What’s With This Year’s #Beirut Christmas Decoration?

A ex-member of Beirut's municipality tweeted today claiming that the NGO in charge of decorating for Christmas this year is installing the same decoration from the year before. If I'm not mistaken he's referring to a company called BEASTS which was born out of the blue last year and organized a sports event with F1 cars and stuff. I honestly know nothing about the company but I didn't like one single bit what they did…

Celebrating 9,000 Blog Posts Today

I was looking at my dashboard today and realized I had crossed the 9,000 posts mark, which means that I've been average around 3 blog posts daily for the past 8 years or so!! I never thought I'd be blogging for this long and I'm not planning on stopping any time soon since I'm still enjoying it. I hear a lot of people claiming that blogging is dead, but I disagree. If you're not reading…
Critiques

No One Wants to Take the Blame for Friday’s Sewage floods

7 years ago
Every time it rains in Lebanon, sewer lines are blocked causing floods all over the road but what happened on Friday was a different story. Ramlet el Baida and Bliss streets were flooded by sewage ...
Automotive

The Cost of Yesterday’s Traffic is $30 Million

7 years ago
Traffic congestion isn’t just a nuisance for drivers but it has a high toll on the economy. According to World Bank studies, 3 hours in traffic cost up to $30 Million, and we’re between 2.5 ...
Critiques

What Are We Parading For?

7 years ago
We all love and respect our Lebanese Army, we all cherish our country and want to celebrate its Independence but I don’t understand why are we still holding the yearly parades? Our army needs money, ...
Critiques

[Updated]: EDZ No More?

7 years ago
[Dec 15 – 2020]: EDZ contract is set to expire by end of year, and the parliament hasn’t met yet to renew it, which is exactly what many were worried about two years ago. In ...
Critiques

What Happened to Rafic Hariri’s Planned Garden in Beirut?

7 years ago
I spotted this sign for the first time six years ago maybe if not more, and yet there’s still no garden there and not even a sign that they might be working on one. The ...
Critiques

What Happens to the Water Bottles at the #Beirut Marathon?

7 years ago
A lot of people yesterday during the Beirut Marathon become all of environmentally conscious and started sharing pictures of discarded water bottles on the side of the road. Tens of thousands of runners join the ...
Critiques

AUB’s Outlook Team Thinks Homophobia is an Opinion

7 years ago
Last week, I saw a couple of homophobic articles published in AUB’s Outlook paper being shared by ex-AUBites including one of Outlook’s ex-Editor in Chief. One of the articles tackles the “elusive search for a ...
Critiques

Generator Owners vs. Economy Ministry, There’s Only One Loser: The People

7 years ago
Two days ago, private generators announced a two hour temporary shutdown throughout Lebanon and the majority of generator owners complied with this decision. In return, the Economy Ministry vowed new measures against generator owners and ...
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