Uniting Bab el Tebbeneh & Jabal Mohsen In A Play: The Story Behind This Tripolitan Tale

Four months ago, MARCH Lebanon brought together young men and women from Bab el Tebbeneh & Jabal Mohsen to create and prepare for a comedy play inspired by their lives. The play entitled "Love and War on a rooftop" was written and directed by Lucien Bou Rjeily and it turned out to be a huge success and an inspiring story for all the Lebanese. The play showed us that these two communities don't hate each…

The Iconic Heneine Palace In Beirut Placed on the 2016 World Monuments Fund Watch List

The Heinene Palace, one of Beirut's oldest and most iconic palaces, has just been placed on the 2016 World Monuments Fund Watch List thanks to Save Beirut Heritage! The 19th century palace was built during the Ottoman rule in Zokak el-Blat, which used to be one of the upper class districts in Beirut where villas and palaces were built and was the first area to have a paved road as well. Heneine Palace was abandoned…

Foreign Players To Replace Lebanese Basketball Players By 2017

Lebanese players next year - via SportsCode In an attempt to take basketball in Lebanon to the next level, the Lebanese Basketball teams and the Federation have met and agreed on a 3-year plan: Year 1: Allow 3 foreign players instead of 2 in order to push salaries down and make the league more competitive. Year 2: Allow 5 foreign players instead of 3 and limit the number of Lebanese players to 4 in each…
Humor

Homeland (TV Series) Got What They Deserved

10 years ago
via The Guardian Street artists were apparently approached to add authenticity to the Homeland TV Series set somewhere in Berlin to make it look like a refugee camp on the Syrian-Lebanese border, but they did ...
Food

Doomsday Seeds Transferred From Syria To The Bekaa In Lebanon

10 years ago
The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard in Norway This is quite an incredible story. Apparently things have become so bad in Syria that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has sounded the doomsday alarm and made ...
Lebanon

Lebanese Passport Among The Ten Worst Passports For Travel

10 years ago
The 2015 Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index is out and Lebanon was ranked 101 out of 109 along with Congo, Iran, Liberia and Libya. The report ranks countries in terms of freedom of travel ...
Food

The Cheesecake Factory Is Finally Opening In Lebanon

10 years ago
The Cheesecake Factory will not open at CityCentre Beirut as it was expected and announced. Instead, it’s opening soon in Verdun and they are already recruiting. I tried The Cheesecake Factory for the first time ...
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