Posted By
Najib
Sep 28, 2019 01:15
I asked today on Facebook whether we had any climate marches in #Beirut, and someone linked me to an event planned by AUB students. The group is called Fridays for Future Lebanon, in reference to the #FridaysforFuture movement that 16 year old environmental activist Greta Thunberg had started. I couldn't find pictures of the march nor did anyone cover it, which is a shame, but it's great to see students engaged in such protests, even…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 27, 2019 03:57
As soon as rumors spread about the availability of the dollar currency in the banks, everyone started withdrawing his dollars or looking for ways to transfer them abroad. Same when gas station owners declared a strike, everyone rushed to fill up their tanks and form queues at the stations, but these are all diversions from the real problem at hand: The lack of an economic initiative to get us out of this mess. To begin…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 25, 2019 04:31
31,800kg of clothes collected, 5570 beneficiaries, 28280 items sold in 65 different markets, and 45 collection bins set up across Lebanon. FabricAID was founded by Omar Itani, in an attempt to efficiently collect, sort and redistribute clothes to disadvantaged communities at microprices . Omar's initiative won him the 2019 Young Champion of the Earth for West Asia as FabricAID reuses and recycles unwanted clothes, and has distributed & sold more than 60,000 items of clothing…
Posted By
Fred
Sep 24, 2019 09:12
The "fair usage policy" is something we got used to hearing in Lebanon in the technology domain, with data consumption. But guess what? Zomato has started applying it too. On September 21st, if you consulted your Inbox/Junk folders at around 10PM, Zomato would have sent you a broadcast stating the following: Dear Member, Zomato Gold’s journey in the last few months has been nothing short of phenomenal. This couldn't have been possible without the trust…
Lebanon
6 years ago
After suffering a backlash following the cancellation of both Mashrou’ Leila and Within Temptation’s concerts at their festival this year, Byblos are desperately trying to make amends for and recover from their disappointing 2019 residual ...
Baladi
6 years ago
The Guardian released its 100 best movies of the 21st century list and Capernaum is featured among them. Ranked #71, here’s what they said about Nadine Labaki’s masterpiece: A sprawling drama that functions both as ...
Critiques
6 years ago
This is not the first time this happens and won’t be the last. Yet another Lebanese athlete forced to drop out of a competition to avoid confronting an Israeli. This time it was Lebanese Wrestler ...
Critiques
6 years ago
I have no idea what they were thinking. Not only is the idea behind the ad a racist one, but they went as far as using the N word! The best part is how some ...
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