Lebanese Savvy Sisters Bringing Middle Eastern Chain Restaurant Semson To New York

Christine Assouad Sfeir and Carine Assouad are launching next year Semsom's first outlet in New York City at 2 Astor Pl. This is their first venture in the US and will consist of a 1,256 square-foot space that will seat around 25 people. The plan is to open four more outlets in New York in 2015 and have around 200 locations across the US by 2020. This is a very ambitious plan but Christine is…

Dhour Choueir Celebrating Christmas

Bringing Muslims to sing inside a Church or vice versa is probably the cheesiest thing to do but it works every time in Lebanon. I have nothing against it of course and I appreciate such initiatives as it brings people from different backgrounds together but I think the Lebanese people should be the one teaching our Muslim and Christian representatives how to work and co-exist together. Muslims singing Christmas songs or Christians singing Muslim chants…
Lebanon

What’s The Story Behind The Pie?

11 years ago
I spotted this cool pie in a random place on the street in Beirut. Does anyone know why it’s there or what’s the story behind it? ...
Critiques

Congratulations Jounieh (Beirut?) , You Are One of The #New7Wonders Cities

11 years ago
via New7wonders I wish I knew the person who decided that this picture of Saint Paul’s Cathedral overlooking the Jounieh Bay refers to Beirut. Every time Beirut wins an award or is included in some ...
Events

Maz Jobrani Back to Lebanon For One Night Only On December 14th

11 years ago
Maz Jobrani, one of the founding members of the Axis of Evil Comedy, is coming back to Lebanon to support Sanad Hospice Care yet another time. He will hold one fundraising event on December 14th ...
Beirut

Beirut As Seen From The International Space Station

11 years ago
Our friend Mahmoud Ghazayel emailed the ISS asking them to send him the latest image they took of Beirut from above and this is what he got. Click [Here] for the larger image. ...
Food

Recettes de Vie: A Unique And 100% Charity Cook Book

11 years ago
Maissa Abou Adal Ghanem & Ghia Khayat Hawari launched a month ago the second edition of “Recettes de vie”, a cook book with more 200 delicious recipes collected from chefs all over the world, and ...
Information

Five Lebanese Among The World’s Richest Arabs In 2014

11 years ago
Arabian Business released their 2014 list of the world’s richest Arabs and five Lebanese made the top 50 list just like last year. Here are the names of the richest Lebanese in the Arab world ...
Automotive

What’s That Car?

11 years ago
Maybe I should be asking what that car was before it got turned into this ugly thing. via LBCI ...
Information

Byblos Christmas Decoration

11 years ago
Check out this 360 degree shot of this year’s Byblos Christmas decoration as taken by Elie Chiha. Just like every year, it’s one of the most impressive and most beautiful Christmas decoration in Lebanon. I ...
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