Posted By
Najib
Dec 14, 2021 04:10
Toufiluk, a Lebanese comedian and influencer, was arrested today as soon as he landed in Beirut's airport and his passport was confiscated. The reason? Insulting the Lebanese Presidency. Toufiluk, whose real name is Toufic Breidy, has to show up at the General Security office for interrogation in the next 72 hours. Yes, it's illegal to insult the Lebanese presidency by law, yet this law is archaic and is being used arbitrarily to intimidate and silence…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 05, 2021 03:19
The Lebanese Tourism Minister unveiled yesterday a new slogan to secure tourists back into visiting Lebanon. The slogan translates into "I love you in your madness" or "Crazy Love" and Minister Nassar wants it to be the new touristic identity that the world will see. The minister told Reuters and I quote: "We are extreme in everything. "In love, in hate, in patriotism", which may have been true at some point in time, but the…
Critiques
4 years ago
The Lebanese parliament agreed to cancel the unjust 6 diaspora seats and set an earlier date for the 2022 elections on the 27th of March, instead of holding them during May. However, the president has ...
Critiques
4 years ago
What’s stopping the Lebanese authorities from calling Beirut an arms-free city? What’s the purpose of having so many heavily armed groups and individual in the capital? Why can’t we let Lebanese live peacefully and end ...
Critiques
4 years ago
The new minister of Telecommunication Johnny Corm suggested today during a TV interview that he’s considering selling user data to private companies in order to increase the ministry’s revenues. When asked if this data will ...
Critiques
4 years ago
I am still trying to understand the rationale behind the intense smear campaign against Judge Bitar, the Lebanese judge in charge of the probe into the August 2020 Beirut port blast. Did he break any ...
Critiques
4 years ago
First, yes we have a golf club in Lebanon and it’s very well preserved surprisingly enough. The Golf Club of Lebanon (GCL) was established in 1923 and is the oldest and largest golf club in ...
Critiques
4 years ago
The Lebanese parliament could not be bothered today to allocate more than two minutes to discuss a women’s quota in the upcoming 2022 elections. The proposal to amend Article 2 of the electoral law which ...
Animals & Wildlife
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Lebanon’s New Minister Of Environment Nasser Yassin has declared that he won’t be opening the hunting season this year, but the season was already declared dead since early September due to the economic crisis. There ...
BeirutBlast
4 years ago
If we look back at what happened during the last week: – Hezbollah high-ranking official Wafik Safa issued a threat to Judge Tarek Bitar, who’s investigating last year’s Beirut port, through an unnamed intermediary who ...
