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Mar 25, 2015 09:35
The ‘Museum of Civilizations’ was unveiled yesterday at the Metropolitan Art Society in Achrafieh and the exhibition will go on until April 24 from 11AM till 7PM. As I've mentioned before, the project was unveiled by Galal Mahmoud Architects and consists of a museum set in the heart of Beirut and built upon a site sunk deep into the successive strata of the civilizations that underlie Beirut. I was at the unveiling yesterday and asked…
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Najib
Mar 24, 2015 11:10
During one of the Arabnet panels last week, we had the chance to engage with the people behind the ISF and TMC twitter accounts and most of the tweets that I saw seemed to agree that both accounts are doing a great job online but the story is different on the ground. Everyone is interacting online with the ISF and TMC and sharing pictures of drivers breaking the law, but nothing is really changing offline.…
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Najib
Mar 24, 2015 08:31
MP Ali Bazzi retweeting a picture of an Indian woman carrying an Englishman in 1903. Lebanesetweets.net is a pretty cool website set up by my friend Mustapha for indexing and organizing Lebanese tweets done by Lebanon's Members of parliaments. You can filter out "MP Tweets" by district, sect and party. It's a nice idea but our MPs tweet mostly boring stuff, except for Joumblatt maybe. I expect to see journalists, celebrities, bloggers, famous Lebanese tweeps…
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Mar 23, 2015 04:59
via RaniaelKhatib I don't know how accurate this poster is but Lissan Al Hal was a daily Lebanese newspaper that was established by Khalil Sarkis in the 1870s and is considered as one of the oldest Lebanese publications. This 1960 article is entitled "The First Lebanese Car" and talks about a small vehicle that was built using American parts by Younes Motors in Lebanon. It would be interesting to know if this same Younes Motors…
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via BMA A 10 year old kid called Rafic Ahmed Jomaa went missing yesterday around 10:30am during the mini marathon in the La Marina Dbayeh. The Civil Defense and security forces started looking for him ...
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LiveLoveAUB By Ragheb You can follow LiveLoveBeirut on Instagram [Here]. I’m also on Instagram and you can follow me [Here] if you like. Green Beiruti house by Inesbey A cool shot of the partial solar ...
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We celebrated Mother’s day on March 21 but it also happens to be the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and on this day, MARCH Lebanon invited us to remember the thousands of ...
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“Ne7na ma3 7oriyyit el te3beer bass sma3 kelmit 2emmak”. I suggested that slogan to one of my friends who was working on some university project and even though it’s a bit silly, I’m pretty sure ...
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