Meet Five Lebanese Women That Are Doing “Men’s” work

Elsy Abou Zeid — Mechanical technician at Volvo Greg Demarque from Executive Magazine interviewed five Lebanese women defying gender stereotypes and working in professions heavily dominated by men. Elsy Abou Zeid is a Mechanical Technician at Volvo, Cynthia Bitar is the owner and executive chef at Nazira Catering, Rola Hoteit works as a MEA pilot, Nancy Arbid is an aerospace engineer and Diana Salameh is a winemaker at Domaine Wardy. Check out the full article…

FAIL: OTV’s Lousy Take On Homosexuality

Instead of tackling homosexuality in Lebanon in an objective and scientific matter, OTV decided to promote the show by asking whether homosexuality is a fashion trend or an illness. In order to be fair, I did bother and watch the show and while the doctors and Pierre Bou Saab were mostly spot on and made sense, the host kept asking the wrong questions and making wrong assumptions and over-generalizing. Homosexuality is not a trend nor…
Lebanon

What If We Let Kids From All Over Lebanon Fix Our Problems?

10 years ago
Four years ago, the Happiness Heroes helped students from schools all across Lebanon to become socially aware at a younger age and encouraged principals to become more socially responsible and environment-friendly. This year, Picon’s Machrou3 ...
Lebanon

From Football Teammates In Lebanon To Sworn Enemies In Syria

10 years ago
Picture taken from Al Akhaa Ahli Aley Football Team Archive This picture, which was shared by Hazem al Amin today, pretty much sums up how the Syrian Civil War has spilled over into Lebanon. It ...
Critiques

I Want Justice For Yves But I Am Against The Death Penalty

10 years ago
The judge in charge of Yves Nawfal’s murder has recommended the death penalty for six people and sentences ranging from three to 20 years for the others, before referring the case to the Criminal Court ...
Economics

How Corrupt Are The Lebanese?

10 years ago
A survey was conducted by Sakker el Dekkene in order to evaluate the attitude of Lebanese citizens towards corruption and their willingness to compromise on their principles and bribe officials. 7810 doors were knocked and ...
Humor

Can You Smoke Arguile While Dancing Dabke?

10 years ago
I am sure you all opened that post to check out how someone can dance and smoke arguile at the same time, but the aim was to shed the light on a Facebook page “Sa2afetna” ...
Critiques

Is Civil Marriage Legal Or Not In Lebanon?

10 years ago
Civil marriage in Lebanon was dealt a setback last week after Interior Minister Machnouk’s statement. During an interview on Kalam Ennas, Machnouk said that he doesn’t encourage legalizing civil marriage and that “Cyprus is not ...
Lebanon

#Lebanon Has The Highest Per Capita Concentration of Refugees in The World: 257 refugees per 1,000 inhabitants

10 years ago
The UN announced last week that Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population (aside from Palestinians) as they’ve fled to over 100 countries to escape war in Syria. They are more than 3 ...
Critiques

A Letter From Yves

10 years ago
Yves deserved candles not bullets, he deserved birthday cakes and celebrations not a funeral. I didn’t know Yves, neither did many of us, but we all helped spread his story and ask for the arrest ...
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