Posted By
Najib
May 24, 2015 03:57
via MEA Since Middle East Airlines is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, I thought I dig out old posters and pictures to reflect on these 70 years and how things have changed. Enjoy! PS: All the pictures are from pinterest and Qadiman.
Posted By
Najib
May 21, 2015 09:24
If you are like old pictures and videos of Lebanon, then Kheireddine El-Ahdab is the man to follow. He always shares the most amazing old videos and pictures of Beirut and Lebanon and his latest is this amazing 5-minute high quality video shot in Beirut and Lebanon in the 1960s. The video is from the AP archives and was taken from the movie 24 hours to kill. You can easily spot the old Beirut airport,…
Beirut
9 years ago
The oldest picture of Phoenicia I was able to find. It was taken before the grand opening in 1961 Phoenicia Beirut was celebrating its 50th anniversary around the same time four years ago. This majestic ...
Automotive
9 years ago
via RaniaelKhatib I don’t know how accurate this poster is but Lissan Al Hal (in Arabic لسان الحال) was a daily Lebanese newspaper that was established by Khalil Sarkis in the 1870s and is considered ...
Information
9 years ago
Update (19 March 2015):: Here’s a small french text I found about the monument “Le groupe en bronze sculpté par un italien du nom de Mazzucati a pris la place du monument en pierre de ...
Lebanon
9 years ago
Old Picture of British Troops in the Cedars Back In the 1940s – via Old Beirut Check out this pretty cool footage from 1941 that was shot by the Australian Imperial Forces in the Cedars. ...
Beirut
9 years ago
The old Beiruti house Fairouz grew up in won’t be demolished and turned into a skyscraper. Instead the municipality of Beirut will take over the house and turn it into a museum to honor Fairouz’s ...
Lebanon
9 years ago
Update: Here’s a [link] to the full video. Chawki Matta, Houwayda, Rafic Najem and Madeleine Tabbar are in that movie. I saw somewhere in the comments that the guy singing at the end is Sami ...
Lebanon
9 years ago
This cartoon was published on the 19th of August 1976 by the French satirical magazine. It translates to “Seedy people knife themselves. Rich people are in Côte d’Azur”. I found this cartoon [here] and I ...
Information
9 years ago
This picture was shared on Old Beirut today and shows Beirut covered in snow back in February 1920. Apparently there was an old saying for people who were born in that year in Beirut that ...
