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Najib
Dec 14, 2021 03:51
Few weeks after Dar Al Jadeed, a publishing house founded by Lokman Slim and his sister Rasha Al Ameer in 1990, received the 2021 International Publishers' Association Prix Voltaire award, Monika Borgmann who is Lokman's wife, was awarded this year's Franco-German Human Rights Awards for her work. Quoting German Ambassador Andreas Kindl, Borgmann has been a steadfast voice on reconciliation and against a culture of impunity. Borgmann won the award for her work at UMAM…
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Najib
Dec 11, 2021 05:15
Zaatar W Zeit has officially opened its first branch in Egypt. The branch will be located in New Cairo at White by The Waterway. The opening day was on Friday the 26th of November. Zaatar w Zeit is already open in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Kuwait. They also opened the first branch in North America two years ago in Vancouver.
Posted By
Najib
Dec 11, 2021 04:54
IMPACT, the inter-ministerial and municipal platform for assessment, coordination and tracking, announced today that Lebanon's Health Ministry vaccine certificate is now recognized by the European Union Digital COVID certificate System, which means that the COVID-19 certificates issued in Lebanon are now equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate. This is excellent news for all Lebanese and especially frequent travelers.
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Najib
Dec 04, 2021 05:30
We celebrate Eid el-Berbara today in Lebanon, where people dress up in costumes and visit family, friends and neighbors to wish them well. The tradition also involves singing Berbara songs, growing and eating sweetened wheat as well as Atayef. The "Atayef" consist of a soft dough filled with nuts and pistachios and topped with a sweet syrup . The tradition also includes singing Sabah's famous Runaway Barbara . I included an animated version done by…
Lebanon
3 years ago
2021 was unfortunately yet another year marked by protests, violence and instability for Lebanon. Unlike the years where extravagant Christmas trees or festivals would tour the world, Reuters has featured Mohamed Azakir’s photo of an ...
Architecture
3 years ago
Aerial shots showing the massive new US embassy campus in Awkar have been circulating online in the past week. The new US Embassy in Lebanon will remain in Awkar and will be built over an ...
Humor
3 years ago
Forget the decades of corruption, the third highest public debt-to-gross domestic product, the state-sponsored Ponzi scheme, the real cause behind the Lira collapse, aside from the notorious yet invisible US blockade of course, is Google ...
Architecture
3 years ago
An Achrafieh apartment, designed Lebanese designer Marc Dibeh, has won the Best Interior Design trophy at the AD Design Awards 2021. The apartment was rebuilt after the Beirut Blast, and “serves as a metaphor for ...
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