If You Can’t Handle Criticism, Please Don’t Criticize Others

Le destin du Liban est tributaire de celui de la liberte de ses medias. L'existence du Liban est tributaire de sa liberte A lot of Lebanese cannot handle criticism without feeling hurt, defensive or angry. Whether it's constructive criticism, satire or mockery, a lot of people feel offended by the comments made on politicians, religious leaders, actors, or on Lebanese as a whole. Every time a leader or a religious figure is insulted, we see…

Police Certificate Costs At Least 500% More With LibanPost

I needed a police certificate for my wife and I last week so I called LibanPost to see if they can deliver it quickly enough. After several attempts to get someone on the phone, the operator told me that the police certificate costs 13,000 and that I have to pay an extra 15,000 to have it delivered, so a total of 28,000 for this piece of paper. Moreover, since this is a police record, you…

Lebanese Expats are Being Punished By The Lebanese State, not Saudi Arabia

via AlAraby Saudi Arabia decided to freeze the delivery of nearly $4 billion of grants to Lebanon last week, then it warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon, followed by Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. Next thing you know, there are reports of Lebanese working in Saudi Arabia getting sacked for their alleged links to Hezbollah. None of the reports of Lebanese families getting deported were confirmed but it happened before and…
Society

KAFA’s Social Experiment Reproduced in New York: When an Old Man Marries A 12 Year Old Girl

10 years ago
Source: DailyMail YouTube star Coby Persin brought a 65-year-old ‘groom’ and his 12-year-old ‘bride’ into Times Square in New York to stage a photoshoot. The aim was to raise awareness around the issue of child ...
Humor

Five Ways To Make Use of Beirut’s River Of Trash

10 years ago
1- Open the first bobsleigh track in the Middle East and bid for the Winter Olympics (Thanks Farid) 2- Put the garbage bags on both sides to promote road safety and use them as safety ...
Humor

The Zbelification of Lebanon at New York’s UNDP Conference on Environment

10 years ago
Celebrating The Chinese Year Of The Snake – The Largest Snake-shaped Garbage in the world It looks like our Environment Minister is on his way to New York to take part in the UNDP Conference ...
Humor

The Only Petition I am Signing

10 years ago
by AlAnhar Here’s how we can solve the garbage crisis in Lebanon: Ask Saudi Arabia to halt all sorts of aids to Lebanon and reconsider their relations with our country until the garbage crisis is ...
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