Did Anyone Laugh at The SNL Video on Lebanon’s Sexist Taxi Driver?

Saturday Night Life bil 3arabi has some pretty hilarious videos but that's definitely not one of them. Put aside how badly it's portraying Lebanese women, I just didn't get what's so funny about it and what they're trying to really say. The hot fake-blonde woman is cheating on her husband and the only thing annoying him is that she's working as a taxi driver and picking up men? And the two passengers acting like they've…

#SorryIDrowned: A 6-minute Poignant Film by Médecins Sans Frontières

The estimated death toll among migrants in the Mediterranean reached at least 5,000 last year, a new high according to UN agencies. Unfortunately, this is not stopping hundreds of thousands of people, including many from Tripoli, fleeing war and despair from trying to reach Europe illegally. More than 20,000 people were rescued last year by Médecins Sans Frontières . I shared the full film below. It is worth noting that the words in the film…

Beirut Cultural Festivals 2017: An Unprecedented Journey into the Story of Beirut

Beirut Cultural Festivals is the best thing that came to Beirut last year. Beirut were in dire need of a grandiose spectacle that serves its history right and match its modern and busy life. Last year's festivals which kicked off in their first edition were nothing less than spectacular. In brief, they begun with a wonderful 3D mapping production projecting the story of Beirut under a large dome to hundreds of spectators followed by a…

Is The New Traffic Law Working? A new Video That Sums it all Up

The Traffic Management Center in Lebanon shared a video showing a van crossing the highway from one way to the other and stopping on the fast lane to pick up passengers who met him half way by crossing the highway since there's no pedestrian bridge around. Of course I'm glad they caught the guy and that they will fine him , but you don't really need cameras to stop these vans. They break the law…
Movies & Television

Movie Review: Wonder Woman [2017]

8 years ago
I’m reading all these reviews online and it’s quite shocking to see Wonder Woman get 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, while Batman vs. Superman only got 28%. Here’s a quick review of the movie written by ...
Fun

Epic Mawtoura D’or Awards 2017

8 years ago
Mawtoura has outdone herself this year with the Mawtoura D’or. That’s the funniest thing I’ve watched in quite some time. It’s witty, hilarious and spot-on. Awesome work! Ragheb, Laila Abdel Latif, Nadi & Jumblatt cracked ...
Health

Lebanon the Third Biggest Consumer of Cigarettes WorldWide?

8 years ago
The Independent released a map showing the average number of cigarettes per person, per year in every country where Lebanon came out third, after China (11-12 cigarettes a day) and Belarus (10-11 cigarettes a day). ...
Fun

Wonder Woman is Not Getting Banned in Lebanon (Yet)

8 years ago
We were at the special screening of Wonder Woman last night at Vox Cinemas when I was told by a friend that they might be banning the movie in Lebanon because the lead actress Gal ...
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