Posted By
Najib
Nov 21, 2017 05:57
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants announced yesterday unofficially that over 85,000 Lebanese registered online to vote in the upcoming elections. The minister seemed proud about the number but I think it's a very low turnout given that the campaign has been ongoing for over two months now. In fact, if we assume that the Lebanese diaspora is around 8 million and that half of them are eligible to vote, barely 2% of them…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 08, 2017 09:18
Ever since PM Saad Hariri announced his resignation from KSA on Al Arabiya channel, we've all been receiving tons of jokes, memes and videos and while most of the jokes are quite hilarious, the sad fact is that the joke is really on us not on Saad Hariri. I don't want to get into the details of his resignation and whether it was forced or not, not to mention all the conspiracy theories around it,…
Critiques
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Critiques
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