Ziad Doueiri’s “The Attack” rejected by Lebanon’s Cinema Committee

Ziad Doueiri's latest movie "The Attack" After working for six years on this movie, The Lebanese Cinema Committee rejected the movie because it wasn't Lebanese enough, and having Israeli actors in it. Doueiri was hoping to nominate his movie for an Oscar under the Foreign Film category. For those of you who don't know Ziad Doueiri, he is a Lebanese-born cinematographer, film director and writer, best known for his award winning film West Beirut. He…

Betchay Municipality Curfew on foreigners is illegal

via Rita Betchay Municipality decided few days ago to impose a curfew on ALL foreigners from 8:30pm till 5:30am. Not only is this decision disrespectful and unjustified, but it is also illegal. The municipality, as per my friend and lawyer Jad, is not authorized to issue such a curfew and there's no legal ground to it. I wonder if this curfew applies to European and American tourists as well. I would love to see the…

Gas & Alcohol Don’ti Mixi

In case you don't know what they're singing about, check Egyptian President Morsi's visit to Germany below. This guy is a joke lol! The best part starts at Minute 08:15 Thanks Hala!
Baladi

Dermandar Panorama voted World’s Best App at the World Summit Award for mobile content

13 years ago
[Cedars Panorama] I’ve been using this app ever since it was launched and it’s very easy-to-use and cool. I even had the chance to meet one of its founders at a friend’s wedding. I have ...
Critiques

Mohammad Chahrour winner of BeTheMinister competition

13 years ago
Update2: Here’s the full list of [WINNERS]. Update: List of winners will be available today in the afternoon. The draw for the BeTheMinister.com competition took place two days ago and Mohammad Chahrour won the big ...
Humor

Lebanese Against Civil Marriage

13 years ago
SayNoToCivilMarriage is a Facebook group that makes fun of those opposed to legalizing civil marriage in Lebanon for silly and unjustified reasons. Some of the banners they came up with are hilarious. Check them out ...
Events

Pictures from Jordi Machi’s Popeye ‘WTF’

13 years ago
I went to Popeye’s ‘WTF’ event yesterday at Vick Vanlian boutique and ‘WTF’ was my first reaction to the paintings. I don’t know what got into this guy’s head to draw such twisted paintings of ...
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