Posted By
Najib
Oct 14, 2021 05:05
I am still trying to understand the rationale behind the intense smear campaign against Judge Bitar, the Lebanese judge in charge of the probe into the August 2020 Beirut port blast. Did he break any laws? No. Did he overstep his authority as a judge? No. Did he leak any information pertaining to the investigation to the media? No. Did he make public appearances or go on TV shows to talk about the investigation? No.…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 13, 2021 02:18
When Judge Sawwan was removed by a Lebanese court from the Beirut Port probe, the move didn't come as a surprise as the judge was backing down and throwing the ball in the parliament's court. Of course this doesn't mean they had the right to do so, and the reason they chose to recuse the judge was ridiculous, but he wasn't really up to the fight. On the other hand, Judge Tarek Bitar's investigation into…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 13, 2021 05:25
How many working days do you need to afford Apple’s latest flagship phone? Picodi.com publishes every year the iPhone Index that gather net wages and compare them to the published iPhone prices in each country. In this year's index, Turkey was ranked the worst with 92.5 working days needed to buy an iPhone 13 while it only takes a working man 5.9 days to buy one in the US. As far as Lebanon is concerned,…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 11, 2021 04:23
Volunteers from various NGOs and organizations teamed up today to give back to Hamra some of its glow by cleaning up the area between Rome & Sadat street. This activity was organized by Clean Beirut, a joint initiative by the Makassed Volunteering Unit and the AUB Neighborhood Initiative. The NGOs, civil society groups and businesses who participated are: - Makassed Volunteers - AUB Neighborhood Initiative - American University of Beirut - Ahla Fawda - Nusaned…
Critiques
4 years ago
First, yes we have a golf club in Lebanon and it’s very well preserved surprisingly enough. The Golf Club of Lebanon (GCL) was established in 1923 and is the oldest and largest golf club in ...
Lebanon
4 years ago
Kuwait was among the first countries to provide a humanitarian aid to Lebanon following the Beirut port explosion in August 2020, and has most recently sent an airplane carrying three tons of baby formula as ...
Critiques
4 years ago
The Lebanese parliament could not be bothered today to allocate more than two minutes to discuss a women’s quota in the upcoming 2022 elections. The proposal to amend Article 2 of the electoral law which ...
Humor
4 years ago
We’ve had tons of new movements popping left and right ever since the revolution started, including a group whose logo has the “Avengers” on it with the Thawra first in the background. Those “Thawra Avengers” ...
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