Why Would Anyone Buy A Special Passport Number?

The Lebanese passport is one of the most expensive and least useful in the world, yet for some reason, the General Security has just released special "VIP" passport numbers that will cost you up to LL 1,000,000. I can understand golden mobile numbers and up to a certain extent car plate numbers but why would I pay extra to get a special passport number? Will that special number allow me to enter more countries without…

Lebanese Municipal Elections Candidates That Litter

The municipal elections will probably take place on time in Lebanon this year as promised by Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk. A lot of candidates have already started campaigning and some of them began littering as well. Posters are randomly placed on walls, traffic lights, residential buildings, traffic signs and even on your car. We are in the middle of a garbage crisis, we are trying to push people to reduce waste and recycle and then…
Critiques

Beirut Stinks So Let’s Shine The Traffic Lights First

9 years ago
Garbage smells, mosquitoes invasion, allergies, diseases and then you find this guy cleaning the traffic lights one by one in Down Town Beirut, and the concerned ministries giving us warnings on Twitter. On another note, ...
Critiques

What The Naameh Residents Are Going Through Because Of The Landfill

9 years ago
The garbage crisis is first and foremost a health crisis and Naameh residents are the most affected by this crisis. Residents neighboring the landfill should have been given a financial indemnity as promised and moved ...
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Saudi-Owned Daily Asharq al-Awsat Removed The Disrespectful Lebanon Cartoon

9 years ago
Caricature 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 ago
Snapchat 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 ...
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Najwa Karam’s Message to All Working Mothers

9 years ago
via 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 ...
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Enough With Celebratory Gunfire!

9 years ago
A 5 year old kid was hit and killed by a stray bullet from a funeral gunfire in Beirut’s southern suburbs back in June 2015. Yesterday, Bettina Raidy, an 8 year old girl, was struck ...
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Yet Another Environmental Disaster: Jiyeh Sea Filled With Garbage

9 years ago
The old Lebanese proverb “أعمل منيح وكب بالبحر” should be changed into “يا بهيم حاجي تكب بالبحر”. As if Israel’s deliberate bombardment of fuel tanks in Jiyeh back in 2006 wasn’t enough to pollute the ...
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Beirut’s Raouché Rock Lit Up with Lebanese & Belgian Flags

9 years ago
The Raouché rock in Beirut was lit up with the Lebanese and Belgian flags, in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks that hit Brussels few days ago. Beirut’s Pigeon Rock was also illuminated ...
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