Ray Bassil, The World’s No1 Female Trap Shooter, is Targeting Lebanon’s First Olympic Gold

Photo Credits: CNN Update: Ray didn't qualify to the semi-finals but improved on her previous performance. She'll get that medal in 2020. Third time's the charm :) Ray Bassil had a rather disappointing Olympic debut four years ago in London but she's been training hard ever since, earning medal after medal and cup after cup and climbing to the top of the Trap Shooting World Rankings. Ray Bassil is today the world's #1 female trap…

#Rio2016: Lebanon’s Population is 6.2 Million According to NBC

The 2016 Olympic Games were formally opened in a beautiful ceremony earlier today and were broadcasted to an estimated audience of three billion. These are the first ever Olympics to be held in South America and more than 200 teams are taking part in these games among them the Lebanese team of course. I missed the opening ceremony this morning but a friend sent me a screenshot showing the Lebanese team and how NBC displayed…

Aerial View of the Costa Brava Landfill

The Costa Brava landfill looks bad, it smells terrible and it's located at the worst place possible. People living next to the landfill should have been evacuated prior to its opening and proper measures should have been taken to contain the smell, which is worse than you could ever imagine. Also, setting up a landfill next to an airport poses a potential hazard to aircraft operations as it attracts birds and collisions with birds at…

Lebanese Competing At The Rio 2016 Olympics: Names + Full Schedule

There are nine Lebanese athletes competing in seven different sports at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics which kick off on Sunday. Mariana Sahakyan – Table tennis Ray Bassil – Shooting Chirine Njeim – Athletics Ahmad Hazer - Athletics Elias Nacif – Judo Anthony Barbar – Swimming Gabriella Doueihy – Swimming Mona Shaito – Fencing Richard Mourjan – Canoe Slalom Richard Mourjan – The First Lebanese Canoeist to take part in the Olympic Games The youngest…
Beirut

Beirut Municipality Wants to Ban Dogs On Sidewalks

9 years ago
Photo Credits: Achrafieh2020 Beirut’s Municipal Council met on Tuesday and issued a proposal to Beirut’s Governor Ziad Chbib to ban dogs, motorbikes and Arguile on all sidewalks on the Corniche Waterfront, as well as in ...
Social Media

Instagram Stories are Here! Bye Bye Snapchat?

9 years ago
I was never really fond of Snapchat but I’d force myself to use it from time to time simply because most of my friends are there and I had no other alternative to Snapchat’s My ...
Baladi

Nocturne In Black By Jimmy Keyrouz Among The 2016 Student Academy Awards Finalists

9 years ago
The official list of Student Academy Awards finalists is out and “Nocturne in Black” by Jimmy Keyrouz from Columbia University is among them. Jimmy Keyrouz is a New York based director and screenwriter. He completed ...
Critiques

There are No Streets Named After Fairouz or Saba7 in Lebanon

9 years ago
An article published on Raseef22 was discussing the lack of streets named after artists in the Arab world and pointed out that there are no streets named after Fairouz in Lebanon, or Saba7 for that ...
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