How to park for free in Lebanon

I wanted to comment on this article a week ago but I wrote a draft and forgot to publish. Nevertheless, I still insist on posting it because I believe it is a very important and sensitive issue. Imad Atallah from the Daily star wrote an article on how he scanned and photoshopped legal parking stubs from the park meter and replaced them with new expiration dates, without getting caught. This experiment for him proves the…

Tantet el Achrafieh & Gemmayze Streets

You hear a lot of funny stories about tantet el Achrafieh but nothing beats engaging in a discussion with one of them. I was walking back to the office from Gemmayze today and had reached the small road leading to Kahwit Leila when a car with two girls inside was going illegally downards on Road1 . They reached the end of the road and could not go left or right as cars were coming from…
Lebanon

Societe Generale to buy Lebanese Canadian Bank

15 years ago
It seems to me that Riad Salemeh went to the United States and came back with a different opinion, or maybe he didn’t want to cause any crisis due to LCB’s money laundering allegations and ...
Information

Beirut 7th most flirtatious city in the world

15 years ago
According to Badoo the compilers of the world’s largest ever study on online flirting, Beirut ranked 7th in flirtatious behavior online. We beat the likes of Paris, Milan, New York and came in 7th over ...
Lebanon

خميس السكارى or Drinking Thursday

15 years ago
Note: It is originally known as Khamis el Skara, and is a day dedicated the memory of the deceased. Today is “khamees el Sakara” or the Thursday before fasting (for Christians)begins on Monday. I never ...
Automotive

Car Pooling in Lebanon

15 years ago
I’ve started carpooling with an old friend who recently became a colleague of mine and happens to be living near my house. I think it is great as it is very tiring to drive sometimes ...
Information

Lebanon goes 3G

15 years ago
I just read that we’re finally getting 3G in Lebanon. 3G is basically mobile broadband internet only I highly doubt it’s going to be fast and even if it is we will get some ridicules ...
Events

FOLIE ROUGE at Rikkyz

15 years ago
I was checking out some pictures on Beiruting’s fb page of the Lingerie show that took place at Rikkyz in Faqra a week ago. It is me or are the girls posing old and ugly? ...
Lebanon

Christian-Muslim Marriage in Lebanon

15 years ago
I am not sure no one among us has not encountered a situation where one of his friends of relatives is in love with someone from a different religion. This is common and very natural ...
Lebanon

Kuwait is Free

15 years ago
I spotted this key chain in an artisanat shop at City mall. Kuwait has been free for the past 20 years or more if I am not mistaken? ...
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