500MB Of Extra Data Consumption Costs As Much As A 10GB 3G/4G Plan In Lebanon

A year ago, I was still subscribed to the 1.5GB 3G mobile data plan but I was exceeding it by some 300-400MB a month. After Minister Boutros Harb approved the new 3G/4G rates my account got upgraded to 5GB but it still wasn't enough for me as I had moved to a new place and I didn't have WIFI so I ended up upgrading it to the 10GB plan which costs $49 monthly. Moreover, my…

It’s Ok For Some Valet Parking Guys To Park Illegally In Beirut

Every time I'm heading from Achrafieh to Beirut Souks, most of the traffic is caused by valet parking guys from Annahar building till we get to the souks. It's either people stopping in the middle of the road to give their cars to the valet, or the valet parallel parking or even double parallel parking the cars. As a result, you have a 3-lane road turned into barely one lane while the cops stand there…
Automotive

Should Lebanese Cops Be Punished More Severely If They Break The Law?

10 years ago
via Yasa Every day, there’s a new picture being shared online of a police or a municipality officer breaking the law. These officers are either not wearing helmets on their bikes, or running a red ...
Critiques

Tweet At #GazaFont To Break The Media Blackout And #UncoverGaza Stories

10 years ago
When sectarian fights were raging in Tripoli and innocent people were getting killed, a lot of people were clueless about what’s happening and who’s fighting who. The sad part was that most local TVs seemed ...
Lebanon

3layye wou 3leik: A Platform To Help Implement The New Traffic Law, Stop Wasta & Fix Roads

10 years ago
During one of the Arabnet panels last week, we had the chance to engage with the people behind the ISF and TMC twitter accounts and most of the tweets that I saw seemed to agree ...
Information

A Reminder That Migrant Domestic Workers Are Mothers Too

10 years ago
We celebrated Mother’s day on March 21 but it also happens to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and on this day, MARCH Lebanon invited us to remember the thousands of ...
Critiques

Lebanese Journalist Joumana Haddad Denied Entrance To Bahrain Because She’s An Atheist

10 years ago
Joumana Haddad is Lebanese journalist, activist, poet, instructor, author and the head of the cultural pages for An Nahar newspaper, as well as the editor-in-chief of Jasad magazine, a controversial Arabic magazine specialized in the ...
Automotive

Lebanon’s New Traffic Law: Everything You Need To Know

10 years ago
I think we all agree that Lebanon needs a new traffic law and I’m glad that the authorities finally managed to draft a new modern traffic law but the question remains whether they will be ...
Beirut

An Empty Nejmeh Square In Beirut Turned Green For St Patrick’s Day

10 years ago
I shared a picture yesterday of Beirut’s Nejmeh Square (Place de l’Etoile) as it turned green to celebrate Ireland’s National Day. The #GoGreen4PatricksDay initiative was organized by the Irish Consulate in Beirut and the Irish ...
Critiques

70-235463: A Legal Hotline By MARCH Lebanon To Fight Internet Censorship

10 years ago
Internet censorship is wrong and a lot of bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users are still being summoned or questioned by the authorities for posts or pictures they either published or shared. In the absence of ...
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