Posted By
Najib
Jan 24, 2019 05:45
Lebanon lost yesterday a legendary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema, George Nasser. Nasser was the first director to put Lebanon on the map of global movie-making when his movie "Ila Ayn", which went on to become the first Lebanese film to be picked up for Cannes. His second film, The Small Stranger , was also selected for Cannes in 1962. Nasser's career was cut short by the Lebanese Civil War when…
Posted By
Najib
Jan 23, 2019 08:21
In a recent interview back in October, the Minister of State for Combating corruption said he had done everything he could to fight corruption with the meager resources he has. He claims that he has no money, except his salary, that the ministry has no employees and wonders why an office tasked with fighting corruption given no resources? While it's true that this ministry, and any ministry of state for that sake, doesn't have any…
Business
7 years ago
Mabrouk! We’re three spots away from the lowest ranking awarded by Moody’s. Yesterday, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the Government of Lebanon’s issuer ratings to Caa1 and changed the outlook from negative to stable. Here’s ...
Baladi
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For the second year in a row, we have a Lebanese film nominated for an Oscar. This time, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum was officially nominated for an Oscar under the Best Foreign Language Film category. Labaki ...
Critiques
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It’s a good thing Qatar’s ruler showed up to the Arab Summit held in Beirut, otherwise we wouldn’t have had anything to talk about. And what better way to cover his visit than talk about ...
Fun
7 years ago
I’m honestly having mixed feelings on how to tackle this piece of news. If we look at it from a technology perspective, adding a QR code is a pretty useless feature to have nowadays for ...
Fun
7 years ago
Red Bull Jump & Freeze is back this year and will take place on February 23 in Mzaar. Here’s how you can take part in this fun event! – Build a team of 3 – ...
Fun
7 years ago
Since everyone’s posting about their #10years challenge, I thought I create one for Lebanon and how certain things have changed in the past 10 years. Lebanese Government Formation: 2009: We spent 137 days without a ...
Business
7 years ago
Lebanon’s Central Bank issued a circular yesterday stating that all electronic money transfers from abroad be exclusively paid out in Lebanese pounds, in an attempt to limit the outpour of US dollars. The circular does ...
Lebanon
7 years ago
This is an official statement from the The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) issued today: Abu Dhabi: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) today condemns the pirating of matches of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 by ...
