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Najib
Sep 25, 2016 02:01
Lebanon's Health Minister Wael Abou Faour was overheard questioning Mauritania's ability to host top delegations back in July, and his comments "triggered a spat between Lebanon and Mauritania, where Lebanese officials were attacked by journalists and on social media". He did later on deny insulting Mauritania in any way but that didn't stop a local TV there from bashing our politicians and giving two convincing reasons for which the Lebanese delegation did not stay in…
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Najib
Sep 24, 2016 11:09
Skoun, a Lebanese Addictions Center, has launched its "Know Your Rights campaign in order to "empower, educate and shed the light on the harms caused by punitive drug control in Lebanon". Lebanese shouldn't be afraid of going to a police station, they shouldn't be detained illegally and suspicion and profiling should never constitute enough evidence to arrest someone. Police should not treat drug addicts as criminals, especially the young ones, and they must work with…
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Najib
Sep 23, 2016 04:38
The Ghosties Awards were organized yesterday in the W Hotel Leicester Square in London and Lebanese Georgio Bassil won the Snapchat Artist of the Year award. The Ghosties, organized by Snaphappen, is the World's first Snapchat Awards "highlighting the biggest and best in the Snapchat game, from storytellers, news reporters to the brands using the platform as a marketing tool". The Ghosties are not endorsed or affiliated by Snapchat but it's still a pretty cool…
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Najib
Sep 23, 2016 09:44
This is a very long article but a very insightful one that I recommend you read. It makes you rethink the world around you and more specifically the online bubble that we are living in. The article is entitled "I Used to Be a Human Being: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too." Here are few excerpts but I…
Baladi
9 years ago
Maroun Abboud & Jennifer Nehmeh are representing Lebanon this year at the WKU World Championship Kickboxing. Maroun is 24 years old and will compete in two categories: Light contact on September 26th and semi-contact on ...
Baladi
9 years ago
Georges and Amal Clooney are launching an initiative through “The Clooney Foundation for Justice” to help the 250,000+ refugee children in Lebanon who are not in school. They are getting support from Google, as well ...
Critiques
9 years ago
I have yet to find a convincing reason for blocking main roads and highways to protest. Truck drivers were causing a huge traffic today in Dora and Beirut because of their protest and the only ...
Fashion
9 years ago
You’ve probably never heard of Sabrina Sato but she’s very well known in Brazil and has a very popular show. I was checking her Instagram and she has like 9 million followers. The only reason ...
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