Meet The New Garbage Trucks (Replacing Sukleen)

As you've probably noticed by now, there are new garbage trucks roaming our streets instead of the old green Sukleen trucks. The new ones are operated by Ramco and it's written all over them that they're "powered by Euro 5 enhanced eco-friendly engines to reduce air pollution", which I guess is a good thing. While trucks have changed, they are still collecting garbage at the worst possible time. From what I was told, they're not…

Driver with Car Plate Saying “3ala Sale3te Bitbale3te” Fined by the ISF

The ISF shared a picture yesterday of a car with an illegal license plate that says "3ala Sale3te Bitbale3te". The driver will be fined somewhere between 1 million and 3 million liras according to the new traffic law. It's funny because on my way to Kobayat the other day, I spent my time counting the cars with no license plate numbers on the way. Someone should give this guy some credit for putting something up…
Fun

Meen Sara2 el 3amoud?

8 years ago
Someone basically dug out a 20 year old song called “Who stole the pole?” (Meen sara2 el 3amoud) and everyone’s sharing it on Facebook lately and making jokes out of it (I didn’t get the ...
Fun

More than 250 Students Took Part in Azadea Foundation’s 2017 Envirothon

8 years ago
Azadea Foundation has been hosting inter-school Envirothon competition for the past three years to celebrate Earth Day and this year’s competition was in collaboration with The Little Engineer. This year’s theme was “Using technology for ...
Baladi

Baalbeck’s Megalithic Stone Blocks: Ancient Engineering or Aliens?

8 years ago
I spent my Sunday morning reading about Baalbeck’s massive stone blocks and how no one has figured out yet how Romans were able to cut with such precision a 3,000 ton stone, why and how ...
Fun

We’re Having a Lebanese Arm Wrestling Championship on June 18

8 years ago
A Lebanese Arm Wrestling championship, the first of its kind in Lebanon (according to the organizers), will kick off on Sunday June 18th at Sassine Square in Achrafieh. This is not some competition between villages ...
Critiques

Some People Want to Boycott Wassouf’s Concert in Achrafieh Now

8 years ago
So George Wassouf is holding a concert on June 17 at Sassine Square in Achrafieh and a page called “You Like Lebanon? Buy Lebanese (or from the Lebanese)” shared a poll asking people to vote ...
Critiques

Upcoming Concerts & Movies that Could Potentially Get Banned in #Lebanon

8 years ago
So Wonder Woman got banned because the lead actor Gal Gadot is an Israeli and has served in the military. Knowing that the same actress was also starring in three previous movies that were all ...
Critiques

Did Anyone Laugh at The SNL Video on Lebanon’s Sexist Taxi Driver?

8 years ago
Saturday Night Life bil 3arabi has some pretty hilarious videos but that’s definitely not one of them. Put aside how badly it’s portraying Lebanese women, I just didn’t get what’s so funny about it and ...
Art

#SorryIDrowned: A 6-minute Poignant Film by Médecins Sans Frontières

8 years ago
The estimated death toll among migrants in the Mediterranean reached at least 5,000 last year, a new high according to UN agencies. Unfortunately, this is not stopping hundreds of thousands of people, including many from ...
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