Hope for The Nawaya Network

13 years ago
The five climbers are: Tarek Kabrit Ziad Shaaban Ayman Chalhoub Ali Shahrour Hussam Ziadeh On the 19th of August 2012, 5 climbers from Lebanon and Jordan will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in an attempt to reach ...
Critiques

Arab tourists fleeing Lebanon during Eid al-Fitr

13 years ago
Beirut Souks (Picture taken yesterday around 9pm) The few Arab tourists we had left for the summer fled or were evacuated by their embassies in the past few days due to the recent unfortunate events, ...
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Australian-Lebanese Jessica Kahawaty second runner-up in Miss World 2012

13 years ago
Miss China was crowded Miss World 2012 with the first runner up being Miss Wales. Jessica Kahawaty won third spot. She is an Australian law student of Lebanese origin. According to LBC, Jessica had participated ...
Lebanon

Eid Mubarak!

13 years ago
Picture by Khaled ...
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Beirut is more than boobs and Botox

13 years ago
David J Constable, author of “Boobs, Botox and the Babes of Beirut“ BeirutBeats wrote a nice response to David Constable and his cheap article on Lebanon and its women. Read it all [Here]. So summer ...
Humor

Why Lebanese municipalities should have more power…

13 years ago
Notice how they placed the garbage around the sign. ...
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Who is Lebanon’s hottest MP?

13 years ago
Strida Geagea, wife of LF leader Samir Geagea Ivy asks who’s Lebanon’s hottest Member of Parliament and lists the potential candidates. The only competition Strida Geagea has is Nayla Tueni in my opinion. Check out ...
Humor

Meet the Mokdad family

13 years ago
[YouTube] Fight starts at Minute 6 They have a military wing, go around kidnapping random people to retaliate against the kidnapping of one of their own, invite the media to a Press Release and brag ...
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