Lebanese Competing At The Rio 2016 Olympics: Names + Full Schedule

There are nine Lebanese athletes competing in seven different sports at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics which kick off on Sunday. Mariana Sahakyan – Table tennis Ray Bassil – Shooting Chirine Njeim – Athletics Ahmad Hazer - Athletics Elias Nacif – Judo Anthony Barbar – Swimming Gabriella Doueihy – Swimming Mona Shaito – Fencing Richard Mourjan – Canoe Slalom Richard Mourjan – The First Lebanese Canoeist to take part in the Olympic Games The youngest…

Beirut Municipality Wants to Ban Dogs On Sidewalks

Photo Credits: Achrafieh2020 Beirut's Municipal Council met on Tuesday and issued a proposal to Beirut's Governor Ziad Chbib to ban dogs, motorbikes and Arguile on all sidewalks on the Corniche Waterfront, as well as in Sassine and Horsh Beirut. They also requested that instructions are given to the municipal police to enforce these procedures "for banners and adverts to be erected informing residents and visitors of the new implemented procedures". I have no idea how…
Baladi

Nocturne In Black By Jimmy Keyrouz Among The 2016 Student Academy Awards Finalists

9 years ago
The official list of Student Academy Awards finalists is out and “Nocturne in Black” by Jimmy Keyrouz from Columbia University is among them. Jimmy Keyrouz is a New York based director and screenwriter. He completed ...
Critiques

There are No Streets Named After Fairouz or Saba7 in Lebanon

9 years ago
An article published on Raseef22 was discussing the lack of streets named after artists in the Arab world and pointed out that there are no streets named after Fairouz in Lebanon, or Saba7 for that ...
Humor

Rola Yammout’s Video Explained

9 years ago
This is hilarious! Thanks Elie! ...
Health

How Badly Polluted is the Litani River?

9 years ago
Polluted Litani River Photo Credits: Gettyimages/JosephEid There are over 150 farms using Litani’s polluted water to irrigate crops even though the Litani is no longer suitable for swimming or irrigation. The high levels of pollution ...
Lebanon

First Pictures of The New Lebanese Biometric Passports

9 years ago
Biometric passports are officially available as of today. Anyone can apply for the new passport and those who wish to replace their old passports can also do so. According to the below FTV report, the ...
Food

Since Five Guys is Not Coming to Lebanon, We Might as Well Open Our Own!

9 years ago
A “Five Guys” burger & fries place just opened recently in Antoura. It even has five little guys underneath its logo. Obviously it’s not the real deal but I am actually tempted to try it ...
Lebanon

The Worst Lebanese Music Video of 2016 (So Far)

9 years ago
Rola Yammout’s video clip is a new low for Lebanese music videos. This is even worse than the Banana song by Zeezee M. [YouTube] ...
Advertising

Lebanese Army Ads [2016]

9 years ago
Protecting Lebanon 24/7. Here’s a roundup of the Lebanese Army Day I found this year. A Happy 71st birthday to our brave soldiers and I hope our kidnapped soldiers will be freed soon. My favorite ...
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