Stop Sharing This Christmas Street Decoration Video, It’s in Malaga not Beirut

I've seen the below video being shared at least 10 or 12 times with captions such as "Rue Foch", "Christmas in Lebanon", "This is Lebanon" etc. Unfortunately, this is not in Rue Fosh in Beirut, but in Malaga Spain. Let's pretend for a second that the street and the buildings resemble the ones in Fosh street, which is not the case. Do you really expect Beirut municipality to pull out such a Christmas decoration when…

A Bunch of Awesome & Untouched Shots Taken With the Huawei P9 Dual-Lens Leica Camera

The Huawei P9 smartphone is all about the camera. It's decent looking phone with a rather sluggish software but its Leica-branded dual-lens camera is one of the best I've seen so far and makes the P9 worth every penny. For those who are not familiar with Leica, it's a camera brand that "was founded on a long tradition of excellence in the construction of lenses and optical devices" and it has teamed up with Huawei…

#BlogWaladi: Baby Brian’s #SaintBerbara Costumes

We were celebrating the Saint Berbara this weekend and the tradition says that we should dress up in costumes and visit family, friends and neighbors to wish them well. The tradition also involves singing Berbara songs, growing and eating sweetened wheat as well as Atayef. Last year, we struggled to find Brian a nice costume and this year is no different. Most of the shops I visited sell the same cheap, low-quality and most of…

Attaché: A 17 Minutes #Beirut Travel Guide

"You've seen the news, you've read the foreign office state department advisories, the warnings are stark, the language is unambiguous, come to Beirut at your own risk". It took the people behind Attaché months to put together their Beirut episode but it's totally worth it and it's a job well done to say the least! I'd say it's a great video if you are visiting Beirut and staying in Mar Mikhail or Hamra. Armenian Lahm…
Baladi

A Commemorative Stamp to mark AUB’s 150th Anniversary

9 years ago
The American University of Beirut is celebrating its 150th anniversary and Libanpost, in collaboration with the Ministry of Telecommunications, has issued a stamp to mark this special anniversary and in recognition of the university’s pioneering ...
Critiques

Fairouz Songs Banned At the Lebanese University – Hadath

9 years ago
A group of LU students decided to honor their friend who recently died in a car crash so they invited his mom and wanted to play Fairouz songs in the university since he loves Fairouz ...
Fun

700,000 Lebanese Expats Flying Back Home for the Holidays?

9 years ago
I read in the papers that 700,000 are expected to fly back to Lebanon for the holidays and overheard from a couple of friends that the Ministry of Tourism is expecting huge numbers based on ...
Animals & Wildlife

Rare Species Spotted off Lebanon coast

9 years ago
Following a month-long expedition that took place between October and November 2016 using an underwater robot, Oceana and Lebanese scientists released a video showing strange species spotted off the Lebanese coast. The video is breath-taking ...
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