Kid Swimming In The Flooded Streets Of Beirut
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Byblos To Join The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Network
Picture taken by myself: @LeNajib By joining this network, The city of Byblos will receive the below: 1- Membership in a new network. 100 Resilient Cities is creating the 100 Resilient Cities Network, which will provide support to member cities, share new knowledge and resilience best practices and foster new connections and partnerships. 2- Support to hire or fund a Chief Resilience Officer . The creation of this innovative new role will help ensure resilience…
Art
Own a Picasso For 100 Euros And Save An Ancient Lebanese city
12 years agoPablo Picasso’s grandson is selling 50,000 raffle tickets at 100 Euros each for a chance to to win “The Man with the Opera Hat,” a cubist work nearly 100 years old. The reason why he’s ...
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In Pictures: Few Rains Cause Floods And Traffic Jams All Over Lebanon
12 years agoVia WeAreLebanon It rained for one day and all hell broke loose. The worst part is that there’s an upcoming storm next week that’s 10 or 20 times worse than what we witnessed today. Picture ...
Health
What Can Arguileh (Hookah) Do To Your Health?
12 years ago[YouTube] Earlier in November, Lebanese scientists have joined with a host of officials and researchers in the region in declaring nargileh smoking a “global epidemic”. [Source] I think we all agree that smoking is bad ...
Humor
New Signs To Be Deployed in Tripoli
12 years agoVia @MhdDankar The heads of the armed groups in Tripoli (Aka قادة المحاور) held a meeting earlier this morning and agreed to install new signs across Tripoli to keep civilians away from the dangerous zones. ...
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TransFocus: Lebanon’s First Transgender Festival
12 years agoPicture from NowLebanon According to the Lebanese Law now, you are either male or female. TransFocus is the first festival in Lebanon that explores the sub-culture, the challenges, and the hopes of the transgender community ...
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Origins of the Lebanese Dabké
12 years agoPicture from Kadmous Here’s a nice post by Kadmous.org on the similarities between the traditional Lebanese Dabké and old Phoenician Dance rituals based on Sir Gardener Wilkison’s studies on The Historic Illustrations of Dancing from ...
Critiques
Open Letter From Lebanese Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud To British Ambassador Tom Fletcher
12 years agoDrawing By Sareen It seems Karl wasn’t the only one who replied back to British Ambassador Tom Fletcher’s Open Letter to Lebanon as Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud posted a letter on his Facebook Page after ...
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Time Out Beirut’s Best Of 2013: Vote For BlogBaladi
12 years agoBlogBaladi.com was proudly nominated in the Time Out Beirut Best Of Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 under the category “Best Online Resource About Everything Beirut”. If you wish to vote for BlogBaladi: 1- Go to: www.timeoutbeirut.com/bestofbeirut2013 ...