#PanamaPapers: Biggest Leak In History On Corruption & No Lebanese Listed .. Yet

If you haven't been following up on the #PanamaPapers leak then you are missing out on what could possibly be the biggest-ever leak of secret information. Almost 11.5m documents, 2.6 terabytes of information related to 214,000 offshore companies were drawn from Mossack Fonseca’s internal database. Mossack Fonseca is a Panama-based law firm whose services include incorporating companies in offshore jurisdictions such as the British Virgin Islands. Offshore business is entirely legal but can also be…

New York-based Restaurant ilili: First Lebanese Restaurant To Receive The 5-Star Diamond Award

This is the first time I heard about that restaurant to be honest as I've never been to New York and the news may be a bit old but it's definitely worth sharing especially that it got featured last week on Kalam Ennas. ilili is apparently Sofia Vergara's favorite NY restaurant ilili, which means "tell me" in colloquial Lebanese, is a Lebanese Restaurant founded and managed by Phillipe Massoud who's also the executive chef. ilili…

Updated: Weird Protest Near Nahr el Mot Bridge

via Darine Update : Expect to see more people with wooden boxes on their heads tomorrow on the Dora Pedestrian Bridge starting 2:00 p.m. Those behind the project released a teaser video today that I'm sharing below. Everyone is invited to take part in their experiment for the next 2 weeks. I doubt that I can make it tomorrow but I'm eager to see what this is about! They had no signs or banners and…
Lebanon

Maameltein Sex Ring: Victims Recount Horrific Stories of Rape, Abuse & Torture

9 years ago
The Lebanese security forces dismantled yesterday the country’s largest known sex trafficking ring that was operating in Maameltein, a neighborhood in Jounieh also considered as Lebanon’s red-light district. The police freed around 75 Syrian female ...
Humor

Lebanese Dream Of High Speed Internet

9 years ago
via @haidcar The above table was being shared yesterday as an April Fools’ joke. I have no idea whether it’s all fabricated or inspired from the 2020 plan announced by the MOT, but what’s sure ...
Critiques

Saudi-Owned Daily Asharq al-Awsat Removed The Disrespectful Lebanon Cartoon

9 years ago
Caricature published in the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper “April Fools… the Lebanese state” Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat angered Lebanese after it published a caricature earlier today depicting the Lebanese state as an April Fools’ joke. ...
Beirut

Snapchat’s Beirut Story: AUB, National Anthem, AUB, Ain el Mreisse, National Anthem, Fattit Shrimps

9 years ago
Snapchat has been featuring towns and cities as part of the “Life” Snapchat Stories and Beirut got its own Life Snapchat Story yesterday. Life stories are prepared by Snapchat and are basically a compilation of ...
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