2 Movies to be Banned in Lebanon for Promoting Homosexuality & Israeli intelligence

The General Security Censorship Bureau in Lebanon has asked to ban on July 19, 2019 2 new movies in the country. The Minister of Interior and Municipalities Raya Haffar El Hassan has yet to give the final judgment. The first, "Damascus Cover", is a 2017 movie tackling an agent on a mission to smuggle an Israeli scientist working on chemical weapons out of Syria. The second, "Hard Paint", is a 2018 Brazilian film originally named…

Lebanon’s Women Junior Handball Team Qualifies For 2020 World Championship

Despite losing against Japan 23-31 in Group B yesterday, Lebanon's women junior handball team has qualified for the 2020 world championship to be held next July in Romania, based on goal differences with Uzbekistan. This marks the first time the country has reached this stage, after paving its way to the semifinals of the 15th Asian women's junior championship, the 2020 world championship qualification tournament organized for the first time in Lebanon between July 20…
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Lebanon’s Group D matches in the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualification unveiled

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After drawing Bahrain (#112), India (#67) and Iraq (#80) in Group D on June 8, 2019, Lebanon, ranked 53, will start its quest to qualify for the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup on February 21, 2020. ...
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Early-bird tickets available for the 2019 Beirut Marathon until August 1

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You can now register [link] for this year’s Beirut Marathon’s races at special prices. The list of races and the different amounts to be paid have been generated by the organization on July 22, and ...
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“Beyrouth la rayonnante”, a new 43-minute documentary by M6

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French TV stations love to explore countries that speak the same language all around the world, Lebanon being one of them. M6 has unleashed on its TV show 66 minutes on July 14, a new ...
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Lebanon Starts Long Qualifying Journey for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup 2023

5 years ago
Just like in Basketball, Lebanon’s FIFA team has a mountain to climb if they are to reach the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.But first, they have to go through the 2022 World Cup qualification second round, ...
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Lebanon to Have its First Netflix Series “Dollar” on August 8

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A few weeks after controversial Jordanian series “Jinn” made the headlines by becoming the first Arabic series to hit the Netflix platform on June 13, Lebanon strikes with a series of his own, “Dollar”, which ...
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Mashrou’ Leila Under pressure to Cancel Byblos International Festival Gig

5 years ago
A Facebook page by the name of “جُنود الرَّب” (God’s soldiers) has been unleashing since July 17 a series of posts to its 5.5K followers condemning Mashrou’ Leila’s sexual/religious ideologies, performances and lyrics. This comes ...
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Robert Farah of Lebanese descent ranks #1 in tennis men’s doubles

5 years ago
Following his victory in an epic 5-hour Wimbledon final last Saturday alongside his compatriot and countryman Juan Sebastian Cabal over the French pair Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin 6-7, 7-6, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, Robert Farah ...
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Low-cost Irish Airlines Ryanair establishes new Beirut-Cyprus Route starting October

5 years ago
A lot of low-cost airlines have been recently expressing interest in Beirut, to be added to their destinations. The latest of these is Ryanair, the Irish airlines which has been booming during the last few ...
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