Meet 24-year-old Paul Salameh, The Lebanese developer behind the world’s #1 mobile kids game, Pou

That's quite an amazing story. I had no clue a Lebanese was behind Pou. When Yahoo! paid 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio $30 million for news summary app Summly, one of our Wamda contributors wrote us, “I’m looking forward to the day when somebody on Wamda writes the Arab version of this story.” The story of Lebanese developer Paul Salameh is almost that story. He might not be a teenager and his app might not influence the…

New Electoral Law proposed

Once you are done explaining the above equation, I would appreciate if you could help me understand the new hybrid electoral law proposed. The good thing is that we are done with this archaic hazardous Orthodox Law and The Onion won't be suing us after all.
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FAIL: No Merci for Weman

12 years ago
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The Beirut Report’s story featured on LBCI

12 years ago
[YouTube] I believe you’ve all heard by now the story of the blogger who got assaulted for taking pictures of ruins at District S’s construction site in DownTown Beirut. Well the story made it to ...
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Convicted terrorist deported to Lebanon after 26 years

12 years ago
Picture taken from CTVNews A convicted Palestinian terrorist named Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, who once hijacked an airliner in Greece has been deported from Canada 26 years after he first arrived there. Though he is ...
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Mansourieh joins list of municipalities imposing illegal curfews in Lebanon

12 years ago
[High-Res] via @NadimHoury I wonder what they meant by “for their own safety”. ...
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First 4G Speedtest Results

12 years ago
I just activated my 4G dongle and here are the results of the SpeedTests I did. Coverage is still restricted to few areas in Beirut so Update: As requested by Razor, here are two speedtest ...
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Alfa Launches 4G network in Lebanon

12 years ago
Prices proposed by Alfa: Is it me or are the new packages really expensive? Alfa just launched the 4G officially and here are few details shared by Abir and from Alfa. Alfa is the 6th ...
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Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth

12 years ago
You can zoom in to any spot on the planet and watch the same three-decade timelapse unroll. Try it [Here]. Since the 1970s, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been amassing satellite images of ...
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Lebanese people do not queue

12 years ago
(Photo courtesy of Joumana Haddad) I always enjoy reading Joumana Haddad‘s articles. This one’s hilarious yet so true. Lebanese people do not queue. This aversion to waiting patiently for their turn in anything, at any ...
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