How Distracted are We by Social Media & The Internet?

This is a very long article but a very insightful one that I recommend you read. It makes you rethink the world around you and more specifically the online bubble that we are living in. The article is entitled "I Used to Be a Human Being: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too." Here are few excerpts but I…

Google Helping The Clooney Foundation for Justice To Educate Refugee Children in #Lebanon

Georges and Amal Clooney are launching an initiative through "The Clooney Foundation for Justice" to help the 250,000+ refugee children in Lebanon who are not in school. They are getting support from Google, as well as Virgin Unite and The Radcliffe Foundation, to empower this lost generation and they're aiming to enroll 10,000 refugee children by next September and 50,000 more by 2018. The Clooneys are currently working with SABIS and are planning to launch…
Critiques

When Will People Stop Blocking Roads in This Country?

9 years ago
I have yet to find a convincing reason for blocking main roads and highways to protest. Truck drivers were causing a huge traffic today in Dora and Beirut because of their protest and the only ...
Automotive

Few Thoughts on The Upcoming Beirut Grand Prix Event

9 years ago
Several people have been asking me about the upcoming Beirut Grand Prix, and why I haven’t written anything about it yet, especially given that I love cars and auto racing events. Honestly, I’ve been meaning ...
Critiques

Amal Clooney is Taking ISIS to Trial

9 years ago
While the world is still making excuses for not fighting ISIS, and the UN is condemning ISIS in fancy press conferences while awarding contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to criminal regimes as part ...
Critiques

Human Rights Watch Response To Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Over Discriminatory Nationality Law

9 years ago
Human Rights Watch issued a statement to respond to Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil’s controversial tweet on the nationality law and stated that the foreign minister’s remarks “undermine efforts to reform a discriminatory nationality law that ...
Critiques

After The Garbage Pyramid, Snake & River, Meet The Garbage Bridge

9 years ago
I still can’t believe they are stocking up garbage on the unfinished Nahr el Mot bridge. It’s like they are asking to get humiliated by local and foreign media. The worst part is that our ...
Animals & Wildlife

Who’s Killing Dolphins in Tabarja?

9 years ago
APAF (Animals Pride And Freedom) shared pictures of a dead dolphin earlier today and claimed that fishermen in the Tabarja area are killing dolphins and that this is the fifth victim. I read throughout the ...
Critiques

Environment Minister Tangled in a Tweet of Lies

9 years ago
The Environment Ministry is proving once again to be a complete waste of money. Minister Mohammad Machnouk is currently visiting Washington to take part in the “Our Ocean Conference” and was bragging yesterday on how ...
Critiques

Mobile Internet Prices To Decrease By 10 to 20%

9 years ago
Alfa Telecom announced yesterday during a press conference that they will be reducing their internet mobile prices from 10 to 20% and launched two new bundles: Start-Up: $45 that will include 550 minutes of local ...
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