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Najib
Dec 29, 2015 08:55
The Lebanese people are among the most resilient in the world. We survived a 15-year long civil war, over 20 bombings and assassinations between 2005 and 2012 and over 10 suicide bombings in the past three years. We held against the Israelis in several wars, we kept ISIS out of our country and defeated several terrorist groups, we defied the Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Ottomans and everyone who stood in our way, but…
Posted By
Najib
Dec 29, 2015 09:41
#NERD16 is an open nationwide tournament that is hosted at AUB on March 2016 and the biggest robotics tournament in Lebanon. This year marks the sixth edition of NERD and it will feature more competitions and challenges than the previous years. Moreover, this year's theme "Robots for Nature" is related to our current situation and the robotics challenges are about waste management and environmental issues. I guess this is a good opportunity to figure out…
Posted By
Najib
Dec 28, 2015 10:10
Grégoire Haddad was a bishop and at some point Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Jbeil, yet he believed in secularism, was among the first to strike his religious affiliations from his civil records and supported civil marriage. He believed that the idea of a civil marriage is harder to apprehend among the Christians because Christian figures "feared loss of power and money" and asked Lebanese to fight for this idea.…
Posted By
Najib
Dec 28, 2015 08:58
has just published this morning its blogging statistics and awards for 2015 and BlogBaladi emerged as Lebanon's Most Influential Blog of 2015, also known as Lebanon's Blog of the year which is awesome news! What I love about these statistics is that they are not based on subjective opinions, but on hard data gathered and analyzed from the thousands of posts that were published and indexed this year, and I thank Mustapha for going through…
Events
10 years ago
via Siestke New Year’s Eve is 4 days away and I’m sure a lot of people didn’t decide on what to do yet, but it’s not too late unless you were planning to travel somewhere. ...
Humor
10 years ago
Sakkir el Dekkene ran a poll to determine the best Christmas gift for Lebanese politicians and 59% voted for a first class expulsion airline ticket (Rawou7a bala Raj3a). As a result, Dekkene decided to visit ...
Personal
10 years ago
The most wonderful time of year became even more wonderful this year with Baby Brian around. I’ve been reading tips and tricks on how to make his first Christmas a special one but the truth ...
Lebanon
10 years ago
#Christmas at Dhour Choueir – via OnTime Photography Here are selected pictures from Christmas tree and decoration from around Lebanon. I included malls that I visited as well since they usually have the best Christmas ...
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