Antonov Airplane Crash in 1977 Over Aramoun Lebanon

I came across this story from 1977 on LebanonArchives' timeline and it was the first time I hear about it. An Antonov airplane departed from Varna carrying a crew of nine and tons of frozen meat on the 13th of May 1977, and was cleared for landing by the air traffic control in Beirut. However the plane struck high tension power cables on its way down and crashed over the town of Aramoun. All nine…

U.S. Sanctions Notorious Lebanese Drug Dealers Noah Zaaiter and Hassan Daqqou

The United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions today against six people, four Syrians and two Lebanese, for their role in the production or export of captagon, a dangerous amphetamine. The four Syrians include Assad's cousins Samer Kamal Al-Assad and Wassim Badi al-Assad as well as Walid Qaddour a Syrian businessman and a former commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army. The two Lebanese sanctioned are Noah Zaaiter and Hassan Daqqou who work…

Tintin au Liban (Full Issue)

A while back, I stumbled upon a short video depicting a Tintin au Liban parody edition. The video showed an English edition which seemingly was issued by the National Lampoon magazine, an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998 and was a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon. However, the only reference to this edition I could find were scanned copies of the full French edition, which is good enough for me :D I…

AI Generated Portraits for Lebanese Cities

Lebanese Photographer Fredy Chemaly shared AI generated portraits for Lebanese cities and the results are amazing and some quite accurate. The pictures shared below are respectively for Zahle, Tripoli, Chouf, Broumanna and Batroun. You can check out the rest like Kobayat, Tyre, Jounieh, Nabatieh, Beirut and others .
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Lebanon Was Not Given a Deadline by The IMF To Implement Reforms

2 years ago
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund concluded its visit to Lebanon on March 23 and issued a statement summing up its mission & pointing out the parties responsible for hindering financial recovery. These parties ...
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HSBC Appoints Lebanese Patrick George as Head of Markets & Security Services

2 years ago
Patrick George, a Lebanese expat and Concordia graduate, kicked off his banking career with a Lebanese private bank (FFA Private Bank) in 1994 before moving to HSBC in 1996 to manage the Emerging Markets Equities ...
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We Need a New Airport, Not a New Airport Terminal

2 years ago
The Minister of Public Works & Transport announced on Twitter yesterday plans to build a new terminal at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport with a foreign investment of $122 million, noting that no expansion plans ...
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World Happiness Report 2023: Lebanon & Afghanistan at the Bottom

2 years ago
The World Happiness Report released its annual ranking of the happiest & unhappiest countries in the world and Lebanon was ranked at the bottom along with Afghanistan. The report uses six key factors to measure ...
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