Lebanese Blogosphere Facts & Figures of 2011
- We closed 2010 with a bit more than 420 blogs. But this year, we have 639 blogs! This means +219 blogs have been added during 2011 alone. - 7.3% of blogs are in Arabic. The rest are in English, with few in French. - Many bloggers have been invited to talk on different TV shows about their blogs/causes/initiatives such as Miss Farah, The Cube, Ontornet, Beirut Street Photographers, Beirut Public Space, ... - Bloggers…
Automotive
Car on fire
13 years agoThis is the second time I see a car on fire on the road from Jdeideh to Achrafieh in less than 2 months. Someone caught a good picture of it this time though. It’s quite ...
Information
Crepaway-Mzaar robbed!
13 years agoI heard on the radio this morning that unknown individuals broke into Crepaway-Mzaar and stole 30 million liras (Almost 20,000$). What surprised me when reading this piece of news is that this specific Crepaway branch ...
Events
No to marital rape
13 years agoA march against Lebanon’s backwards rape laws is being organized by Nasawiya on January the 14th at 12pm from the Ministry of Interior in Sanayeh to the Parliament in Downtown. This march comes after the ...
Humor
What does Tirashrash mean?
13 years ago[YouTube] Tirashrash according to this report by Al-Jadeed TV means throwing Dollars and Riyals at women, basically like this Iraqi guy [Here]. Having said that, the song still doesn’t make any sense but it’s a ...
Food
Epiphany sweets
13 years agoAside from the traditional Galette des rois that we have on Epiphany, there’s also “Zlebieh” (زلابية) which is a deep fried dough that is mixed with sugar. They don’t look delicious (see pic below) but ...
Humor
Dabke-Dancing Robots
13 years agoAside from the striking resemblance to Britney Spears’ Toxic Video that Ivy pointed out, I think that’s the first time we see robots dancing Dabke in a music video. What was missing though was Clauda ...