COVID-19 Update: Is Lebanon Flattening The Curve?

Health Minister Hamad Hassan appeared in a video yesterday re-assuring Lebanese that we're close to achieving our goal, which I assume means containing the pandemic and flattening the #COVID19 curve, but did not provide further details or timelines. So is Lebanon flattening the curve or not yet? - As per yesterday's MoPH report, we have 7 new COVID-19 cases, which indicates a drop in the number of daily cases, but these numbers are not very…

Updated: Disney Plus Originals Coming to the Middle East on April 9

Update: Disney+ will roll out to 42 other countries this summer including Lebanon. Here is the list of new countries getting Disney Plus, per The Hollywood Reporter: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab…
Fun

Lebanon Protests Featured in Money Heist Netflix Documentary

5 years ago
Netflix recently released an hour-long documentary Money Heist: The Phenomenon, showing why and how “Money Heist” sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world. Around Minute 6, they’re talking on how jumpsuits and masks from ...
Lebanon

Google’s COVID19 Mobility Reports for Lebanon

5 years ago
There’s been a lot of talks in the past few days about Google’s Coronavirus mobility reports, which are feeding users’ location history to “chart movement trends over time by geography, across different high-level categories of ...
Health

Two Easy DIY No-Sew Approaches To Make Face Masks

5 years ago
Should healthy people wear masks to prevent Coronavirus? Should everyone wear masks? Is a Homemade Mask effective? Which material should we use? Are cloth face coverings recommended? How about cheap paper masks? Bandanas? The truth ...
Health

SPEAK UP COVID: Much-Needed Psychological Support for Health Care Workers

5 years ago
Everyone’s talking about providing health care workers with personal protective equipment, but there’s another crisis that few are tackling, which is how to mitigate or prevent more serious psychological or mental health issues that health ...
Health

AUBMC Launches Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center To Counter COVID19 Outbreak

5 years ago
Early last week, The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) announced that they’re now performing COVID19 tests at their newly established Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center. The PECC is located in Building 56, the ...
Critiques

With BDL’s Latest Circular, We Now Have Four Lebanese Lira Rates

5 years ago
Leave it to the BDL geniuses to figure out new ways to screw us over while pretending to “facilitate” cash withdrawals for people. It took me a couple of hours today to understand the latest ...
Baladi

New Video Emerges of Fairouz Reciting a Prayer

5 years ago
Fairouz appeared yesterday in a YouTube Video sitting in her living room reciting a prayer (asking God to save us). It’s not clear if this is a recent recording related to the COVID19 pandemic or ...
Baladi

“B7ebbak ya Lebnen” – Online Performance by the Lebanese Oriental Orchestra

5 years ago
The COVID19 did not stop the Lebanese Oriental Orchestra from doing what they do best. They connected online, each at his place to perform Fairouz’s “B7ebbak ya Lebnan” and send out a message for everyone ...
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