New York-based Restaurant ilili: First Lebanese Restaurant To Receive The 5-Star Diamond Award
This is the first time I heard about that restaurant to be honest as I've never been to New York and the news may be a bit old but it's definitely worth sharing especially that it got featured last week on Kalam Ennas. ilili is apparently Sofia Vergara's favorite NY restaurant ilili, which means "tell me" in colloquial Lebanese, is a Lebanese Restaurant founded and managed by Phillipe Massoud who's also the executive chef. ilili…
Lebanon
Updated: Weird Protest Near Nahr el Mot Bridge
9 years agovia Darine Update (26/04/2016): Expect to see more people with wooden boxes on their heads tomorrow on the Dora Pedestrian Bridge starting 2:00 p.m. Those behind the project released a teaser video today that I’m ...
Art
Stavro’s Brilliant Reply To Saudi Asharq al-Awsat’s Cartoon
9 years agoThis is how we reply to the Saudi cartoon, neither by insulting and disrespecting the Saudi people nor by attacking the newspaper’s offices in Beirut. Thank you Stavro! ...
Lebanon
Maameltein Sex Ring: Victims Recount Horrific Stories of Rape, Abuse & Torture
9 years agoThe Lebanese security forces dismantled yesterday the country’s largest known sex trafficking ring that was operating in Maameltein, a neighborhood in Jounieh also considered as Lebanon’s red-light district. The police freed around 75 Syrian female ...
Humor
Lebanese Dream Of High Speed Internet
9 years agovia @haidcar The above table was being shared yesterday as an April Fools’ joke. I have no idea whether it’s all fabricated or inspired from the 2020 plan announced by the MOT, but what’s sure ...
Critiques
Saudi-Owned Daily Asharq al-Awsat Removed The Disrespectful Lebanon Cartoon
9 years agoCaricature published in the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper “April Fools… the Lebanese state” Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat angered Lebanese after it published a caricature earlier today depicting the Lebanese state as an April Fools’ joke. ...
Beirut
Snapchat’s Beirut Story: AUB, National Anthem, AUB, Ain el Mreisse, National Anthem, Fattit Shrimps
9 years agoSnapchat has been featuring towns and cities as part of the “Life” Snapchat Stories and Beirut got its own Life Snapchat Story yesterday. Life stories are prepared by Snapchat and are basically a compilation of ...
Critiques
Najwa Karam’s Message to All Working Mothers
9 years agovia MBC1 This is not an April Fool’s prank and this is coming from someone who is not married and doesn’t have children. نجوي كرم توجه رسالة لكل امرأة قد تراها بعض النساء صدمة #شط_بحر_الهوى ...
Humor
Apparently I’m a Doctor & Professor At the Lebanese University
9 years agoI got an email yesterday from a Lebanese University student asking me for a recommendation letter. I thought at first the letter was for my brother since it said “Dear Dr” and he’s a doctor ...