Posted By
Najib
Nov 02, 2023 04:28
Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, issued a statement yesterday announcing the beginning of the very first Lebanese Heritage Month, "a time to recognize and honour the contributions of Lebanese Canadians to the country we proudly call home". Earlier in July 2023, Canada's parliament unanimously approved naming November as Lebanese Heritage Month and this year throughout Canada, November will be known as such. Here's the full statement by PM Justin Trudeau: “Since the 1800s, when the…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 02, 2023 04:18
Few months back, I was posting about the gold medal awarded for Darmmess, an olive oil proudly produced in the village of Deir Mimas located South of Lebanon. Today, the olive oil harvest in Der Mimas and other towns is in danger because of Israeli shelling that has burned so far over 40,000 olive trees and torched hundreds of square km of land. According to the Agriculture Ministry, more than 100 fires in 60 different…
Lebanon
1 year ago
It was announced last year that Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet constellation, will launch in Lebanon and I read some people might already be using it and even procuring equipment via Cyprus, but this is ...
Food
1 year ago
One of Lebanon’s finest restaurants has recently opened a luxurious branch at Dubai Mall. Babel, which was previously at La Mer Dubai has relocated and opened on Dubai Mall’s Fashion Avenue. The new location is ...
Baladi
1 year ago
Teaching kids the Arabic Language can be quite challenging nowadays, especially when everything around us is in English or French. This is true for locals and even more for expats whose children don’t even get ...
Humor
1 year ago
After being targeted for promoting LGBT rights through rainbow cakes by a bunch of bigoted ignorants, Pain D’or released a rather disappointing statement and has recently decided to replace its rainbow cakes with sunset cakes. ...
Lebanon
1 year ago
Imagine being the country’s fastest female sprinter and one of its most celebrated athletes, and being interrogated at the airport by a security officer and questioned over the validity of your Lebanese passport. That’s what ...
Lebanon
1 year ago
According to a study by Information International, a Beirut-based independent regional research & consultancy firm, stray bullet shootings kill 8 people and injure 15 yearly in Lebanon. The numbers are based on data acquired from ...
Lebanon
1 year ago
LBC, MTV, Al Jadeed, Annahar, Nidaa Al Watan, L’Orient Lejour, Raseef22, Daraj, the Legal Agenda and other leading newspapers & media outlets in Lebanon issued a powerful joint statement yesterday condemning the “hate speech and ...
Movies & Television
1 year ago
Apple TV released today a series on Carlos Ghosn entitled “Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn”. The four-episode series tells the tale of the Brazilian-French-Lebanese businessman and how he managed to escape from Japan by ...
