Meeting Ken Block + My Favorite Cars From The 2015 Dubai Motor Show

With Ken Block and Abdo Feghali Meeting Ken Block and the unveiling of Ford's all-new GT supercar at the Dubai Motor Show were the highlight of my trip to Dubai earlier this month. It was my first time at the Dubai Motor Show and I would definitely come back a second time. The whole experience with Ford & Lincoln was great, the events were pretty awesome and well-organized, the team was very helpful and the…

Europe’s Refugee Crisis In Comparison To Lebanon

We have 1.5 million refugees in a country of 4 million people. That's the equivalent of: - Germany hosting 20 million refugees. - America hosting 80 million refugees. We are all aware of the situation but it's very hard to compare the situation in Europe vs Lebanon. When Germany plans to welcome refugees, they allocate the needed resources to integrate them and naturalize them on the long run, while in Lebanon refugees came in because…

Did You Like YouStink’s Furn el Chebbak FlashMob?

A young pregnant woman was shopping in Furn el Chebbak, her water broke, people rush to help her out and she ends up giving birth to a .... garbage bag. The act was well executed and performed by #Tol3etRi7etkoun and they were able to shock and awe the bystanders but I didn't quite understand the idea to begin with. Giving birth to garbage bags? What does that even mean and how is it related to…

Joumblatt’s Post Won The Internet Yesterday

I laughed so hard at Joumblatt's "Jean-Blat Van Damme" tweet yesterday and at his tweets last week following Russia's drills in the Mediterranean that took Lebanon by surprise. Nevertheless, I keep asking myself every time I see these tweets if we should be really laughing at them given the situation we are in and this man's position or bashing him for taking things so lightly. But then again no one takes anything seriously in this…
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Men-Only Parking In Lebanon

10 years ago
A spot-on ad by Lowe Pimo for ABAAD NGO. Lebanon has 0 female ministers in the current government and four out of the 128 MPs are women only. We need to see more Lebanese women ...
Events

Jbeil (Byblos) Unveils Its Christmas Tree And It’s Even Better Than Last Year!

10 years ago
Lighting Up The Christmas Tree – By Michel Kosseifi Last year’s 97-foot-high Jbeil Christmas tree was featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian and was truly one of the most beautiful trees we’ve ...
Beirut

Virgin Megastore Offering Free Rides To Christmas Shoppers

10 years ago
Traffic is a huge problem during December in Lebanon and more specifically inside Beirut, and it’s almost impossible to find a parking spot inside malls like ABC Achrafieh & Dbayyeh, Citymall, Beirut Souks or even ...
Critiques

Roadworks In Dbayyeh For The Next Two Weeks: I Kid You Not!

10 years ago
Christmas season has begun and Dbayyeh malls are already causing traffic, The Village Dbayyeh just opened recently, there’s a storm coming this weekend so the logical thing to do is of course to schedule roadworks ...
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