Barcelona Stars in Beirut for Roda Antar’s Farewell Game

FC Barcelona stars Sergio Busquets, Gerard Piqué & Jordi Alba arrived to Beirut yesterday to take part in Roda Antar's farewell football game. Roda Antar is one of Lebanon's most successful football players and the all-time leading goal scorer for the Lebanese National team with 20 goals. More importantly, Antar is the only Lebanese professional football player to join a professional foreign team whereas he played for Hamburger SV for three seasons, before moving to…

For The Love of Zaatar (Thyme)

Here's a 6-minute short movie on Mohammad Ali Neimeh, the man who cultivates Lebanon's wild herb and who's a thyme passionate. Mohammad, also known as Abou Kassem, used to collect thyme from the fields and quite often get exposed to snipping and shelling by the Israeli Army during their occupation of South Lebanon. That's where he decided to take the seeds and plant them elsewhere. It took time, patience and dedication but he pulled it…

EDZ Strikes Again: Teta Samira’s Worst Nightmare

This is a hilarious new ad by EDZ showing the famous Teta having a nightmare about electricity cuts and a fridge full of rotten food because of a power outage. Unfortunately though, it may be funny now but the current Energy minister is not planning to renew EDZ's contract apparently. They should have put his face in the Teta's dream to send out a message LOL!

#BlogWaladi: Celebrating Brian’s Two Years in Pictures

It's true what they say that "Time flies when you're having fun". Brian has officially turned two on Saturday and the past 24 months have been tiring but thrilling, exciting and more importantly rewarding. Raising a kid is a tough task but we're enjoying *almost* every moment of it and I'm making sure I document every milestone he achieves and pretty much everything he does, whether it's smiling, crying, sleeping, pooping, peeing on us during…
Baladi

Beirut Planting Roofs

8 years ago
Beirut Planting Roofs is the latest experiment by Ziad Abichaker, The “Garbage King”, where he’s teaming up with the American University of Beirut to install vertical planters made out of Eco-board panels on a rooftop ...
Fun

From No Burkinis to Burkinis Allowed on Tuesdays Only

8 years ago
Following the latest Burkini controversy, a summer resort in Zgharta is now allowing veiled women wearing Burkinis to swim on Tuesdays only. When asked by one of the readers on why it’s only allowed on ...
Architecture

#Lifehaus: The First Self-Sufficient Project in the Middle East Coming to Baskinta

8 years ago
Lifehaus is the first low cost fully self-sufficient project in the Middle East that is designed to lower the carbon footprint ​using upcycled, local materials and ancestral techniques. The founder and architect behind LifeHaus is ...
Critiques

Lebanese Soldiers Fight off Terrorists & Suicide Bombers in Arsal

8 years ago
The Lebanese Army stormed two refugee camps in Arsal’s outskirts and managed to arrest and kill several terrorists. The operation wasn’t that easy as the first man they were looking for blew himself up, then ...
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