So Long Sayrafa, Hello Bloomberg!

Riad Salameh is gone and so is his shady exchange platform "Sayrafa". Instead, the Council of Ministers has agreed to adopt a new Bloomberg-operated platform for dollar trading, which is expected to reflect the actual and free exchange rate, limit the cash economy and replace the numerous parallel market exchange rates. This is in theory of course, but the truth is that while this platform may provide more transparency, the absence of reforms and the…

Jnoud el Rab Are Ok But Stand-up Comedy is a National Threat

Hundreds of thugs identifying themselves as soldiers of God attacked partygoers at a bar, beating them up, threatening the owner and destroying furniture. How did the security forces respond? They stopped them from entering the bar, helped guests to flee the place but did not arrest any. Meanwhile, Nour Hajjar shared a joke on the Lebanese Army working as Toters, and he's being summoned by the Military Police at their barracks in Rihaniyye. It's quite…
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Ashraf Rifi Has a Problem With Lesbians

1 month ago
Back in 2014, a judge bravely dismissed a case against a transgender woman on the basis that article 534, which prohibits sexual relations that “contradict the laws of nature”, cannot be used against homosexuals. This ...
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Kahaleh Tensions: The Problem is Not Who Took The First Shot

1 month ago
The Kahaleh incident will probably take few days to cool down and no serious investigation will be conducted, as usual, until we get another similar incident, followed by tensions then a cooldown and so on. ...
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7-Year Old Naya Fighting For Her Life After Being Hit By a Stray Bullet

1 month ago
How many times are we going to hear such tragic stories? How many children and innocent civilians have to pay the price of dumbasses firing their guns in the air? The answer is unfortunately not ...
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Pain D’or Issues Statement on the Rainbow Cake Controversy

1 month ago
An old picture showing rainbow cakes sold at Pain D’or resurged online few weeks ago, triggering an Anti-LGBTQ campaign against pastry shops selling rainbow cakes. The campaign even extended to include festivals that were raising ...
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Lebanon Just Cut Cultural Ties with Sweden & Denmark

1 month ago
Lebanon’s Minister of Culture tweeted today that Lebanon will suspend cultural coordination with Denmark and Sweden and their corresponding embassies in Beirut. The decision comes after the Koran burnings that took place in both countries, ...
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Energy Ministry Fined for Refusing To Hand Over Mseilha Dam Documents

1 month ago
Three years ago, I posted about the Mseilha dam asking why wasn’t it completed yet; the Energy Ministry claimed back then works are still underway and that we have to wait till 2021 for the ...
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BDL Vice Governors Plot to Renew Riad Salameh’s Term

2 months ago
BDL Governor Riad Salameh’s term is ending soon but it looks like there’s no other way but to renew for Salameh as Deputy Governor Wassim Mansouri refuses to take over and BDL Vice Governors released ...
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Lebanon Voted AGAINST a UN Resolution To Reveal Fate of Missing or Forcibly Disappeared in Syria.

2 months ago
Our Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib was bragging earlier today that he will abstain from voting in favor of establishing a UN commission to reveal the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared in Syria ...
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