Creative Space Beirut: Beirut’s First Free Fashion School is Breaking Barriers & Offering Quality Education

I never had the chance to write about Creative Space Beirut but they've just been featured on Ozy so I thought this would be a nice opportunity to shed the light on this beautiful and inspiring initiative that was started back in 2011 by Parsons graduate, Sarah Hermez, and her former Parsons professor, Caroline Simonelli and they've just graduated their first class of designs in Fall 2016. What is Creative Space Beirut? CSB is a…

A Random “Amir el Leil” Question

I did try a couple of times to watch Amir el Leil but just like all Lebanese TV series, I didn't last longer than 10 minutes . Still, one thing caught my attention while seeing the credits for the show that I thought is worth sharing. There are over 40 filming locations cited in the credits, including 3 castles, 5 villas, 8 resorts, hotels & beaches and tens of houses! Isn't that a lot? Why…

Why Is BeirutNationalMuseum.com Sponsored by An Egyptian Company?

It has been brought to my attention that BeirutNationalMuseum.com is maintained by an Egyptian company called El Motaheda and sponsored by mashy.com, which is an Egyptian news portal. I doubt that this is the official website, as the one I'm aware of is Beirutnationalmuseum.org but the .com website is the one that comes out on top of the Google searches so this needs to be fixed. Someone should inform the Ministry of Culture & Tourism…

Costa Coffee’s Would-be Suicide Bomber The Dumbest Ever?

Almost everyone hailed the collaborative efforts between the Lebanese army and the ISF that led to foiling the Costa Coffee attempt on Saturday but a lot of people are raising doubts about this whole incident following the would-be suicide bomber's testimony and official statements. To be honest, I'm not really sure how half the Lebanese population became all of a sudden geopolitical counter-terrorism experts but there's nothing really to question when the army and security…
Fun

Trump Vs Obama Crowds Remind Me of M14 vs M8 Protests

8 years ago
I never thought I’d see the day where US media is busy debating whether Trump attracted more crowds to his inauguration than Obama did in 2009. They are comparing crowds by examining aerial shots, metro ...
Food

Tanoreen’s Knafeh

8 years ago
Tanoreen, a popular Middle-Eastern restaurant based in Brooklyn and run by Palestinian-American chef Rawia Bishara, was featured in last week’s edition of the Explorers and the highlight of the visit was Rawia’s homemade Knafe, which ...
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Al Rifai’s Epic Take on Donald Trump’s Inauguration

8 years ago
Donald Trump inauguration sparked a new wave of memes, tweets and jokes on social media and Al Rifai’s take is the best one I’ve seen so far in Lebanon. A friend sent me a copy ...
Critiques

Who’s Behind The Beqaa Kidnappings?

8 years ago
Armed gunmen kidnapped a 74 year old man called Saad Richa in Chtaura few days ago and they haven’t released him yet. Almost every political and religious party in Lebanon is trying to negotiate with ...
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