Posted By
Najib
Mar 02, 2022 02:53
The World Monument Fund has decided to place for this year the heritage buildings of Beirut and their surrounding on the 2022 World Monument Watch. This decision comes following the heavy damages that these houses endured from the August 4 Beirut Blast. The WMF estimates that hundreds of historic buildings distributed throughout the neighborhoods of Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhael, and Karantina, as well as Ashrafieh, a prosperous area rising on a hill further south have been…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 12, 2022 05:38
Earlier in December, SMEX as well as several online activists raised doubts regarding the security measures taken to protect the data being captured on the Health Ministry's MOPH Pass platform. As it appears, the platform which wasn't even secured when launched was seriously compromised and data got leaked/retrieved including the passport data of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterred when he visited Lebanon back in mid-December. No one knows how much data got leaked, but this platform…
Information
2 years ago
According to the latest report published by Information International, more than 215,000 individuals have immigrated/traveled from Lebanon between 2017 and 2021, including 79,134 last year alone. The statistics are based on on data provided by ...
Lebanon
2 years ago
More than a third of the world’s population is living under authoritarian rule according to the 2021 Economist’ Global Democracy Index, and only 21 countries were labeled as full democracies. Pandemic restrictions have damaged democratic ...
Art
2 years ago
As part of Pfizer’s #WorldCancerAwarenessMonth2022 campaign, Tony Maalouf (Interior Architect & Kick-ass Illustrator) produced this powerful animation to illustrate how a supporting network can make all the difference in a cancer patient’s life. This support ...
Lebanon
2 years ago
Nabu Museum was inaugurated in 2018, but little did we know that hundreds of its antiquities were actually smuggled from Iraq following the 2003 US invasion and what the years of war and instability that ...
Baladi
2 years ago
Forbes published this year’s list of MENA’s most influential and successful businesswomen and four Lebanese women made it to the list. The ranking is based on several criteria including accomplishments achieved over the last year, ...
Lebanon
2 years ago
Updates: – Manon Ouaiss crashed out of the Women’s Giant Slalom, she did finished however her two Slalom runs in a very encouraging 46th spot. – Cesar Arnouk is scheduled to take part in the ...
Baladi
2 years ago
Lebanon’s economic crisis has led to a spike in the theft of manholes covers, and these thefts are still ongoing despite the numerous arrested by the ISF. The absence of manholes is a hazard for ...
Humor
2 years ago
The only person that could possibly pull a lamer ad than this one could only be Dr Food. Not only is this guy obnoxious and arrogant, but he also comes up with very lame ads ...
