Three Caricatures To Sum Up Lebanese Events This Past Week

via Al Jomhouria A couple of words here: I strongly believe this matter should be treated legally as our juridical body is still far better than any other body in this country. via Claude el Khal Summer is here but we still don't know yet how hot it will be. The sure thing is that everyone will be partying in Beirut no matter what! via Claude el Khal

Violence, Camouflaged: Powerful Portraits Of Lebanese Women

By Lebanese Photographer Lamia Maria Abillama This is not a campaign to support the Lebanese Army, but a powerful series of portraits by Lebanese Photographer Lamia Maria Abillama entitled "Clashing Realities". Several Lebanese civilian women, like May Chidiac, are shown in their homes wearing military uniforms "a symbolic representation of the encroachment of political violence into personal space", or in other words to symbolize the violence that these women experienced at some point in their…

I Challenge MP Kabbani To Use Public Transportation For One Week

Our Public Works, Transportation, and Water and Energy Parliamentary Committee Head MP Mohammad Kabbani told a journalist that he doesn't need to buy a car in Lebanon if he doesn't get paid much because, and I quote, "there are taxis everywhere and people use public transportation everywhere in the world". When another reporter asked him if he had ever used public transportation, he replied that he used to take the train to college. If we…

How To 69 On The Saida Highway

There are three things that came to mind while watching this video: 1- Where are the cops on that road? It's one of the busiest ones in all of Lebanon. 2- Why doesn't he have a license plate on the bike? 3- Last but most importantly, who's the guy filming all these stunts? Why doesn't he try to film them as landscape?
Lebanon

Global School Rankings 2015: Lebanon Ranks 58th Worldwide, 3rd Among Arab Countries

10 years ago
BBC are calling these rankings the “biggest ever global school rankings” as they were “based on an amalgamation of international assessments, including the OECD’s Pisa tests, the TIMSS tests run by US-based academics and TERCE ...
Health

Lebanese Young Entrepreneur Ziad Sankari Recognized By US President Barack Obama

10 years ago
I met Ziad Sankari back in 2012 as we were both speakers at TedxLAU. I remember very well sitting right next to Ziad and asking him about CardioDiagnostics as it was a brilliant idea and ...
Information

A Lebanese TV Campaign Against Homophobia: The First Of Its Kind In The Arab World

10 years ago
Homosexuality is not a trend nor an illness and people don’t choose to become gay. Blaming People for Being Gay is Like Blaming Them for Being Left-Handed. IDAHOT (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) is ...
Critiques

Is This For Real? Domestic Workers In Lebanon Could Face Deportation If They Marry non-Lebanese

10 years ago
As if the situation wasn’t bad enough for domestic workers in Lebanon, the Lebanese authorities are in the process of passing a law that prohibits workers from having any type of relationships in Lebanon or ...
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