Sports Against Violence event in Achrafieh Sassine

The "Sports Against Violence" committee organized its second edition on the 9th and 10th of June 2012 in Sassine Square, Achrafieh. Picture taken by Naziha Having said that, can someone explain to me what part of eating a snake alive in front of children and parents constitutes a non-violent act or is appropriate for such an event? For those of you who wish to watch a video on how army commandos eat live snakes, click…

Beautiful Beirut

Picture taken by stencilage, on Flickr I've been checking for the past 20 minutes amazing pictures of Beirut and Lebanon on Skyscrapercity.com. They have a thread dedicated to Beirut and it's updated almost daily with new pictures. I picked up few of the latest posted pictures. You can check out the rest . Picture taken by stencilage, on Flickr Picture by LAXFlyer Picture Courtesy of Solidere, Beirut.

Beirut replaces Abu Dhabi as most expensive city in Middle East

A woman looks down upon central Beirut from the top floor of the Four Seasons Hotel, Beirut. Picture by Cormac Walsh The Middle East sees its ranking fall in Mercer's 2012 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey due largely to a drop in rental prices.The survey found that Beirut is the most expensive city to live in this year within the Middle East, moving up eight notches to number 67. Mercer's survey factors in the cost…

Government websites hacked … again

Two Lebanese government websites were hacked Saturday by a group aligned with the online hacking community known as Anonymous. The group Raise Your Voice took down the websites of the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers . Last times were back in March and April. Speaking of electricity, Lebanon Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said Wednesday evening that power blackouts “could reach 15 hours per…
Information

MEA flight crew let blogger go inside the cabin

14 years ago
[YouTube] Nice Video taken From Joesbox.me Joe from Joe’s Box was on his first MEA trip when he asked the pilot to enter the cabin and take pictures and videos from up above, and to ...
Information

Hotline for Lebanese expats

14 years ago
The Foreign Ministry will establish a hotline for the Lebanese expats across the world to enable them to contact the Lebanese authorities in case of emergencies, As Safir newspaper reported on Thursday. [Link] NowLebanon’s Lousia ...
Humor

MTV’s Talk of the town: Madeleine Matar vs. Michel Bou Sleiman

14 years ago
[YouTube] I saw the part where they started arguing and Michel leaves but then I switched to football. It was weird because Michel is a funny guy but it felt like he went too far ...
Food

FAIL: Grand Café – Beirut

14 years ago
Would you like some Backed Potatoes? Thanks Roy! ...
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