Posted By
Najib
May 28, 2015 09:00
This is an old funny video from 2010 that shows Hitler's reaction when he finds out he couldn't get a table at Skybar. I am sharing it because it shows how popular Skybar was back then and how it managed to stay the hottest place in Beirut ever since it opened. Everyone wants to go to Skybar and its closure this summer is a huge loss to the nightlife scene and Lebanon as a whole.…
Posted By
Najib
May 28, 2015 10:33
A big fire broke out around 2am today at Skybar Beirut causing some major damages. I'm not really sure what happened as I was unable to get in touch with anyone yet but I read in the Daily Star that it could be due to an electrical short circuit. Skybar was scheduled to open next week but I'm not sure they can fix all this mess in time. I will keep you posted as soon…
Posted By
Najib
May 27, 2015 11:32
This is the flag of the Trucial States, which were a group of sheikhdoms in the south eastern Persian Gulf and signatories to treaties with the British government and later on became the United Arab Emirates in 1971. As you can see, the flag is pretty much the Lebanese flag without the Cedar tree. I looked up the meaning of the flag, and while the red was a traditional color, the white was imposed by…
Posted By
Najib
May 27, 2015 08:57
There are things you can get used to in Lebanon, like traffic and reckless driving but some things just don't make any sense and no matter how many times I see them, I can't get over them: Here are some of the things that annoy me on my way from Jounieh to Achrafieh every day: 1- All of Jounieh's intersections don't make any sense. They just cause more traffic. 2- The military base in the…
Critiques
11 years ago
via Al-Akhbar The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has surpassed the 1 million mark this year, and our country has the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world with 257 refugees ...
Food
11 years ago
Helado has been my all-time favorite ice-cream place for quite some time in Lebanon but its only inconvenient is that the shop is tiny, there’s no parking space around it and it gets really crowded ...
Advertising
11 years ago
Unlike the Solet horrible teaser, this is actually a smart campaign and for a good cause that concerns us all. Can you guess what it is for? Update: It’s a Donner Sang Compter campaign which ...
Lebanon
11 years ago
I was watching Yasmine Hamdan, another highly talented Lebanese artist, when I read about Ely Dagher winning the Palme D’or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival for his short movie Waves ’98. Ely is the ...
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