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Najib
Oct 05, 2017 10:40
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 countries they selected to come up with the world's highest-paid athletes list. Five out of the top 10 richest athletes listed are football players, two of them are basketball players, there's one rugby player, one rally driver and Lebanese explorer…
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Najib
Oct 05, 2017 09:34
Major Suzan Hajj Hobeiche is no longer the head of the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau as she was re-assigned presumably for ‘liking’ an anti-Saudi Arabia tweet by Comedian Charbel Khalil. According to reports, liking this tweet was the tip of the iceberg after she had received several warnings over expressing her political views and opinions online. The new head of the bureau is Albert Khoury. To be honest, I thought Charbel Khalil's tweet was…
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Najib
Oct 04, 2017 10:23
Famous American trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, who's considered as one of the finest jazz musicians of all time, apparently visited Beirut in 1959 and performed at the UNESCO Theater. Armstrong was on a Middle East and visited Egypt as well where he was apparently accused by local papers of leading an Israeli spy network. The US was sending artists like Armstrong back then on cultural diplomacy initiatives around the world to counter the Soviet…
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Najib
Oct 04, 2017 09:33
Corruption, match-fixing, attacking referees, tricking young players, mismanagement and disgusting sectarian fans. That's not what football is about and that's why football is doomed in Lebanon. I wish I could share MTV's optimism in promoting the league and offering a better coverage but I've lost hope a while back in this sport in Lebanon.
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8 years ago
If you’re a non-resident Lebanese who’s eligible to vote in the upcoming Lebanese elections, you only have 47 days left to register on the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s website. You can also access the mobile ...
Sports
8 years ago
We have a new team in this year’s Lebanese Basketball season top-division: “Beirut Club”. The team was promoted to the top division along with Antonieh this year and is proving to be a title-contender after ...
Architecture
8 years ago
The new US Embassy in Lebanon will remain in Awkar and will be built over an area of 174,000 square meters at a cost of around $1 billion. They practically bought the whole mountain on ...
Health
8 years ago
Every year, during Ashoura, Who is Hussain? and Donner Sang Compter Lebanon team up to organize a blood donation campaign to encourage those who commemorate Ashoura to “give blood for those who need it most ...
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