Posted By
Najib
Nov 14, 2017 09:44
I was watching a report on LBC on Sunday regarding sexual violence in Lebanon and the numbers they showed are quite scary to say the least. More importantly, they shed the light on the pathetic sentence that a person who commits incestuous rape gets when compared to the sentence of a person accused of cheque fraud. In fact, a person committed of incestuous rape can get five years while less serious crimes crimes could get…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 08, 2017 09:18
Ever since PM Saad Hariri announced his resignation from KSA on Al Arabiya channel, we've all been receiving tons of jokes, memes and videos and while most of the jokes are quite hilarious, the sad fact is that the joke is really on us not on Saad Hariri. I don't want to get into the details of his resignation and whether it was forced or not, not to mention all the conspiracy theories around it,…
Critiques
8 years ago
Ever since PM Hariri resigned, I’ve been receiving tons of jokes and videos and apparently someone even came up with a website asking to free Saad Hariri. That’s what we’re so good at as Lebanese, ...
Architecture
8 years ago
The Laziza brewery (“Laziza Grande Brasserie du Levant”), which was established in the early 1930s and closed in 2003 got demolished a couple of days ago to make way for a new project called “Mar ...
Critiques
8 years ago
The Burj Hammoud garbage mountain is being slowly dumped into the sea and no one’s doing anything to stop this catastrophe. In fact, there’s barely any mention of it on the news and it appears ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Lebanon’s Minister of Economy held a press conference where he tackled the impacts of the Syrian crisis from 2011 till today on the Lebanese economy and stressed that we can no longer bear this crisis. ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Lebanon’s highest state security court sentenced earlier today Habib Chartouni and Nabil al-Alam to death in absentia in the case of the 1982 assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel. Both were stripped from their civil rights ...
Information
8 years ago
I found this nice 4-minute video on the story of the Lebanese flag and how it came to be. While the historical facts are accurate, the flag they showed is not the official Lebanese flag ...
Animals & Wildlife
8 years ago
It appears that there’s a new cat slayer at the American University of Beirut whereas a cat was found killed and cut into pieces recently. Two years ago, someone was found smashing kittens with stones ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Even if most of our ministers are incompetent, they always tend to sympathize with the people and lie to them to make them believe they’re doing things for their own good. They never cease to ...
