Happy In Lebanon: The Lebanese Version of Pharrell Williams’ Happy Song

I was hoping to compile the entries I got and upload the video by this weekend but it seems someone has been working on it already. I wish they had seen the post and contacted me, at least I would have shared the stuff I got and compiled everything into one video. Either way, it's a pretty cool clip but I think I will still go ahead with our planned video since a lot of…

Hashem el Madani, Akram Zaatari and Saida’s Studio Shehrazade

Lebanese Photographer Hashem el Madani has been taking pictures of Saida's inhabitants over five decades and his archive contains some pretty unusual portraits like the one below. Apparently, it was common in Saida and probably in Lebanon in the 1950s to reenact movie scenes like a fight or a kiss, as long as it's a kiss between two people from the same sex as the society was a conservative one. In the 1960s and 1970s…

Beirut Municipality To Install 1500-2000 Security Cameras Worth $40 Million Dollars

Surveillance cameras at the entrance of the Iranian embassy in Beirut - Source Beirut's Municipality has decided back in August to install CCTVs all across the city due to the security situation, and based on what Annahar reported yesterday, the budget allocated to installing between 1500 and 2000 cameras will be around $40 million dollars. Honestly, it's quite a huge amount for a couple of thousand cameras , but nothing's clear yet about the bids…
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Haifa Wehbe’s Halawet Rooh Trailer Vs. Monica Belluci’s Martini Gold Commercial

11 years ago
[YouTube] Notice any similarities? Here are the two original videos: [YouTube] [YouTube] Thanks Nad! ...
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Middle East Airlines Issues Clarification Regarding Roula el Helou’s incident

11 years ago
Source From what I’ve just read, it looks like a big misunderstanding and I agree that people shouldn’t make use of one incident, even though it’s not the first, to attack and disrespect MEA as ...
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The Associate Press Removed The New Government’s (Altered) Protocol Photo From Its Archives

11 years ago
After learning of the photograph’s manipulation on Sunday, the Associate Press decided to remove the new Lebanese government’s picture from their archives and advised their customers not to use it. They also called the Photoshop ...
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