Why don’t we have electricity?

Seriously what's with the hold up? Is it money? In Kuwait where I am currently living for example we had a power shortage last year. Kuwait was producing around 10,000 megawatts of electricity but we were using around 9,800. So this year they increased the production by by 2,000 so that we have 12,000 megawatts and they will keep increasing it until by 2015 we would be producing 20,000 megawatts. From what I previously read…

zaatar w zeit

I'm a big fan of zaatar w zeit but I absolutely dislike their new identity as well as the new look and feel of their branches. With their new identity I feel like they're leaving the Lebanese culture behind and heading towards a generic fast food chain look. Why drop the beautiful Arabic typography? Why go from warm, cozy and homy to cold and clinical?
Critiques

Seriously?

14 years ago
Do we really need to fire weapons to separate football players who are fighting? Seriously? Machine gun fire starts at 1:49 [YouTube] ...
Events

What’s with the very very late performances?

14 years ago
It is reasonable for artists in pubs or night clubs to start singing at 11 or 12 pm as the party would not have kicked in yet, but why is it becoming a trend in ...
Critiques

Pier 7 night club on the Seaside road

14 years ago
A new club opened up on the Seaside road yesterday. This isn’t a post about the club itself but the ridiculous amount of traffic it caused yesterday around 7 while I was going back home ...
Critiques

Jounieh International Festival 2011

14 years ago
I passed by Jounieh tonight since today was the start of the festival they’re having. They’ve basically closed up the old stone street so no cars can get in and when I went down the ...
Automotive

Dora Pothole cost me a new tyre

14 years ago
Maybe I should send the municipality the bill for the new tyre I bought. That’s what people do everywhere else in the civilized world. [Link] ...
Critiques

Bac Libanais ou Francais?

14 years ago
My brother presented the French Baccalaureate two weeks ago and he is now presenting the Lebanese baccalaureate “just for fun”. Most students enrolled in private schools don’t care about the Lebanese Baccalaureate and treat it ...
Critiques

Aishti need to get their act together

14 years ago
I was reading a post on Ivy Says about a recent issue she faced at one of the Aishti stores. I thought what happened to her was extremely inappropriate and decided to email Aishti myself ...
Critiques

How to preserve old Beirut houses

14 years ago
Was this really the best way to preserve that old house in Sursoq street in Achrafieh ? by constructing on top of it and blocking its front view? I would have preferred that they demolish ...
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