Lebanese Authorities Still Stalling After 6 Weeks of IMF Negotiations

The latest from the IMF-Lebanon ongoing negotiations: an ex-MP, jokingly or not we're not sure, asked the IMF if we could get money without reforms. Meanwhile, two members of Lebanon's negotiating team have already quit, including top financial official Alain Bifani. The talks are hitting the rocks, not due to IMF conditions, but because our rotten political leaders are still arguing for their own interests and can't agree on exact figures to submit to the…

Baalbeck International Festival Goes Virtual, Will Broadcast A One-of-a-kind Live Concert on July 5

"The show must go on." The Baalbeck International Festival is defying the COVID-19 confinement by going virtual and broadcasting live on July 5 a newly conceived concert by Maestro Harout Fazlian and produced by the Baalbeck International Festival. "The Sound of Resilience" is an act of cultural resilience, unity, and hope and will serve as an example for future concerts to be held during the ongoing health crisis. The show will be held without an…

Lebanon is Not an Affordable Country (Yet), it’s a Failed State & Bankrupt Country

We've seen a lot of politicians, journalists and analysts claim recently that we should be promoting Lebanon as a touristic destination now that the lira has devaluated and the dollar is worth four times as much as it was worth few months back. While it's truly that future tourists will have a much higher purchasing power with their Dollars, Euros & Riyals, promoting Lebanon as a tourist attraction at this moment might backfire big time.…

Lebanon Wants to Sell Its FireFighting Helicopters

A day before the October Revolution started, Lebanon was ravaged by fires that went out of control. Meanwhile, the incompetent authorities had just found out that their fire-fighting helicopters weren't working. Why? Incompetence and negligence as usual. Instead of figuring out a way to fix these helicopters, the government has opted this week to auction them along with five Hawker Hunters. The decision was taken to secure enough funds to buy new firefighting helicopters but…
Health

Safest Countries for COVID-19: UAE Ranks 11th, Lebanon 77th

6 years ago
A report on the top 100 safest countries for COVID-19 was issued by the Deep Knowledge Group, a consortium of companies and nonprofits owned by Deep Knowledge Ventures, an investment firm founded in 2014 in ...
Critiques

General Security Set Up Hot Lines To Report Currency Manipulation

6 years ago
What better way to regulate the work of exchange officers than ask people to snitch on each other 🙄? The Lebanese General Security has set up four hotlines to monitor the currency exchange operations and ...
Humor

When You Don’t Want the Authorities to Know You’re Selling Dollars

6 years ago
Everyone is selling & buying dollars in Lebanon and the easiest way to do so if you’re not a licensed exchanger is through WhatsApp groups. The black market is booming and those trading via WhatsApp ...
Fun

The “Wasta” Game

6 years ago
There’s a new Lebanese board game in town and it’s called Wasta. The game consists of several cards, including a police officer (Darake), a bank, a thug (Az3ar), your mom (Emmak), your neighbor (El Jara) ...
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