Lebanesetweets.net : Where Lebanese MPs Tweet Boring Stuff (Except Walid Joumblatt)

MP Ali Bazzi retweeting a picture of an Indian woman carrying an Englishman in 1903. Lebanesetweets.net is a pretty cool website set up by my friend Mustapha for indexing and organizing Lebanese tweets done by Lebanon's Members of parliaments. You can filter out "MP Tweets" by district, sect and party. It's a nice idea but our MPs tweet mostly boring stuff, except for Joumblatt maybe. I expect to see journalists, celebrities, bloggers, famous Lebanese tweeps…

Missing Kid From Marina Dbayyeh’s Mini-Marathon Walked Back To His House In Barja

via BMA A 10 year old kid called Rafic Ahmed Jomaa went missing yesterday around 10:30am during the mini marathon in the La Marina Dbayeh. The Civil Defense and security forces started looking for him only to find out that he walked all the way back to his house in Barja! The child was interviewed by MTV where he confirmed he walked all the way back home. He was visited later on by May El-Khalil,…
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A Reminder That Migrant Domestic Workers Are Mothers Too

10 years ago
We celebrated Mother’s day on March 21 but it also happens to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and on this day, MARCH Lebanon invited us to remember the thousands of ...
Health

Radioactive Sanitary Towels Seized At The Beirut Airport

10 years ago
That’s just crazy stuff! More than half a ton of sanitary towels containing a radioactive substance were seized today at the Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport. The pads confiscated were all Chinese-made and delivered to Lebanon ...
Critiques

Lebanese Journalist Joumana Haddad Denied Entrance To Bahrain Because She’s An Atheist

10 years ago
Joumana Haddad is Lebanese journalist, activist, poet, instructor, author and the head of the cultural pages for An Nahar newspaper, as well as the editor-in-chief of Jasad magazine, a controversial Arabic magazine specialized in the ...
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An Old Martyrs Square Monument That Was Removed In 1950s

10 years ago
Update (19 March 2015):: Here’s a small french text I found about the monument “Le groupe en bronze sculpté par un italien du nom de Mazzucati a pris la place du monument en pierre de ...
Critiques

70-235463: A Legal Hotline By MARCH Lebanon To Fight Internet Censorship

10 years ago
Internet censorship is wrong and a lot of bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users are still being summoned or questioned by the authorities for posts or pictures they either published or shared. In the absence of ...
Beirut

AUB Student Found Dead Near Hamra Hotel

10 years ago
Investigators are examining the area where she was found and a construction site behind Midtown for clues. A 21 year old student called Nicole Assaf was unfortunately found dead in an empty lot in Hamra ...
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Rima Karaki Silencing An Islamist Scholar Has Gone Viral Worldwide

10 years ago
It feels great when a story like this one becomes a global sensation and is picked up by Time, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Independent and others. Rima’s interview with the London-based Sheikh has been ...
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Rima Karaki Silences London-Based Islamist Sheikh After He Asked Her To Shut Up

10 years ago
A London-based Islamist and a friend of Ayman el Zawahiri didn’t like the fact that Lebanese TV host Rima Karaki asked him politely to stick to the topic of discussion, so he asked her to ...
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