Caroline Hayek (L’Orient-Le Jour) Nominated For The Prestigious Albert Londres Prize

The Albert Londres association has unveiled the list of articles, films and books pre-selected for the 2021 edition, and Caroline Hayek from L’Orient-Le Jour is among the candidates nominated for the best written report of the year. For those who are not familiar with the ceremony, The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. It is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Caroline was…

Hunting is in Major Decline Due to Economic Crisis

Lebanon's New Minister Of Environment Nasser Yassin has declared that he won't be opening the hunting season this year, but the season was already declared dead since early September due to the economic crisis. There are no official numbers to back this statement but L'Orient Le Jour published an article interview owners of hunting shops who admitted they were enormous losses this season. In fact, the prices of ammunition as well shotguns and equipment have…
Health

Difficulties Deaf People Face Every Day in Lebanon

4 years ago
September 23 is the The International Day of Sign Languages and this year’s theme is “We Sign For Human Rights,” highlighting how each of us – deaf and hearing people around the world – can ...
Critiques

New Labor Minister Moustafa Bayram Wants us to Work in Qatar

4 years ago
Our new labor minister’s idea of tackling Lebanon’s surging unemployment rate is twofold: – Launch an application that links the labor market with workers, which is useless and a waste of time given that the ...
Information

Archaeologists Unearth Two Mass Graves of Slaughtered Crusaders in Sidon

4 years ago
The chipped and charred bones of at least 25 young men and teenage boys were found inside the dry moat of the ruins of St. Louis Castle in Sidon, according to an article by livescience. ...
Business

Lebanon’s Annual Inflation Rate is The World’s Highest

4 years ago
Remember how everyone was dismissing the Venezuela scenario a year ago? Well we officially surpassed Venezuela as having the highest annual inflation rate worldwide, but we’re still third overall in terms of inflation rate increase. ...
Lebanon

20 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate Seized in The Bekaa

4 years ago
Security forces raided today a warehouse in the eastern Bekaa Valley, considered a hub for smuggling operations between Lebanon and Syria, and seized 20 tons of ammonium nitrate stored inside a truck. The chemical is ...
Information

Lebanese Cabinet Names For The Past 20 Years

4 years ago
Looking back at Lebanon’s governments since 2005, they all had redundant and cliché names and the latest government is no different. The latest cabinet’s name was declared as “Together to the Rescue” (″معا للانقاذ″), a ...
Critiques

Presidential Palace Has No Right To Ban Reporters

4 years ago
Al Jadeed reporter Layal Saad was denied entrance to the Presidential Palace’s press office last week because of a previous incident that took place months ago where Saad referred to the president as ‘Aoun’ and ...
Information

How Much Money Did Your Municipality Receive Since 1993?

4 years ago
The Gherbal Initiative launched an interactive page showing all the amounts transferred from the revenues of the Municipal Fund to all municipalities since 1993 (paid in 1996) until 2017 (paid in 2019). Here are some ...
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