Posted By
Najib
Jul 07, 2018 05:00
Update Sept 10 2018: Mona is set to be released after her prison term was cut to one year and suspended. Great news! This is crazy! A Lebanese woman called Mona el-Mazbouh has been sentenced to 11 years in prison in Egypt after she used profanities to describe her vacation in Cairo in a video she shared online. Obviously what she did is wrong but to jail her for 11 years is way too harsh…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 06, 2018 05:38
I've been wanting try this feature since January but it wasn't available in Lebanon . Basically The Google Arts & Culture app released an update few months ago that helps you find your fine art doppelgänger. All you need to do is take a selfie or a normal picture and Google will match your photo with a database of over 70,000 works. I gave it a try with Brian and the results were pretty funny,…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 06, 2018 04:18
In case you're wondering on which planet our politicians are, we just launched our first EV charging station in Lebanon, dubbed "a good environmental step in the sector", while half the country has been complaining in the past few days about the exorbitant generator bills. Yes an EV station will definitely help the environment, especially when there's no 24/7 electricity and there's barely any electric vehicles in the country. Also are there any guarantees no…
Posted By
Najib
Jul 05, 2018 05:41
Remember when we were promised 24/7 electricity in 2015? Then in 2017? Then before summer is here? Instead, the highest generator bills we paid this year were in May and June this year and the worst is yet to come. We've seen ministers blame the electricity crisis on refugees, on corruption, on other parties yet no short-term solutions are being implemented to compensate for the power shortage, except further polluting power ships of course. I…
Fun
5 years ago
I’ve been tempted to try the Ancestry DNA test for quite some time now, to have more information on my heritage, and the ethnic groups and geographic regions I originate from. I’ve looked online and ...
Critiques
5 years ago
A couple of years ago, I was reading an article on how the notorious Saida garbage mountain was being transformed into a Green Park following a rehabilitation project led by The United Nations Development Programme ...
Lebanon
5 years ago
One of the blog’s readers sent me a link to an 1988 documentary on the illegal trade of Hashish in the Bekaa valley. The documentary is called The Hashish Connection and is available, not for ...
Lebanon
5 years ago
I posted about this short film three years ago when they had just released the trailer. Now that the World Cup is back, I just noticed the movie is out. Here’s the synopsis: Beirut, on ...
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