Qahwetna: A Cultural Café Between Jabal Mohsen & Beb el Tebbeneh

Picture via Reem Kaedbey After bringing together last year young men and women from Bab el Tebbeneh & Jabal Mohsen to create and prepare for a comedy play inspired by their lives, and following the resounding success of the play and the documentary that followed, MARCH felt the need to keep up the momentum of this conflict resolution exercise and inaugurated Qahwetna: a cultural café founded on the former fighting line between the two areas,…

Lebanese Goalkeeper Hassan Bittar Suspected Of Match-Fixing by FIFA

The football game between Al-Ahed Beirut and Altyn Astyn from Turkmenistan was flagged as a "suspicious match" in FIFA's anti-corruption system and Al Ahed's goalkeeper is suspected of match-fixing following his horrendous goalkeeping mistake. If you look closely at the video, you will understand why. The goalkeeper seems to be looking away when the ball came to him and even if he didn't do that on purpose, he could have easily reached the ball before…
Critiques

Best Picture Oscar Winning Movie “Spotlight” Banned in Lebanon?

10 years ago
One of the biggest surprises of the Oscars last night was “Spotlight” winning the award for Best Picture. Everyone was expecting the Revenant to clinch the award, after receiving two of the biggest Oscars of ...
Baladi

#Rio2016: Chirine Njeim First Lebanese Olympian Lady to Compete in the Marathon Distance

10 years ago
Chirine Njeim is one of Lebanon’s best alpine skiers and has represented Lebanon at the 2002, 2006 and the 2010 Winter Olympics. This year, she is taking part in the Rio 2016 Marathon race and ...
Critiques

If You Can’t Handle Criticism, Please Don’t Criticize Others

10 years ago
Le destin du Liban est tributaire de celui de la liberte de ses medias. L’existence du Liban est tributaire de sa liberte (Quotes from Gebran Tueni’s garden in Beirut) A lot of Lebanese cannot handle ...
Critiques

Police Certificate Costs At Least 500% More With LibanPost

10 years ago
I needed a police certificate for my wife and I last week so I called LibanPost to see if they can deliver it quickly enough. After several attempts to get someone on the phone, the ...
Humor

Aslan Wen Fi Zbeleh?

10 years ago
This goes to every official who still thinks that the garbage crisis is a fabricated one. Thank u Christelle for the help! ...
Critiques

Lebanese Expats are Being Punished By The Lebanese State, not Saudi Arabia

10 years ago
via AlAraby Saudi Arabia decided to freeze the delivery of nearly $4 billion of grants to Lebanon last week, then it warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon, followed by Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, ...
Humor

Five Ways To Make Use of Beirut’s River Of Trash

10 years ago
1- Open the first bobsleigh track in the Middle East and bid for the Winter Olympics (Thanks Farid) 2- Put the garbage bags on both sides to promote road safety and use them as safety ...
Humor

The Zbelification of Lebanon at New York’s UNDP Conference on Environment

10 years ago
Celebrating The Chinese Year Of The Snake – The Largest Snake-shaped Garbage in the world It looks like our Environment Minister is on his way to New York to take part in the UNDP Conference ...
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