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Najib
Sep 12, 2021 04:32
I just finished "Alephia 2053" and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was despite being 50 minutes long. Alephia 2053 is the first dystopian animation movie produced in Lebanon and has gathered the best Lebanese talents from Rabi’ Sweidan, Jorj Abu Mhayya, Marwan Harb, Jules Kassas, Bassem Breich, Karim Khneiser and many others who came together to tell a story through animation and develop something unique to the Middle East. The movie has…
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Najib
Sep 11, 2021 11:05
On August 4th 2020, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history pulverized the Beirut port and damaged over half the city. On that same day, Arthaus Beirut Boutique hotel, a 25-room Gemmayze property set in a restored Ottoman building, was scheduled to open. Unfortunately, its owners, Nabil and Zoe Debs, along with its guests experienced together the effects of the horrific explosion that killed innocent lives in the city. The hotel owners were however…
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Najib
Sep 11, 2021 05:05
Hector Hajjar, the newly appointed Minister of Social Affairs, is trending online because of his comments on diapers and napkins in a recent interview. According to Hajjar, diapers and napkins are not essential and we should get used to alternatives, such as cloth diapers. I managed to dig out the full interview as the video circulating ends right before he suggests an alternative to buying water bottles, and it turns out his alternative is setting…
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Najib
Sep 10, 2021 09:35
Note: The post is a WIP as I will keep updating it with new information & correcting existing ones. I did a quick search on each of the 24 new ministers and thought I compile them into a blogpost along with their respective pictures: Prime Minister: Najib Mikati Najib Mikati is the cofounder, with his billionaire brother Taha, of Beirut-based investment firm M1 Group. Its investments include stakes in South African telecom firm MTN, fashion…
Information
4 years ago
Lebanon PM Najib Mikati will officially head a 24-member government, ending a 13-month deadlock that saw the country slide deeper into financial chaos and poverty. The government was announced today from Baabda and will be ...
Humor
4 years ago
Lebanon has been without a fully functional government for over a year now, and is headed towards more chaos and poverty amid a worsening social and economic crisis. Despite all that, the political parties fighting ...
Critiques
4 years ago
The parliamentary law adopted in 2017 was the first to allow expats to cast their votes; however the rules were very poorly publicized, turnout was low, registered voters lists were leaked and the whole process ...
Lebanon
4 years ago
The $556 million ration card program was officially launched today by the Lebanese government and a website [DAEM] was put in place to allow people to register. However and unsurprisingly, the website has crashed and ...
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