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…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 22, 2018 08:57
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 YEARS before it, but we must remain hopeful that things will eventually change. This year's Lebanese Army poster looked as if someone used MS Paint to design it. On the other hand, Alfa teamed up with Tania Kassis, Michel Fadel…
Posted By
Najib
Nov 20, 2018 01:35
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 a company called BEASTS which was born out of the blue last year and organized a sports event with F1 cars and stuff. I honestly know nothing about the company but I didn't like one single bit what they did…
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 ...
Health
7 years ago
A year after my brother visited Philip Morris International’s HQ in Switzerland, he convinced me to switch from normal cigarettes to the IQOS Heated Tobacco System, and brought me the device along with four packs ...
Lebanon
7 years ago
According to Flight Global’s website, the Middle East Airlines’s full-year financial statement points to the commitment to 4 new Airbuses (A330neo) in addition to 11 previously announced ones (A321neo), in the carrier’s bid to modernise its long-haul ...
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