Posted By
Najib
Oct 19, 2015 10:47
Two Lebanese sites were placed on the 2016 World Monuments Fund Watch List, The iconic Heneine Palace that I posted about two days ago and Dalieh, one of Beirut's last public shores. The list of sites that are most at risk was announced last Thursday by The World Monuments Fund , a New York-based nonprofit preservation organization. The World Monuments Fund is joining the civil campaign to protect Dalieh that was kicked off almost a…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 13, 2015 08:25
via #YouStink FB Page More than 30 civil society activists and protesters were arrested last Thursday following the violent protests, out of which 11 were questioned by The Military Tribunal yesterday for several charges including: assaulting police, vandalizing public and private property and rioting. Six of them were freed yesterday while five remain in prison . Even if some of these charges are valid and some of these protesters did get violent and damaged public…
Critiques
10 years ago
Miss Lebanon contestants were asked this year to choose a cause for which they’d be willing to go down and demonstrate, and shockingly enough, none of us chose women rights. Most of them chose the ...
Critiques
10 years ago
WASP is a movie by Lebanese-Swiss director Philippe Audi-Dor that tells the story of a gay man in a relationship, who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to a woman. The film won Best International Feature and ...
Beirut
10 years ago
Note: I wish to make one thing clear in regards to this post and the protests in general, as I got several replies telling me that I put too much focus on rock throwing and ...
Critiques
10 years ago
A year go, I wrote a post against allowing 3 foreign players instead of two in the Lebanese Basketball teams and I applauded the FLB President Walid Nassar for standing against this decision, hoping that ...
Critiques
10 years ago
Taken from NajwaKaramFB During her radio interview with Rima Njeim, Lebanese Singer Najwa Karam stated that she was a victim of domestic violence but she “deserved it” and thought it “helped her”. I guess that ...
Critiques
10 years ago
Back in August, I got an SMS asking me to donate money in support of the longest Lebanese flag and to go down and sign it on Martyrs Square. The message also stated that the ...
Critiques
10 years ago
This kid is lucky to be alive. Isn’t that in Ain el Mraisse? Where’s the patrol police there to stop them from doing these stupid stunts? Check out the video [here]. ...
Critiques
10 years ago
Another Abou Rakhoussa market took place in Downtown Beirut yesterday, and while I still believe that it’s a diversion from the real problem at hand which is the garbage crisis of course, opening a permanent ...
