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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.
Posted By
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…
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Najib
Dec 04, 2021 04:58
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 army soldier helping a schoolgirl get to her parents during the Tayyounesh clashes in their 2021 Pictures of the Year. The photo was taken on October 14 2021 after gunfires erupted following a protest led by Amal & Hezbollah. Students…
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Najib
Nov 27, 2021 02:31
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 area of 174,000 square meters at a cost of around $1 billion. They practically bought the whole mountain on top of the existing embassy and construction should be done by 2023. The embassy was designed by Morphosis Architects and Alabama-based…
Humor
4 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
4 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 ...
Information
4 years ago
UNICEF released a survey recently highlighting the dramatic deterioration of living conditions in the past months and the impact this ongoing crisis is having on children. The survey mentions that nearly 8 in 10 Lebanese ...
Elections2022
4 years ago
Around 150K expats have registered so far to vote for the 2022 elections with only 5 days left. The number constitutes around 15% of the total expats eligible to vote, which is a very low ...
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