Beirut Airport Expansion Planned To Accommodate An Additional 5 Million Passengers

The airport was originally built in 1992 to accommodate 6 million passengers and obviously need a whole revamp, not just an expansion plan. However the real problem is not only in the airport's capacity but in its mismanagement. From the lack of seatings in the duty free, to the boarding fiasco, outrageously expensive restaurants, filthy toilets, incompetent staff, lack of proper WIFI, the taxi jungle and the traffic around it, there are tons of stuff…

Video Showing the Middle East’s Oldest Brewery Getting Demolished

The Laziza brewery , which was established in the early 1930s and closed in 2003 got demolished a couple of days ago to make way for a new project called “Mar Mikhael Village” by Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury. Activists have been fighting for months to delay the demolition and turning the old brewery into a historic community space but unfortunately, the brewery is now gone. Here are few pictures from the brewery taken few months…

Meet Rabih el Jammal: The First Lebanese Blind person to Run the Beirut Marathon

You obviously have to be extremely fit to run a marathon; you need stamina, endurance, months of training and obviously you need vision. You should be able to see the finish line behind the hills, the buildings, the asphalt, the road that just stretches under your feet, but that didn't stop Rabih, who has been blind since age 16, from joining the Beirut Marathon this year and be the first ever Lebanese blind person to…

It’s Thyme to Celebrate #WorldMankoushehDay

What we decide to eat for breakfast varies greatly from one country to the other and from one person to the other, but I believe the majority of Lebanese agree that nothing tops a Mankousheh for breakfast, especially a Zaatar Mankousheh with some Labneh, tomatoes, cucumbers and olives on the side. Mankoushe is our speciality and Zaatar W Zeit has decided to declare November 2 #WorldMankoushehDay and is inviting everyone to celebrate our heritage and…
Critiques

Dumping Burj Hammoud’s Mountain Garbage into the Sea still Ongoing

8 years ago
The Burj Hammoud garbage mountain is being slowly dumped into the sea and no one’s doing anything to stop this catastrophe. In fact, there’s barely any mention of it on the news and it appears ...
Advertising

Halloween Ads [2017]

8 years ago
I didn’t find that many Halloween ads out there this year but there are some pretty cool ones that I’m sharing here. Al Rifai iFlix decided to pull a Halloween prank by scaring people off ...
Fun

Whatsapp Lets you Unsend Messages Now!

8 years ago
Whatsapp has finally released its long-awaited feature allowing users to delete messages after they’ve been sent. The new option allows you to “delete messages for everyone” in a chat within seven minutes of sending it. ...
Baladi

Lebanese Fouad Maksoud Receives Highest Score in #StarsOfScience History!

8 years ago
25-year old AUB Alumunus Fouad Maksoud is representing Lebanon in the Stars of Science show and sharing his expertise in nano-medicine. Maksoud graduated with a master’s degree from the Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture ...
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