Updated: Disney Plus Originals Coming to the Middle East on April 9

Update: Disney+ will roll out to 42 other countries this summer including Lebanon. Here is the list of new countries getting Disney Plus, per The Hollywood Reporter: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Oman, Palestine, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab…

Lebanon Protests Featured in Money Heist Netflix Documentary

Netflix recently released an hour-long documentary Money Heist: The Phenomenon, showing why and how "Money Heist" sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world. Around Minute 6, they're talking on how jumpsuits and masks from the show were used in parades around the world, and how they were even used in political protest marches in Lebanon, Iraq, France and Chile. You can see here footage from the Lebanese October 17 Revolution, which was initially triggered…

Google’s COVID19 Mobility Reports for Lebanon

There's been a lot of talks in the past few days about Google's Coronavirus mobility reports, which are feeding users' location history to "chart movement trends over time by geography, across different high-level categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential". In simpler terms, Google is feeding from its users' movements to show how visits and length of stay at different places change compared to a…

UNESCO Expresses Concerns Over Construction Project in Nahr el Kalb

UNESCO director Mechtild Rössler published an open letter expressing concerns to the Lebanese authorities, over the announcement of a construction project at the Archaeological Site of Nahr El-Kalb. She continued saying: In particular, the World Heritage Centre would like to recall that, in signing the World Heritage Convention, each State Party recognizes that “the duty of ensuring the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission to future generations of the cultural and natural heritage situated on…
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Interior Minister Puts in Place License Plate-Based Driving Restrictions

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Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmi issued a circular today stating that – Vehicles with a license plate ending in an odd number may now only be driven Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. and – Vehicles with a ...
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Two Easy DIY No-Sew Approaches To Make Face Masks

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Should healthy people wear masks to prevent Coronavirus? Should everyone wear masks? Is a Homemade Mask effective? Which material should we use? Are cloth face coverings recommended? How about cheap paper masks? Bandanas? The truth ...
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SPEAK UP COVID: Much-Needed Psychological Support for Health Care Workers

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Everyone’s talking about providing health care workers with personal protective equipment, but there’s another crisis that few are tackling, which is how to mitigate or prevent more serious psychological or mental health issues that health ...
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AUBMC Launches Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center To Counter COVID19 Outbreak

5 years ago
Early last week, The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) announced that they’re now performing COVID19 tests at their newly established Pandemic Evaluation Clinic And Center. The PECC is located in Building 56, the ...
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