Posted By
Najib
Oct 08, 2017 08:00
Every AUB student is familiar with Maryam Ghandour's emails. Dr. Ghandour has been the head of the Career and Placement Services in the Office of Student Affairs at the American University of Beirut for as long as I can remember. She's been relentlessly helping AUB graduates locate and secure their first professional jobs and has been organizing successful job fair exhibitions year after year despite the unstable political situation. Her job is a very tough…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 07, 2017 09:05
I've been hearing about these Tucano aircrafts since 2014 but the Lebanese Army still didn't get any of them. Al Jomhouriya is claiming we will get two aircrafts before end of this month and LBCI also did a report back in August about them. The A-29 Super Tucano "is a turboprop light attack aircraft designed for counter-insurgency, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance missions in low-threat environments, as well as providing pilot training". Several Lebanese…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 07, 2017 11:01
Fiber optics has become a reality in certain areas of Beirut and in smart cities like Beit Misk, but it's still a far-fetched plan to have it all across Lebanon. The reason why it was still far-fetched is not simply outdated infrastructure but no budget approval from the Lebanese government for Ogero's new management to kick off the FTTC project. All that changed yesterday though when the government approved a 150 billion Lebanese Pounds advance…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 06, 2017 10:00
When you have to go, you have to go even if this means parking your car on the highway's fast lane and peeing in the middle of the day. At least that's what this man thought he could go but TMC cameras caught him and fined him. Funnily enough, some people were defending his actions stating that he might have a medical condition and had to go, because endangering other people's lives is fine if…
Critiques
8 years ago
Since we’re talking about powerful Lebanese women, here’s one who actually lives in Lebanon and is defying all odds to make a difference in society. She’s a ferocious critic of sexism, a staunch defender of ...
Information
8 years ago
Twelve Lebanese made it to the Forbes Top 100 Most powerful Arab businesswomen this year, and five of them were named among the world’s 10 most powerful Arab Women. However, all five of them almost ...
Lebanon
8 years ago
I found this article on Lebanon’s richest athletes and it says it’s based on the Forbes list but I couldn’t find anything on the Forbes website. In fact, Lebanon is not even in the 21 ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Major Suzan Hajj Hobeiche is no longer the head of the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau as she was re-assigned (or forced to quit?) presumably for ‘liking’ an anti-Saudi Arabia tweet by Comedian Charbel Khalil. ...
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