Posted By
Najib
Mar 02, 2022 02:53
The World Monument Fund has decided to place for this year the heritage buildings of Beirut and their surrounding on the 2022 World Monument Watch. This decision comes following the heavy damages that these houses endured from the August 4 Beirut Blast. The WMF estimates that hundreds of historic buildings distributed throughout the neighborhoods of Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhael, and Karantina, as well as Ashrafieh, a prosperous area rising on a hill further south have been…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 11, 2022 04:03
According to the latest report published by Information International, more than 215,000 individuals have immigrated/traveled from Lebanon between 2017 and 2021, including 79,134 last year alone. The statistics are based on on data provided by the General Security. Lebanon has been witnessing an alarming rise in the rates of emigration since 2019 and I believe the numbers are relatively low and misleading, because the processing time for immigration requests is taking forever and there are…
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Elections2022
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Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi signed a decree earlier today inviting the electoral bodies to elect members of the Parliament on Sunday May 15th 2022. This date will be for those residing in Lebanon while expats ...
