#AdoptACedar: If We Lose Our Cedar, We lose Our Identity

I honestly don't know if the below is a recent stunt or an old one, but I thought of sharing it to shed light on the Adopt a Cedar campaign and hopefully encourage more people to join in and help plant further native trees in public lands & high mountains. The stunt below was performed during a basketball game where the Austrian National Anthem was played at the start of the game instead of the…

Lebanon’s Debt Increases $21,000 Every Minute

In 2018, Lebanon's national debt increased by $6.6 Billion Dollars, which amounts to almost $12,500 every minute. This year, the debt is expected to increase by $11 Billion Dollars, which means that that it will increase roughly by $21,000 every minute. If we look at January only, the national debt reached $85.32 billion — nearly 150% of the gross domestic product — an increase of $4.93 billion compared to January 2018. The reasons behind this…
Baladi

#Tripoli Volunteers Take The #TrashChallenge but What’s Next?

5 years ago
Unlike other useless challenges, the internet’s newest trend the “Trash Tag Challenge” is encouraging people to protest the environment by cleaning up a place where trash has accumulated, then taking another picture of the spot ...
Information

World Happiness Report 2019: Lebanon Ranked #91 WorldWide, #6 in Arab World

5 years ago
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report is produced by the United Nations ...
Baladi

#BikeToWork on April 17!

5 years ago
On April 17 and for the third year in a row, The Chain Effect is organizing a Bike to Work event under the Patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, with the support of the ...
Automotive

Uber Set to Buy Careem

5 years ago
I heard rumors about this acquisition few months back and it looks like it’s finally happening. According to Bloomberg, Endadget and several other sources, “Uber is set to announce a $3.1 billion cash-and-share deal to ...
Critiques

Facade Collapse: Burj Hammoud – Nabaa

5 years ago
Last Thursday, pictures and videos emerged of an old building’s facade collapsing in Burj Hammoud. Fortunately, the cracks were spotted ahead of time, leaving the municipal police time to evacuate the residents and set up ...
Advertising

Almaza’s Brilliant Mother’s Day Ads 2014-2019

5 years ago
Almaza’s ads have almost always been brilliant for all occasions. This year’s Mother’s Day ad was quite awesome but I tracked down their ads since 2014 and I still prefer the 2017 one more. Which ...
Health

Slighter: The Learning Lighter

5 years ago
There are roughly one billion smokers in the World of which 70% think of quitting, 40% actually try to quit but ultimately only 5% succeed. This is mainly because of two reasons: will power is ...
Health

Mongolian-Lebanese: It’s Time to Tell the Difference

5 years ago
March 21 is celebrated as Mother’s Day in Lebanon but it’s also World Down Syndrome day. For this sake, the Lebanese Down Syndrome Association released a powerful awareness video to shed light on this cause ...
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