The Economist Democracy Index: Lebanon Now Labeled as an “Authoritarian Regime”

More than a third of the world's population is living under authoritarian rule according to the 2021 Economist' Global Democracy Index, and only 21 countries were labeled as full democracies. Pandemic restrictions have damaged democratic freedoms in 2021 and the global democracy index score from 5.37 to a new low of 5.28 out of ten. Lebanon is one of many countries who moved from "Hybrid Regime" to "Authoritarian Regime", which is the worst ranking out…

Xposure To Sponsor Refugee Boy Photographed Reading A Book in The Garbage

Rodrigues Mghames' photo of the 10-year old boy reading in the garbage dump, which went viral on all social media channels, has been featured in this year's XPOSURE International Photography Festival, and the festival has decided in cooperation with The Big Heart Foundation, to sponsor the education of the little boy until he completes high school. Mghames, who is a Lebanese engineer and university professor, spotted Hussein outside his office, spoke to him, published his…
Art

Tony Maalouf’s Contribution To Pfizer’s World Cancer Awareness Month 2022

4 years ago
As part of Pfizer’s #WorldCancerAwarenessMonth2022 campaign, Tony Maalouf (Interior Architect & Kick-ass Illustrator) produced this powerful animation to illustrate how a supporting network can make all the difference in a cancer patient’s life. This support ...
Lebanon

Lebanese Nabu Museum To Return 337 Ancient Artifacts to Iraq

4 years ago
Nabu Museum was inaugurated in 2018, but little did we know that hundreds of its antiquities were actually smuggled from Iraq following the 2003 US invasion and what the years of war and instability that ...
Baladi

Four Lebanese on Forbes MENA’s Most Powerful Business Women

4 years ago
Forbes published this year’s list of MENA’s most influential and successful businesswomen and four Lebanese women made it to the list. The ranking is based on several criteria including accomplishments achieved over the last year, ...
Fun

Lebanese Olympic Team Coach Goes Viral in China

4 years ago
Nino Fenianos, who produces hilarious videos on Insta, is also a coach on the Lebanese Olympic team this year. During the opening ceremony, an altered video of him dancing to a pop song (Tunak Tunak ...
Lebanon

[Updated] Lebanese Athletes at The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

4 years ago
Updates: – Manon Ouaiss crashed out of the Women’s Giant Slalom, she did finished however her two Slalom runs in a very encouraging 46th spot. – Cesar Arnouk is scheduled to take part in the ...
Food

After Wooden & Moulin, Dubai-based Manaesho Joins The Man2oushe Trend

4 years ago
A Lebanese street food shop called Manaesho that sells Manakish in Dubai has decided to sell the Zaatar Man2oushe for LL1,000 only during the month of February, as a reply to the Wooden Bakery ad ...
Baladi

Ziad Abi Chaker: Replacing Stolen Metal Manhole Covers with Eco-Friendly Ones

4 years ago
Lebanon’s economic crisis has led to a spike in the theft of manholes covers, and these thefts are still ongoing despite the numerous arrested by the ISF. The absence of manholes is a hazard for ...
Humor

The Lamest Ad For 2022

4 years ago
The only person that could possibly pull a lamer ad than this one could only be Dr Food. Not only is this guy obnoxious and arrogant, but he also comes up with very lame ads ...
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