Lila Stories: Your Favorite Childhood Stories Animated & in Arabic

Lila TV is the first ever Lebanese YouTube channel of its kind, founded in 2017 and creating beautifully animated videos of our favorite childhood songs, such as “Tiri Tiri ya 3asfoura”, “3andi Bissi esma Sissi”, “3ammi Bou Massoud”, “Fi 3enna Shajra”, “Yalla N3ammir”, “3eedik ya Mama” and many more. This year, Lila TV founders are introducing Lila stories, featuring traditional fairy tales for kids, classic adaptations of children's stories, educational stories for children and more.…

The Lebanese Burger Mafia – Coming in Spring 2023

Just when I thought I heard all sorts of stories about Lebanese expats, I find out one of the weirdest and most twisted of all: The Burger Baron, the first drive-in chain in Western Canada, dispute. Omar Mouallem, whose father ran High Prairie Alberta's first Burger Baron, wrote a long investigative article in 2013 on the fast food chain that has gone rogue, and released in 2021 a 45-minute film as part of the CBC…
Art

Jorj Abou Mhaya Wins 8th Mahmoud Kahil Award For Graphic Novel

2 years ago
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 ...
Baladi

17-Year Old Victor Guillermin Climbs Lebanon’s Baatara Gorge

2 years ago
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 ...
Fun

Anghami is Introducing AI-Powered Podcasts

2 years ago
With everyone talking about AI in the past months, Anghami took a big leap forward by launching its AI Powered Personalized Podcast, the first of its kind in the world. The leading music and entertainment ...
Lebanon

Remembering Elie Choueiri (1939-2023)

2 years ago
Lebanon lost this week one of its greatest musicians, and one of the last few artists from the Rahbani’s golden era. Elie Choueiri passed away at the age of 84, leaving behind a legacy through ...
Lebanon

Latest Aerial Shots of The New US Embassy Awkar Campus

2 years ago
The new US Embassy campus in Awkar is starting to take shape, as seen from the latest photos shared on the embassy’s FB page following a visit by US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy C. Shea. ...
Art

Poet Ounsi el Hage Honored with a Tile on His Achrafieh Residence

2 years ago
A tile in memory of Poet Ounsi el Hage was placed today on the entrance of the building where he once resided for 55 years. Ounsi’s daughter posted on Facebook about it thanking Ounsi’s friends ...
Alcohol

Wine Windows Trend Lands in Batroun

2 years ago
The first time I heard about wine windows was during COVID as many opened such small service shops to keep social distancing while serving customers. However, the tradition goes back to Florence where people in ...
Lebanon

UC Davis Starts Memorial Fund for Karim Abou Najm

2 years ago
In case you’ve missed this terrible news, a 20-year-old UC Davis Lebanese student was stabbed to death in a city park. Karim Abou Najm was biking home from an academic awards ceremony in Davis when ...
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