Pain D’or Issues Statement on the Rainbow Cake Controversy

An old picture showing rainbow cakes sold at Pain D'or resurged online few weeks ago, triggering an Anti-LGBTQ campaign against pastry shops selling rainbow cakes. The campaign even extended to include festivals that were raising colorful flags. Pain D'or responded to the controversy by issuing a statement condemning the attacks on the institution and clarifying that they have nothing to do with such movements, in referring to the LGBTQ community. While I understand that they…

Lebanon Just Cut Cultural Ties with Sweden & Denmark

Lebanon's Minister of Culture tweeted today that Lebanon will suspend cultural coordination with Denmark and Sweden and their corresponding embassies in Beirut. The decision comes after the Koran burnings that took place in both countries, which angered a lot of Muslims around the world. It's a hasty decision if you ask me, but an improvement from 2006 when protesters set fire to the Denmark embassy in Beirut. It is understandable that burning Islam's holy book…
BeirutBlast

“The Creator” Trailer Includes Real Footage From The Beirut Explosion

2 years ago
The director behind an upcoming movie called “The Creator” has decided to use real footage of the Beirut port crime to simulate a nuclear explosion. Footage of the Beirut port was modified to conceal some ...
Critiques

Energy Ministry Fined for Refusing To Hand Over Mseilha Dam Documents

2 years ago
Three years ago, I posted about the Mseilha dam asking why wasn’t it completed yet; the Energy Ministry claimed back then works are still underway and that we have to wait till 2021 for the ...
Critiques

Palms The Legend: Who Authorized This Monstrosity?

2 years ago
The Archaeological Site of Nahr el-Kalb has on Lebanon’s Tentative List for potential future World Heritage nomination since 2019 yet the Lebanese authorities don’t seem too adamant to include it. Instead, they somehow authorized a ...
Animals & Wildlife

Animal Rights Activist Ghina Nahfawi Summoned For Reporting Animal Abuse

2 years ago
I don’t recall ever seeing an animal rights activist as devoted & committed as Ghina is. I’ve been following her for years and she’s almost always relentlessly trying to solve every animal abuse case and ...
Critiques

BDL Vice Governors Plot to Renew Riad Salameh’s Term

2 years ago
BDL Governor Riad Salameh’s term is ending soon but it looks like there’s no other way but to renew for Salameh as Deputy Governor Wassim Mansouri refuses to take over and BDL Vice Governors released ...
Critiques

Lebanon Voted AGAINST a UN Resolution To Reveal Fate of Missing or Forcibly Disappeared in Syria.

2 years ago
Our Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib was bragging earlier today that he will abstain from voting in favor of establishing a UN commission to reveal the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared in Syria ...
Critiques

The Saida Public Beach Incident is Not About Religion

2 years ago
As much as the Bikini vs Burkini clash is being portrayed as a religious one following the Saida public beach incident, the real problem is the absence of the rule of law and the incompetence ...
Critiques

What does an Interpol Arrest Warrant for Salameh Mean?

2 years ago
The French Judiciary issued an international arrest warrant for Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh after failing to appear at a hearing in Paris. Salameh was being investigated for his alleged involvement in a suspected ...
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