Meet Zaatar w Zeit’s Super-Natural Green Sandwich!

As you all have probably guessed by now, the green people spotted and the green billboards on the highway were part of a teaser campaign by Zaatar W Zeit to launch their latest product, a green sandwich dubbed "the Super-Natural Green". I dropped by ABC Dbayyeh yesterday to give it a try and I must admit it's quite delicious! the wrap looks weird as it's all green but it's comes entirely from the natural spinach…

The Story Behind This Iconic Lebanese Civil War Picture Shot 33 years Ago

With April 13, the remembrance day of Lebanon's war, approaching, I found this intriguing article posted by the Guardian on a Lebanese Photographer called Maher Attar who got reunited with the one-legged mother that he took a picture of during the Civil War and that made it to the front of the New York Times "capturing Lebanon’s disintegration like few other images in the 15-year conflict and launched his career". It's a very powerful image…

Controversial Article 49 of the 2018 Budget Paving the Way for Naturalization?

You'd expect the Lebanese parliament to make the new 2018 Lebanese budget available online or in the papers, especially that it's the first budget we pass since 2005 but I couldn't find it anywhere and even more specifically, none of the articles on the budget had any reference to the controversial Article 49 that allows any foreign national who invests in a real estate starting at around $500,000 inside Beirut and $330,000 elsewhere to obtain…

List of Donors at the #CEDRE Conference

Lebanon received more than $11 billion between loans and grants at the CEDRE conference last week, in a bid to support development projects and reforms in the country. We were looking for investments between $16 and $17 billion for Phase I and Phase II of the Capital Investment Program that was being presented, so the outcome is rather positive and exceeded expectations. However, these billions don't really mean anything and will only increase our debts…
Fun

[Updated] Lebanese to Watch the 2018 World Cup for Free?

7 years ago
[31/05/2018] Annahar reported an agreement was reached to broadcast the World Cup on Tele Liban for free. Information Minister Melhem Riachi has promised football fans in Lebanon that they will be watching the 2018 FIFA ...
Lebanon

Review: Honor 7X

7 years ago
If you had asked me a year ago if you could buy a decent smartphone for $300, I would have told you to spend a couple of extra hundred dollars and buy yourself a high-end ...
Automotive

Can We Use The New Driving License Abroad?

7 years ago
Biometric driving licenses were introduced a year ago and they’re relatively easy to acquire. All you need to do is go to the “Nef3a” with a passport photo, a copy of your ID and your ...
Baladi

Dutch Ambassador Jan Waltmans Joins Eves on Wheels for a Bike Ride in Tripoli Mina

7 years ago
What began as a simple photography project to celebrate women and their bicycles in Tripoli has turned into frequent bike rides around Lebanon, and a regular call to celebrate life with women on bikes. The ...
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