Check out the New Lebanese Driving License

I wrote about the new biometric driving licenses a year ago but yesterday was the first time I see one of them, probably because the existing ones need 30 years to expire. Anyway, the new one is much smaller and wallet-friendly which is pretty awesome. Cost-wise, my friend asked someone to do it for him and the whole thing cost him 110,000LL so I assume it should cost less than that if you do it…

Present-day Lebanese Descendants of Biblical Canaanites

A recent paper entitled "Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences" has proven that more "than 90 percent of the genetic ancestry of modern Lebanese is derived from ancient Canaanites", whereas researchers were able to "sequence the Canaanite genome from the remains of five individuals buried in the ancient port city of Sidon around 3,700 years ago" and then compare the results against…

iflix Launches in #Lebanon

The Asian-based video-on-demand service iflix has officially launched in Beirut last week and Lebanese users can already sign-up for a 30-day trial. For those of you who are not familiar with the service, Iflix was founded back in 2014 and while it's very similar to Netflix in terms of features, it has a different offering and gives you access to thousands of the world’s best TV shows and movies that are not available on Netflix,…
Fun

Hariri-Trump Handshake

8 years ago
I wasn’t really hoping for anything positive to come out of the Trump-Hariri meeting yesterday but I tuned in to see how the handshake goes and our PM did not disappoint or maybe Trump didn’t ...
Critiques

Public Sector & Government Agencies to Close on Saturdays

8 years ago
The government approved a decision to change working hours for public sector employees to become 35 hours per week whereas Saturday will no longer be a working day. This means that the schedule will change ...
Beirut

Beirut’s Wall of Kindness Being Vandalized

8 years ago
I have no idea why anyone would do such a thing but the Wall of Kindness that was installed in Sodeco a month ago has been vandalized on three occasions now, forcing those who came ...
Fun

Alex Riachy Pulling 12-Ton Trucks with his Hair

8 years ago
I’m sure most of you have heard about Chamchoum. Well Alex Riachy is Chamcoum’s son, he’s well known for his superhuman stunts which include dragging trucks with his ponytail and breaking large rocks with his ...
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