Villa Clara: Beirut With a French Accent

A new guesthouse in Mar Mikhail has been featured in the New York Times. Villa Clara Villa is located on Khenchara Street, Mar Mikhael and is a "charming, affordable guesthouse filled with French antiques". I should pay this place a visit soon and try out the light summer menu. The tiny boutique hotel, its restaurant and guest rooms stocked with Parisian antiques, opened last year around the corner from an Asterix chicken shack and across…

Lebanese Army – LAF Shield App

I suggested in a post last week that the Lebanese Security Forces should set up few useful apps for citizens to submit reports almost instantly and the Lebanese Army has launched today an app that does exactly that and more! LAF Shield allows you to report any suspicious activity or crime committed and you have the option to swipe and initiate a stress call. It also indicates the danger zones using Google Maps as well…

Help Roger Dahan

Roger Dahan is one of Beirut's many homeless people. He was found yesterday on the streets of Mar Mikhail bleeding and in a bad condition. He had been lying on the pavement for 2 hours covered in blood and in the sun. After several calls to the Red Cross and 112, Roger was finally Roger taken to the Rafik Hariri Hospital. Some people already volunteered to help him out and a was open for that…
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How successful is the Lebanese Diaspora?

12 years ago
This week’s episode on the Freakonomics radio examines the Lebanese Diaspora and how successful it is. Listen to it [Here]. “If you look at ten or twenty or thirty of the richest countries around the ...
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Lebanese railway revival to be studied

12 years ago
Rayak Train Station – Picture taken from Bambi’s Soapbox Based on the below article, the European Investment Bank will conduct a study to examine the cost and feasibility of reopening the approximately 80 km Beirut-Tripoli ...
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Cyprus Airways & Air France modify their flights to Beirut

12 years ago
It’s a good thing no one cancelled their trips yet. Speaking of airports, no decisions were taken yet to open the Kleiat airport as an alternative to Rafic Hariri’s. Cyprus Airways: Effective Thursday, the 8:30 ...
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Tamanna makes Tarek’s dream come true

12 years ago
[YouTube] The Official Camaro Club Lebanon along with IMPEX helped to realize Tarek’s dream. I gladly took part once in one of Tamanna’s events where they surprised Charly at Le Mall by giving him the ...
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