Critiques

After “Lightyear”, Lebanese General Security Bans “Minions: The Rise of Gru”

1 year ago
Lightyear, the prequel to Pixar’s Toy Story franchise, was banned in Lebanon back in June for featuring a brief kiss between a same-sex couple. 13 other Middle Easter and Asian countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, ...
Critiques

Five Reasons Why Lockdowns are Failing in Lebanon

3 years ago
Let me start but saying that lockdowns in most countries around the world have turned into failed experiments, but quite often helped these same countries in planning the re-opening phase or implementing a second lockdown, ...
Critiques

Diab Government Continues Selective, Yet Useless, Lockdown

3 years ago
If you want more proof that this resigned government is managing miserably the COVID-19 pandemic, the Interior Ministry just announced a renewed selective lockdown of 169 villages and towns for one week starting Monday. At ...
Critiques

Interior Ministry Planned Lockdown Will Only Make Things Worse

3 years ago
Lebanon’s Interior Ministry announced yesterday a weeklong lockdown of 111 towns and villages across the country due to a high number of coronavirus infections. The decision was taken based on the numbers provided by the ...
Critiques

The Lebanese Authorities Have No Idea What’s Happening At The Beirut Port, & Couldn’t Care Less

3 years ago
A massive explosion in August 4, followed by a small fire and today’s massive fire almost a month later. How can one be so incompetent? so negligent? so stupid? They had over a month to ...
Critiques

Why do Lebanese Keep Voting for the Same People Over & Over Again?

6 years ago
The only good thing about the new electoral law is that it’s truly showing every party’s true colors. Even though the law was handcrafted by those in power, the fact that they’re not used to ...
Critiques

When Trashing Each Other and Spreading Hate Become a Trend

6 years ago
I barely commented on what happened in the past week, from Murr’s controversial comments on MTV’s high advertising rates and audience, to MTV reporting videos & posts bashing them on Facebook and the reactions that ...
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Banning “Burkinis” From The Beach is Wrong

6 years ago
Yesterday, a woman called Noura posted on her Facebook that she headed with her family to a beach resort in the North called Miramar and kept being asked not to swim. She stated the the ...
Critiques

What Justice For Roy Hamoush?

6 years ago
Every time an innocent person gets killed by armed thugs, whether at a night club or on the road or even by accident, we start asking for justice and condemn the state of lawlessness that ...
Critiques

Stop Hating on The Girls From LBC’s “Take Me Out” Show

7 years ago
Back when “Take me out” (“Na2ashit”) had just started on LBC, I posted on how I hated the show and that it’s stupid and demeaning but that we should keep in mind that these men ...
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