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Najib
Oct 17, 2013 09:59
According to this report, 29.8 million people live in modern slavery globally, out of which nearly 4000 in Lebanon. Honestly speaking, I am not sure how accurate this report is as it is estimated that Lebanese families employ more than 200,000 migrant domestic workers mainly from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines and the way of recruiting these workers can be best described as Lebanon's Polished Version Of Modern Slavery. You can check out the…
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Najib
Oct 17, 2013 07:58
Downtown Beirut by Michaelallangrant, on Flickr Condé Nast Traveler announced the winners of its 26th annual Readers' Choice Awards two days ago and Beirut made it as one of the World's best cities. It's quite surprising to be honest to see Beirut on that list, specially after the past two years we had and the ongoing Syrian war. Let's hope things will get better in Lebanon this year so we could improve on that ranking.…
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Najib
Oct 16, 2013 11:36
Eugene Martin's "Beirut" Show Unfortunately, there are still gun battles taking place in Beirut every now and then and the last one was yesterday in Tariq el Jdidé. The area of Beirut, Philadelphia is just 3 square blocks. It was named that way by the people who lived there in the late 90s since there was a gun battle for about 2 weeks and at the time, there was a war in Lebanon and Beirut…
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Najib
Oct 16, 2013 07:18
Despite conceding a goal in the first half-time, Lebanon had a great second half against against the Kuwaiti team and could have won the game but only managed to score the equalizing goal. A draw places us behind Kuwait in the rankings but we still have a chance to qualify to the Asian Cup if we win the next game. As far as refereeing is concerned, I still can't believe the Kuwaiti player got away…
Information
12 years ago
Kobayat, a Lebanese town located north of Lebanon, is set to inaugurate the world’s second biggest cross and Lebanon’s biggest cross on the 26th of October. The cross is 40 meters long and 20 meters ...
Animals & Wildlife
12 years ago
Both Pictures taken from LebanonDebate A bird was caught in Achkout by a local hunter wearing a GPS transmitter and a leg bracelet engraved with the “Tel Aviv University” logo. The website that posted the ...
Lebanon
12 years ago
Here are few selected pictures from the “Waiting For The Train” exhibition that took place on October 11th at the Mar Mikhail train station. All pictures were taken from the below sources: – Achillea Facebook ...
Humor
12 years ago
Spotted in Jounieh We still don’t know what this phrase means, maybe because it has no meaning. Thanks Elias! ...
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