Lebanon tops Drinking Countries in the Arab world

According to this LBCI report, and based on a study by the Economist, Lebanon has the highest alcohol consumption per person in the Arab world with 2.23 liters per year. That's good news but old news as I remember reading about those stats two years ago. I tried looking for an updated report but couldn't find any except this old one where you find the 2.23 liters.

Another version of the Arssal/Erssal incident

Source I am not really interested in the reactions we hear about this incident, but more than about the stories being circulated every couple of days. None of the them add up to be honest and all fail to indicate who are the other kills and the names of the injured soldiers. I hope a clear and honest investigation will take place to clarify why things went wrong and why two army men got killed.…
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Pro-civil marriage demontration in Downtown Beirut

13 years ago
Source Barely 100 made it to the demonstration planned yesterday at Martyrs’ square in support of civil marriage legislation. I didn’t even hear about it until today to be honest, and I would recommend we ...
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Who’s blocking roads in Lebanon?

13 years ago
[High-Res] via KarlRemarks I got stuck for more than 3 hours yesterday in traffic due to protesters blocking roads in solidarity with the army. I tried to find a convincing reason for which people might ...
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How to legitimize civil marriage in Lebanon

13 years ago
Source Three key events have helped put the civil marriage topic back on the table in the past few weeks in Lebanon: Kholoud & Nidal’s attempt to register a civil marriage, President Michel Sleiman’s stances ...
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Lebanese gets away with a $17,000 fine for killing his wife

13 years ago
Picture via expressjr.files A 62 year old Lebanese accused of stabbing his wife to death got his sentence reduced from 15 years in prison to paying a fee of 25 Million Liras (Around 17,000$) to ...
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Support Civil Marriage in Lebanon

13 years ago
Picture via Ghazayel The fight to legitimize civil marriage in Lebanon and recognize Kholoud & Nidal’s civil marriage is not over yet as President Michel Sleiman reiterated his full support and slammed Prime Minister Najib ...
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Reporting a kidnapping in Lebanon

13 years ago
A lot of kidnappings in Lebanon take place in the Bekaa – Source To sum up the story below in two words: If you don’t speak Arabic, you can’t report a crime to the ‘112’ ...
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On the Wata al-Jawz crime and the fate of Anthony Khalil

13 years ago
[YouTube] On the same day Al-Assir was visiting Kfardebian, Ghassan Seifeddine and his son Hady were killed in Wata Al-Jawz by Anthony Khalil during a personal dispute. Residents of Lebanon’s Jbeil town of Lassa, hometown ...
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Ahmad Al-Assir’s visit to Faraya: What if?

13 years ago
There’s an Arabic saying that says “يعمل من الحبة قبة” which I think sums up what happened on Thursday during Al-Assir’s visit when some Kfardebian residents blocked the roads to prevent him from reaching the ...
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