Posted By
Najib
Nov 24, 2018 02:19
If you thought the speech given by Lebanon's ambassador to the Ivory Coast was bad, wait till you hear our Lebanese Ambassador in Ghana recite poetry in English. This guy even has his own website where he brags about being "the first poet who filmed the poem in a Video Clip", whatever that means. There's no harm in being an ambassador and a poet of course, but why bother destroy these poems by reciting them…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 24, 2018 09:52
Al Rayess beer joined the latest Beirut Beer vs. Almaza battle and hit back at Beirut Beer in an epic way. As you all know, Almaza was celebrating its 85th anniversary alongside Lebanon's 75-years of Independence, to which Beirut Beer indirectly responded with this ad. And that's where Al Rayess, an Almaza product, intervened: I love these ad-wars, keep them coming!
Posted By
Najib
Nov 24, 2018 09:43
Last year, French-Lebanese trumpet player and teacher and composer Ibrahim Maalouf was celebrating his César for “Best Original Score” at France’s most prominent film awards. This year, he faced accusations of assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl and was recently handed a suspended prison sentence for sexual assault Friday by a French court. The girl, now aged 19, testified in court that he had kissed her and grabbed her without her consent, which Maalouf denied. He was…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 23, 2018 02:10
There are over twenty inscriptions and rock reliefs carved into the Nahr el Kalb rocks summarizing Lebanon's history throughout the centuries, but we still don't have one that marks the end of the 29-long Syrian occupation of Lebanon. Few years back, I remember March 14, or whatever was left of them, wanted to place an inscription but it got removed by the Minister of Culture if I'm not mistaken. Now our Foreign Minister wants to…
Advertising
7 years ago
Here’s a nice roundup of some of the Lebanese ads, videos and posters about Lebanon’s Independence that were shared in the past week or so. There’s not much to celebrate this year, just like the ...
Critiques
7 years ago
A ex-member of Beirut’s municipality tweeted today claiming that the NGO in charge of decorating for Christmas this year is installing the same decoration from the year before. If I’m not mistaken he’s referring to ...
Opinions/critiques
7 years ago
I was looking at my dashboard today and realized I had crossed the 9,000 posts mark, which means that I’ve been average around 3 blog posts daily for the past 8 years or so!! I ...
Lebanon
7 years ago
[Update March 5 2019: The former boss of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has been granted bail by a Tokyo court in a surprise decision. [BBC]] Now that’s not something we’d want to be hearing about Carlos ...
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