Two Lebanese Athletes Competing at The 2016 WKU World Championship Kickboxing

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 September 27th. Maroun has already won gold at the Lebanese and Asian Championships. Jennifer, who's a basketball player as well, will be competing in the semi-contact category on September 27th. I tried looking for their names and the exact schedule…

Google Helping The Clooney Foundation for Justice To Educate Refugee Children in #Lebanon

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 as Virgin Unite and The Radcliffe Foundation, to empower this lost generation and they're aiming to enroll 10,000 refugee children by next September and 50,000 more by 2018. The Clooneys are currently working with SABIS and are planning to launch…

When Will People Stop Blocking Roads in This Country?

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 ones who were suffering were drivers who had nothing to do with it. Shutting down roads to protest should be a crime punishable by law, especially when done during peak traffic hours. There are far better ways to get people's…

Sabrina Sato in #Beirut

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 I know about her is because a Lebanese-Brazilian friend of mine told me about her a couple of years back when she started her own show and how she's 1/4 Lebanese, not that it really matters. According to her page,…
Automotive

Few Thoughts on The Upcoming Beirut Grand Prix Event

9 years ago
Several people have been asking me about the upcoming Beirut Grand Prix, and why I haven’t written anything about it yet, especially given that I love cars and auto racing events. Honestly, I’ve been meaning ...
Critiques

Amal Clooney is Taking ISIS to Trial

9 years ago
While the world is still making excuses for not fighting ISIS, and the UN is condemning ISIS in fancy press conferences while awarding contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to criminal regimes as part ...
Critiques

Human Rights Watch Response To Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Over Discriminatory Nationality Law

9 years ago
Human Rights Watch issued a statement to respond to Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil’s controversial tweet on the nationality law and stated that the foreign minister’s remarks “undermine efforts to reform a discriminatory nationality law that ...
Fun

Alfa and Touch New Reduced Mobile Internet Prices

9 years ago
As expected, Alfa and Touch announced today their new reduced prices on Mobile Internet and Mobile Broadband bundles. The decrease in prices starts from 10% up to 40% on certain bundles. Here are the new ...
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