Alex Goldberg: First Rabbi to Visit Tripoli in 40 Years

The Grand Mufti of Tripoli had an unusual visitor this week, London Rabbi Alex Goldberg. Rabbi Goldberg is the first rabbi to travel to the city since 1970s but not the first to visit Lebanon. Back in 2012, two Anti-Zionist Rabbis visited the city of Sidon following invitations from pro-Palestinian activists and a couple of years ago from what I heard, a Rabbi attended the private re-opening of Beirut's only synagogue, the Maghen Abraham Synagogue,…

Burj Hammoud Landfill Full, Jdeideh Landfill Nearing Capacity: Back to Square One?

Lebanon has been in a rubbish crisis since 2015 and as expected, the cabinet failed to come up with a long-term plan to solve this issue. Instead they expanded a couple of seaside landfills and started dumping garbage into the water. Four years later , a new crisis is looming and there's nothing the authorities can do to stop it, except set up new landfills or expand existing ones. Why is that? because of instead…
Critiques

Koura Residents Organizing a Protest against Cement Factories on Feb 4

5 years ago
Koura locals are planning a major protest against the cement factories on February 4. This is not the first protest of its kind as they’ve been demanding for years the government to ban cement exports ...
Critiques

Young Syrian Boy Working as “Shoe Cleaner” in Beirut Found Dead

5 years ago
There’s nothing wrong with forbidding beggars or shoe cleaners from roaming the streets in Beirut, but there’s a way to do so especially when the majority of these people are usually kids. Last week, a ...
Lebanon

Capernaum gets prestigious César nomination in France

5 years ago
On January the 23rd, while Capernaum was still freshly celebrating its nomination for the Academy Awards, the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma in France decided for its 44th edition to nominate it for a ...
Health

Hotel Dieu de France becomes a tobacco-free hospital

5 years ago
In a very welcome initiative, Hotel Dieu de France is turning into a tobacco-free hospital starting this January with a new campaign. Smoking was already forbidden inside the hospital but people still smoked on balconies or ...
Critiques

7ara2to Samana: Black Smoke in the skies of Karantina

5 years ago
A 12-meter long art installation representing a flag made of black smoke was placed in Beirut yesterday next to the site of the planned waste incinerator. The flag that was raised symbolizes the black landscape ...
Lebanon

George Nasser, The Tripolitan Pioneer of Lebanese cinema, Dies at Age 91

5 years ago
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”, ...
Lebanon

What is The Minister of State for Combating Corruption Doing To Fight Corruption?

5 years ago
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 ...
Business

Moody’s Downgraded Lebanon’s Credit Rating To Caa1

5 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 ...
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