“Marqet”: Lebanon’s First Blind-friendly Supermarket

On September 27, the Lebanese NGO Red Oak launched in collaboration with the Youth Association of the Blind , at the “Marqet” supermarket on the Koraytem main road, Beirut, its “Red Oak Blind-Friendly Market” project which continues the NGO's recent cultural project aiming at facilitating the entrance of the blind and visually-impaired persons to museums in Lebanon. This new initiative has resulted so far in 5 employees of "Marqet" being trained during a two-day workshop to guide…

Ottawa Names Street After St. Charbel

During Patriach Rai's visit to Canada, he visited Ottawa where one of the largest Lebanese communities live, and celebrated the renaming of a section of Donald Street in Ottawa to St. Charbel Way4 . Ottawa's Saint Charbel Parish is located on that same street . Celebrations and fire works followed the event. Here's a video.

The first Lebanese “Broadway Musical” sees the light this October at the Casino du Liban

Many of you have dreamed of watching one for years. Here's your chance to do so in Lebanon, at the Casino du Liban, on October 12, 13 and 14. Majnoun Leila - مجنون ليلى is the first-ever "Broadway musical" to be entirely produced in Lebanon. It's a unique adaptation of the classic tale of Qays & Leila, narrated by a circus troupe led by a flamboyant leading player; A story of forbidden love portrayed by whimsical characters…
Lebanon

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

7 years ago
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 ...
Fun

Maya Reaidy Crowned Miss Lebanon 2018

7 years ago
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 ...
Lebanon

75-Year Old Publisher Dar Assayad To Shut Down

7 years ago
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 ...
Critiques

So What if Nishan hosted a Male Stripper?

7 years ago
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 ...
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