Speeding Radars: chou ya3ne?

I was driving from Jounieh to Beirut on Sunday morning when I was passed by a BMW M3 , a Golf GTI , a Volkswagen Scirocco and a white Porsche GT3. A Picanto was funnily trying to cope with them and almost crashed into another car. I was doing 100 kph so you can imagine how fast they were going. All four cars were racing down the highway doing some crazy maneuvers all the way…

French skier killed by avalance in Lebanon

Beirut - A Frenchman was killed Friday in an avalanche on a skiing trek on Lebanon's highest mountain peak, the Lebanese Army and Red Cross officials said.The man, whose name was not released, was with 10 other skiers, who escaped unharmed. After a four-hour rescue mission, Lebanese Army troops and Red Cross volunteers managed to reach the 10 tourists in the mountainous area of Qornet Sawda in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Army said. The body…
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3 Lebanese Killed in Iraq Plane Crash

14 years ago
Three Lebanese were on board of the private plane that crashed in Iraq yesterday. Their bodies arrived at the Beirut Airport today. The cause of the crash was reportedly bad weather but nothing was officially ...
Critiques

Lebanese and Valet Parking

14 years ago
(Picture taken from inside Le Yen and you can see the parking in front) It is either all Lebanese like to show off or are plain stupid. That’s the only rational conclusion I could come ...
Lebanon

Nadine Labaki in Rsasa Tayche

14 years ago
I am looking forward to watching Nadine Labaki in this new Lebanese movie . Caramel or “Succar Banet” was one of the best Lebanese movies I’ve seen and has earned many awards locally and internationally. ...
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Kunhadi Speeding ad

14 years ago
I never saw this ad by Kunhadi until recently and I loved it! I hope they keep doing such a great job and spread more awareness among Lebanese drivers. ...
Lebanon

Slight modification to a sign

14 years ago
I spotted this sign on Sursock street. It roughly translates to “Street with traditional character” and the addition is “Was a”. That one word makes the sign so much more plausible because walking up and ...
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Lebanon National debt nears 4 trillion LBP

14 years ago
Lebanon’s budget deficit for 2010 slipped slightly by LL57 billion ($38 million) to reach 25.78 percent of spending, or LL4.405 trillion, compared to 25.99 percent, or LL4.462 trillion, in 2009, the Finance Ministry said Thursday. ...
Critiques

Back to Benihana’s lawsuit

14 years ago
As you probably read or heard, Mark who posts here on BlogBaladi and is behind the 248am blog in Kuwait is being sued for sharing his experience at Benihana online and critisizing few things. This ...
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Lebanese don’t care about the environment

14 years ago
Lebanon ranked the last country in the Middle East and North Africa in terms of volume of sustainable investments, according to the International Finance Corporation, the private arm of the World Bank. […] The IFC ...
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