Four Lebanese-Canadians Run in Quebec Elections

Johny Kayrouz, “Coalition Avenir Québec” candidate. One of them, Johny Kairouz, is a good friend of mine and is more than qualified for the job . I will write a more detailed post on how to vote for them in the next few days. Hopefully, they will show a good image of Lebanon unlike the politicians we have here. Four Lebanese-Canadians are running in the upcoming National Assembly’s elections in Quebec as candidates for the…

What really happened with Gretta Taslakian?

I had posted earlier today that Lebanese athlete Gretta Taslakian was banned from the Olympic Village and had to return home after she was seen wearing Ireland's uniform during a training session. Added to that and according to Lorient-LeJour's article, it was Gretta's coach Vahé Abrahamian who testified against her and showed the Olympic committee pictures of Gretta wearing Ireland's uniform . I thought the story is very weird and did some research and asked…

Malicious Virus hits Lebanese banks

The Lebanese banks infected by the "Gauss" virus are Bank of Beirut, EBLF, Blom Bank, Byblos Bank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais. The malware, which steals system information but also has a mysterious payload that could be destructive against critical infrastructure, has been found infecting at least 2,500 machines, most of them in Lebanon, according to Russia-based security firm Kaspersky Lab, which discovered the malware in June and published an extensive analysis of it on Thursday.…

Gretta Taslakian (unjustly) banned from The Olympic Village

According to an article from L’Orient-Le Jour, Lebanese athlete Gretta Taslakian was banned from the Olympic Village in London for wearing the Irish team's uniform during a training session and flew back to Lebanon on Tuesday. L’Orient-Le Jour contacted Gretta who denied that she was wearing the Irish uniform and said it was simply a green Nike jacket. She added that she still has the jacket and it has nothing to do with the Irish…
Lebanon

Andrea Paoli last Lebanese to compete at the London 2012 Olympics

13 years ago
Andrea Paoli is our last hope for a medal at the Olympics as we haven’t had luck with any of our other Lebanese athletes. She will be competing at 11:30am in the Women’s -57kg Preliminary ...
Information

NASA rover lands on Mars

13 years ago
NASA team showing Lebanese Charles al-Achi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It’s a great honor to have a Lebanese at such a high position especially that this is the first time NASA has successfully ...
Critiques

Ogero DSL modem disconnecting randomly

13 years ago
I’ve been very pleased with the connection and speed ever since I switched from Wise to DSL few months back, but I’ve been having some weird issues that I was only able to figure out ...
Automotive

I have a BMW 330 CI, Call me Maybe?

13 years ago
Is there any reason why someone would put his/her cell number on the back of their car? ...
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