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Najib
Jan 24, 2019 08:00
A 12-meter long art installation representing a flag made of black smoke was placed in Beirut yesterday next to the site of the planned waste incinerator. The flag that was raised symbolizes the black landscape that will surround Beirut area and its surrounding if we do not move quickly to stop the adoption of incinerators as a solution for waste management in light of the poor management of public facilities in Lebanon. Needless to say,…
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Najib
Jan 24, 2019 05:45
Lebanon lost yesterday a legendary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema, George Nasser. Nasser was the first director to put Lebanon on the map of global movie-making when his movie "Ila Ayn", which went on to become the first Lebanese film to be picked up for Cannes. His second film, The Small Stranger , was also selected for Cannes in 1962. Nasser's career was cut short by the Lebanese Civil War when…
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Najib
Jan 23, 2019 08:21
In a recent interview back in October, the Minister of State for Combating corruption said he had done everything he could to fight corruption with the meager resources he has. He claims that he has no money, except his salary, that the ministry has no employees and wonders why an office tasked with fighting corruption given no resources? While it's true that this ministry, and any ministry of state for that sake, doesn't have any…
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Najib
Jan 22, 2019 06:23
Mabrouk! We're three spots away from the lowest ranking awarded by Moody's. Yesterday, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the Government of Lebanon's issuer ratings to Caa1 and changed the outlook from negative to stable. Here's why we got downgraded AGAIN! Moody's decision to downgrade the ratings to Caa1 reflects the heightened risk that the government's response to increased liquidity and financial stability risks will include a debt rescheduling or other liability management exercise that may…
Baladi
7 years ago
For the second year in a row, we have a Lebanese film nominated for an Oscar. This time, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum was officially nominated for an Oscar under the Best Foreign Language Film category. Labaki ...
Critiques
7 years ago
There’s nothing wrong with showing good hospitality to fellow Arab leaders but there’s no need to overdo it whenever an oil-rich country offers us some money. First rumors spread that the Qatari ruler agreed to ...
Critiques
7 years ago
It’s a good thing Qatar’s ruler showed up to the Arab Summit held in Beirut, otherwise we wouldn’t have had anything to talk about. And what better way to cover his visit than talk about ...
Fun
7 years ago
I’m honestly having mixed feelings on how to tackle this piece of news. If we look at it from a technology perspective, adding a QR code is a pretty useless feature to have nowadays for ...
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