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Najib
May 06, 2023 05:57
Lebanese artist Jorj Abou Mhaya has won the 8th Mahmoud Kahil Award under the Graphic Novel Category. The award was created in 2014 and is aimed at promoting comics, editorial cartoons and illustration in the Arab world through the recognition of the rich talent and creative achievement of artists from the region. "Mahmoud Kahil award is part of the Mu’taz & Rada Sawwaf Arabic Comics Initiative an academic body for the study of Arabic Comics…
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Najib
May 06, 2023 05:22
Victor Guillermin, at only 17 years of age, has become the second climber only to ascend Lebanon’s most challenging rock climb: Baatara Gorge, also known as Avaatara. David Lama is the only other climber to have done so back in 2015. The Baatara Gorge Waterfall is one of Lebanon's most popular destinations located 2 hours away from Beirut. It was discovered by French Henri Coiffait in 1952 and was fulled mapped out in the 1980s…
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