New Transavia Lyon-Beirut route to be established in April 2019

Building up quite a good reputation in Lebanon during the past year or so, Transavia France, the low-cost arm of the Air France-KLM Group and the French operations of Transavia, will be launching a weekly flight from Lyon to Beirut, starting April 2019. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft will operate this route once a week on Saturdays only, all the way to the Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, and the trip will cost around 79 euros . Tickets went…

Maya Reaidy Crowned Miss Lebanon 2018

MTV were hosting Miss Lebanon this year after 22 years, and an LAU pharmacy student won the title this year. Maya Reaidy was the prettiest of all, even though it was Mira Toufaily, a 26 year old who was raised by SOS, who won people's hearts. Mira Toufaily I didn't watch but followed some of the tweets. Funnily enough, someone was sharing a screenshot of Maya's "official" instagram account with a description that said "Miss…

75-Year Old Publisher Dar Assayad To Shut Down

Al-Anwar newspaper first declared on its front page and it will stop being published, only to be followed by news that its publisher, Dar Assaad, which was founded in 1943 by Said Freiha, will halt all the magazines it publishes – including Fayrouz, Achabaka and Assayad, "Fares", "Al Difa3 Al Arabi" and others. Assafir, one of Lebanon's oldest newspapers, also decided to shut down in 2016 due to financial difficulties. A sad day for Lebanese…

So What if Nishan hosted a Male Stripper?

When I saw the video of a male stripper performing on Nishan's new show on Al Jadeed, I was like why are all these TVs sinking to new lows but then I looked up the whole episode and it was a rather interesting one. Showing the guy stripping without watching the whole 1-hour episode will obviously shock people but the topic at hand was rather well dealt with and I encourage everyone to watch the…
Lebanon

#Dawwi_3alGhalat: Himaya Launches New Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse

7 years ago
One out of six kids in Lebanon are victims of a kind of sexual abuse. The number is scary but it’s true and the only way to prevent further child abuse is by reporting them. ...
Food

Dunkin’ Donuts to become Dunkin’, with Lebanon to follow trend starting 2019

7 years ago
After 20 years of going under the name “Dunkin’ Donuts”, the American-borne company has decided to move to Dunkin’ to emphasize the selling of coffee and other drinks, beside doughnuts. This will happen in January ...
Critiques

Siemens CEO Did Offer to Help #Lebanon in its Electricity Crisis

7 years ago
We’ve been hearing for the past week or so about an offer submitted by Siemens’ CEO to the Lebanese government to build power stations in Lebanon. A leaked voice note recorded by lawmaker Yassin Jaber ...
News

[Updated] South Africa Added to Countries Lebanese can Visit Without a VISA

7 years ago
[Update: May 1 2019] One of the blog readers informed me the embassy denied the below and we still need a VISA until further notice. Lebanese will no longer need a visa to visit South ...
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