Construction works to resume at Emile Lahoud’s “Olympic Swiming Pool complex”

I first posted about this abandoned site back in 2010 and it has been the same since then. In 2012, it turned out that 18 million dollars of our tax money were gone to waste to build this complex. Yesterday, I saw a banner on the Naccache bridge informing us that works will resume soon to finish this project. To be honest, I think they should just destroy the whole thing and stop wasting our…

Najwa Karam Tweets

@NajwaKaram Shames el Ghenniyye is hurting our eyes with her tweets. Maybe someone should tell her to install/enable the Arabic Keyboard?

100 seconds about Take Back Parliament

What I like about this initiative is that they have an electoral platform posted on their website covering almost all the topics you could think of. They are divided as follows: - Administrative & Municipalities Reform - Lebanese Heritage - Parliament Reform - Public Transportation - Sustainable Development - National Dialogue and Civil War Memory - Budget and Taxation - Foreign Domestic Workers Rights - Non Smoking Law - ICT Reform & Online Freedoms -…
Automotive

Car Wash Logic in Lebanon

12 years ago
There are at least 3-4 workers washing and cleaning the car, they ask for your keys to move it from one spot to another, and then notify you that they are not responsible for the ...
Information

UK Ambassador Tom Fletcher On the Anniversary of Lebanon’s Civil War

12 years ago
Picture taken from UKInLebanon via Flickr One of the points raised by Fletcher is very similar to what I posted yesterday, in that we need to write down a history book that goes beyond 1943, ...
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Remembering The Lebanese Civil War

12 years ago
Source: Annahar Until we figure out a way to write down a history book that goes beyond 1943, the young generations will never learn the reasons behind behind the civil war, its consequences and how ...
Lifestyle

Sects and the city

12 years ago
A nice read with a lot of details on Tripoli’s fighters and the clashes occurring there. In Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, sectarian warfare has become entrenched as a way of life. Every few weeks, ...
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