5 Cool Things From Apple’s WWDC16

Apple announced a series of new features and updates across its 4 platforms: MacOS, iOS, WatchOS and TVOS. Here are the 5 things that I liked best: 1- Swift Playground Apple introduced Swift Playground, a free iPad app that teaches kids how to code. It is fun and intuitive using game like lessons to make learning code seem easy. 2- Calls, Messages and Emojis You can now receive voice and video calls from third party apps to…

Verdun Bombing Update: Canadian Embassy Denies Sending Any Security Instruction

Few minutes after the unfortunate Verdun bombing occurred yesterday night, everyone started sharing a security instruction supposedly sent by the Canadian Embassy and the UN to their staff "warning them to stay away from all Beirut restaurants, avoid going to Beirut and in particular avoid visiting Hamra areas". I asked some Lebanese-Canadian friends I know and none of them got the message. I also checked their website and didn't find anything. It turned out to…

Breakfast at Furn el Sabaya: Home-Made, Delicious & Clean

I've been meaning to visit this small bakery for quite some time but I never got the chance to do so. However on Sunday, Brian woke up early and everyone was still asleep, so I took him for a ride all the way to Amchit and decided to drop by Furn el Sabaya to pick up breakfast. Brian waiting for his man2oushe Furn el Sabaya opens every day from 7:30 AM till 2 PM and…

Eight Lebanese Competing At The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics

Richard Mourjan - The First Lebanese Canoeist to take part in the Olympic Games Rio is the proud host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Lebanon is represented by 8 athletes this year covering seven different sports: Mariana Sahakyan – Table tennis Ray Bassil – Shooting Chirine Njeim – Marathon Elias Nacif – Judo Anthony Barbar – Swimming Gabrielle Doueihy – Swimming Mona Shaito – Fencing Richard Mourjan – Canoe Lebanon has only missed 1…
Lebanon

Save The Ba2douniss

9 years ago
This is a hilarious animation video but the message it is trying to pass is not funny at all. In fact, it reflects perfectly the sad truth we are living in: that climate change is ...
Business

Four Lebanese Banks Among Forbes’ Top 100 Arab Companies Of 2016

9 years ago
The 2016 Forbes list of the Top 100 Arab Companies 2016 is out and four Lebanese banks made the list. To rank the top 100, Forbes started with 1,316 publicly-traded companies from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, ...
Health

A Report On The Beach Water Quality Along Lebanon’s Coast

9 years ago
Tripoli Beaches – Photo Credits: Souad Sbaiti This is a follow-up on a post I wrote back in April. A sea water monitoring study was conducted by the National Center for Marine Sciences (I had ...
Critiques

They Are Building a Hospital Near Horsh Beirut!

9 years ago
via Nahnoo Horsh Beirut was closed to the public for more than 20 years by the Beirut Municipality for fear of vandalism and poor maintenance, and due to the lack of resources to protect the ...
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