One Horrible Easter Ad
I'm pretty sure there are better ways than this ad to promote healthy eating and ask people to avoid eating Maamoul. I have to admit I did lose appetite looking at it but it's just disgusting!
15 Things I was Doing/Had آخر_مرّة_صارت_الإنتخابات#
The hashtag آخر_مرّة_صارت_الإنتخابات# has been trending since yesterday where people are sharing what they've been doing 8 years ago when we had our last parliamentary elections in Lebanon. The tweets & Facebook posts are quite hilarious and brought back a lot of memories so I thought of checking my Facebook timeline back in 2009/2010 to see what I was up to. 1- I had just bought a new car: a Mercedes C230 Kompressor Sport Edition.…
Critiques
Yet Another Parliament Extension
8 years agoAccording to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index for the year 2016, Lebanon is not even a flawed democracy but a hybrid regime, which means a “nation where consequential irregularities exist in elections regularly preventing ...
Automotive
Live Image Feed from Mecanique – Hadath
8 years agoThe Traffic Management Center announced today that they installed a live cam at the Mecanique center in Hadath that will broadcast pictures almost every 5 minutes on the following [link]. That way, you will be ...
Fun
Global Fire Power 2016 Report: Lebanon Ranked 68th out of 126, KSA Third Worldwide
8 years agoGlobalfirepower published a list featuring countries ranked by their military budgets for the year 2015. The info is not 100% accurate but it pretty much gives you an estimate of where Arab countries stand in ...
Advertising
EDZ Palm Sunday Ad
8 years agoYet another witty and spot-on ad by EDZ on Palm Sunday, reminding us that 24/7 electricity is a big deal and something to be proud of in a country filled with corruption and incompetence. Next ...
Health
Mental Health now Covered in Lebanese Hospitals
8 years agoMental disorders touch 25% of the Lebanese population according to reports and everyone of us is vulnerable to these mental health issues. We’ve seen plenty of awareness campaigns this year in regards to mental illness ...
Critiques
Belly Dancer Censored Because of Angel Wings
8 years agoThe Censorship bureau apparently censored Belly Dancer Elissar’s video clip because she was wearing white angel wings at one point which is disrespectful to religions. The dancer had to edit the video and opt out ...
Fun
No, There’s no Trump Poster on Sassine Square
8 years agoSomeone just sent me a picture of a Trump poster on Sassine Square (Following the attack on the Syrian airbase) which totally looked photoshopped. I pass by Sassine every day and I’m pretty sure there ...
Automotive
An Innovation Solution (That Will Never Happen) To the Jounieh Traffic Jam
8 years agoEvery now and then, we hear about new innovative solutions to Lebanon’s worsening traffic problem, especially between Nahr el Kalb and Jounieh but it keeps getting worse and the solutions proposed eventually die out. The ...