“Beyrouth la rayonnante”, a new 43-minute documentary by M6

French TV stations love to explore countries that speak the same language all around the world, Lebanon being one of them. M6 has unleashed on its TV show 66 minutes on July 14, a new 43-minute documentary entitled "Beyrouth la rayonnante", French for "The radiant Beirut", which tackles a beautiful side of the capital. A seulement 4 heures de Paris, francophone et baignée par la méditerranée, Beyrouth offre un cadre idéal pour les expatriés. Entre…

Lebanon Starts Long Qualifying Journey for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup 2023

Just like in Basketball, Lebanon's FIFA team has a mountain to climb if they are to reach the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.But first, they have to go through the 2022 World Cup qualification second round, whose draw was announced on July 17, and back it up later on in the third round. Lebanon was drawn in Group H, alongside South Korea , North Korea , Turkmenistan and Sri Lanka . The 8 group winners and…

Lebanon to Have its First Netflix Series “Dollar” on August 8

A few weeks after controversial Jordanian series "Jinn" made the headlines by becoming the first Arabic series to hit the Netflix platform on June 13, Lebanon strikes with a series of his own, "Dollar", which will star Lebanese actor Adel Karam and Algerian-Lebanese actress Amel Bouchoucha. Beautiful executive assistant Zeina reluctantly teams up with the self-assured Tarek to chase down an elusive dollar bill worth $1 million. The 15-episode drama will be a Netflix Original,…

Interior Minister Raya El Hassan to Make “Special” Car Plates Public for sale

In a tweet unleashed today on her official account, Minister of Interior and Municipalities Raya El Hassan, who has been making positive headlines ever since she took the position, by removing blocs from the front of the General Security in Adlieh, to prohibiting ministerial convoys and allowing Lebanese citizens to get their Civil Extract from their area of residence to name a few, has announced that "special" car plates will be made public soon, on…
Lebanon

Mashrou’ Leila Under pressure to Cancel Byblos International Festival Gig

6 years ago
A Facebook page by the name of “جُنود الرَّب” (God’s soldiers) has been unleashing since July 17 a series of posts to its 5.5K followers condemning Mashrou’ Leila’s sexual/religious ideologies, performances and lyrics. This comes ...
Fun

Cheesy Song to Promote Tourism in Lebanon

6 years ago
I like the idea behind this video clip to include politicians and artists and it’s nicely shot (even though the majority of scenes are taken from past events) but can the lyrics get cheesier than ...
Critiques

Article 94 Aimed at Limiting MPs’ Salaries Scrapped from 2019 Budget

6 years ago
When the budget was finally approved two days ago, I kept checking articles to see what happened to Article 94 which dealt with reducing the salaries of MPs, only to find out today that it ...
Critiques

Megaphone X SMEX On Online Free Speech Violations

6 years ago
2019 and 2018 witnessed alarming developments in the use of archaic media laws to arrest, interrogate and prosecute people over social media posts in Lebanon. According to digital rights group Social Media Exchange (SMEX), the ...
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