The Museum of Art and History – Beirut 2019

Just like art is immortal, some of our politicians are and have been in the same position for ages. Dictators, popes and presidents come and go, empires fall and we still have the same political class in Lebanon. Marie-Josee Rizkallah is hoping that things will change by 2019 and imagined a museum of art and history at the old Mar Mikhail train station where visitors and young Lebanese can learn about the "garbage era" given…

Horsh Beirut Is Re-Opening To The Public On Saturdays Only

After being closed for almost 25 years, Horsh Beirut is finally re-opening to the public every Saturday from 7 am to 7 pm. The access to the 40,000-sq-metre pine forest was previously forbidden by the Beirut Municipality for fear of vandalism and poor maintenance, and due to the lack of resources to protect the park. While I agree that entrance to this park and any public park is a right for all the Lebanese, I…

The Lebanese Social Pyramid

Done by Samer B. Saleh The religions are on top, followed by politicians, political security forces and political media, then there's the wozz, the armed wozz, the businessman, the singer, the mafiozo and the Arab investors. On the lowest level, you have the baby, the maid, the grandfather, the graduate, the mother, the botox neighor and the "blackberry teenager" and last but not least the social activist holding a banner that says "We can create…

#Demonstration_Etiquette: All You Need To Know

I have no idea what demonstration etiquette even means, but someone caught MTV talking about it this morning and started the #اتيكيت_التظاهرات hashtag. I just found the video on MTV and the woman is simply talking about the right to protest and preserve public property in the first few minutes but then she starts discussing the proper dress code for a protest and how women should dress nice and look pretty LOL! I'd like to…
Animals & Wildlife

Animal Cruelty Is A Serious Crime! A Young Kid Encouraged To Kill A Kitten For $10

11 years ago
This is disturbing, disgusting and unfreakin-believable! A video is being shared today on Facebook showing two guys encouraging a young kid to push a kitten off a building. You can hear them offering him $10 ...
Lebanon

Awesome #YouStink Rap Song, Powerful And Daring Lyrics

11 years ago
Photo by Jamal Saidi/Reuters I’m not a big fan of Arab rap music but this track by Bou Nasser El Taffar and Al Raass (بو ناصر الطفّار و الرّاس) is quite something! I’m gonna try ...
Advertising

Old 2010 Bahr Loubnan Campaign Is Perfect For Lebanon’s Ongoing Garbage Crisis

11 years ago
These posters are part of a 2010 campaign initiated by NGO Bahr Loubnan and depicting Lebanon’s historical sites covered in trash. The ads were meant to raise awareness on the dangers of marine pollution and ...
Lebanon

#BuyPens Campaign: $175,000+ Collected For Syrian Refugee Family In Beirut

11 years ago
via Al Jazeera Abdul Halim Attar is a Palestinian-Syrian who fled to Lebanon three years ago with his two children and has been selling pens in the streets of Beirut to make ends meet. Attar ...
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