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Najib
Jan 22, 2018 09:50
Tim Cook and the world's youngest Nobel Peace Prizer winner Malala Yousafzai were in Beirut this Saturday to launch a partnership aimed at getting 100,000 girls into education in places including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey and Nigeria. Malala & Cook sat for an in-depth discussion with The Independent in Beirut on Saturday but I'm not sure where he stayed exactly. Malala visited Beirut back in 2015 to open a school for Syrian refugees. Let's hope…
Posted By
Najib
Jan 21, 2018 09:57
A few weeks ago, Raising Cane's finally opened in Beirut's The Spot Choueifat Mall, so I went down to try it out last Saturday. To be completely honest, I wasn't too familiar with the brand until my brother who lives in the US sent me a photo of them having lunch at a Raising Cane's there. I then remember seeing an article on Business Insider where it was voted one on of the top restaurant…
Posted By
Najib
Jan 21, 2018 08:00
Lebanese fathers are currently entitled to one paternity day while maternity leave was extended to 70 days a couple of years ago. The government has recently approved extending the paternity leave to three days but it still needs to be approved in the parliament. This is definitely an improvement but it's still not enough, and should be at least a couple of weeks in my opinion. The first few weeks after a baby is born…
Posted By
Najib
Jan 20, 2018 08:57
Lebanon has scored for years now the lowest rates in terms of women political empowerment and I'm not expecting a major change in the upcoming elections simply because there's no willingness from most political parties to promote the role of women in Lebanese politics but any improvement on the current number will be more than welcome. The last three governments only had two female ministers and the current Lebanese parliament has four women out of…
Critiques
8 years ago
A picture and a video are being circulated today showing the Burj Hammoud landfill being swamped by rising waters. The authorities have been dumping the whole garbage mountain into the sea for months now and ...
Fun
8 years ago
This year seems to be a repeat of 2014 when it barely snowed and ski resorts were closed most of the time. Mzaar Ski resort has announced that it’s doing its best to open the ...
Fun
8 years ago
The last thing you’d expect during an armed bank robbery is for an employee to stand up to the thieves and try to talk them out of it. Masked armed men robbed the Lebanese Swiss ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Fire Fighters have old fire trucks, old equipment, no substances to fight the fires and sometimes barely any water. They are not properly funded nor trained to do their work and the government has yet ...
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