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The Mankousheh Culture: Lebanon’s Zaatar W Zeit Launches World Mankousheh Day

If there’s anything I miss about Lebanon, apart from my friends and family, it’s the food. Say what you want about the country – and after living in the U.S. for around half a year, I can definitely...

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Beirut: A Major Hollywood Movie With Jon Hamm & Rosamund Pike Will Be...

Cringe moment incoming, or at least I hope it’s not. Coming in April 2018 is a major Hollywood movie from director Brad Anderson who’s known for movies such as The Machinist, The Call, and...

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How A Tweet Launched A Mini Regional Crisis: Mossad Launches...

As part of an article on rising travel destinations, Forbes Magazine listed both Tel Aviv and Beirut as some of the locations that Americans are becoming increasingly interested in visiting. As such,...

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“West Beirut” and “The Insult” Director Ziad Doueiri Arrested in Beirut...

Pity the nation that insults its people as other nations honor them. Ziad Doueiri is probably the most essential contemporary Lebanese cinematic director. His movie “West Beirut” is probably the most...

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Lebanon, The Only Country With A St. Charbel, Celebrates Having The Biggest...

A 26 meter St. Charbel statue made its journey from Jounieh to Faraya. If that’s not enough of a Keserwan dose for one day for anyone, I don’t know what is. The problem is it doesn’t stop there. The...

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In Battle Against ISIS, Lebanon’s Army Pays Tribute To Spain’s Terrorist...

As Lebanon’s Army General Joseph Aoun tweeted the commencement of operation “Fajr el Jouroud,” which translates to “the dawn of the mountains,” Lebanon’s Army has started its full blown assault at the...

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Beirut To Break The Record For World’s Longest Continuing Party At 56 Hours

At a time when the biggest plates of hummus and biggest lemonade reserves aren’t enough, Beirut seems set to do what Beirut does best, and that’s throw the biggest party out there – literally this...

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Lebanon Appoints Dr. Amal Mudallali As First Woman UN Ambassador

To break away from the horrific news of how some fascist and racist Lebanese want to beat up Syrian refugees, enforce taxes on them for breathing, force them into slavery, among other things, one...

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Lebanon’s Government Is Using Syrian Refugees and Fear To Kill Democracy and...

Tensions in Lebanon are at an all-time high as political rhetoric against the refugees seems to have found its way to a union the like of which we haven’t seen before, bolstered by public support...

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Justin Trudeau’s Government Rejects Request For Direct Flights Between...

Remember that Trudeau fellow whose PR-smart maneuvers have made him one of the world’s, if not the world’s most loved politician? From his quirky socks, to his cheeky videos that celebrate everyone,...

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The Day I Lost My Grandfather

It never crossed my mind, as I kissed you goodbye on the forehead in that ER room on that last day I was home, that that would be the last time I touched your skin, that my promise of seeing you again...

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The Day I Immigrated: There Are Homes Better Than A Home in Lebanon, Which Is...

Today is the day I become a Lebanese expat and my country of residence, in all those forms that we have to fill, becomes something else than the home I’ve known for all of the 27 years I’ve existed so...

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In Lebanon, You Can Get Away With Murder, But Naming A Doctor Is Rare &...

  It’s beautiful, isn’t it, to be so influential and connected that you can get the judiciary branch in Lebanon to limit everyone’s freedom of speech in order to make sure whatever’s left of one’s...

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Roy Hamouche’s Murder Is Horrific, But Calling For The Death Penalty Isn’t...

  The barbaric murder, at the hands of Mohammad Ahmar and this two friends, of Roy Hamouch, a 24 year old architect, has quickly trumped all other discussions taking place in the country as the entire...

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Justice for Roy: When Lebanon Is A Full Blown Jungle, Not A Country

Welcome to the jungle, where you can die because some brainless goon, empowered by his wasta and the guns he has around his waist and in the trunk of his can, will shoot you for upsetting him or for...

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From Halaweh Tarts To Achta & Honey Eclairs: The New Fusion Ramadan Sweets...

Over the weekend, I ventured out to Akkar’s Ammou3a area for the first time ever with two friends tagging along. After a super long and arduous drive – those roads are horrendous – it only felt...

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In The Lebanese Jungle, (El Jamal) Nader (Wa) Saab Can Practice “Medicine”…...

When I graduated from medical school about two years ago, part of the Hyppocratic Oath that we took – and its most important – was: Do no harm. It’s our moral and legal obligation as doctors to do the...

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Islamic Extremists Threaten Ahwak Ben Tafesh Coffee Shop In Tripoli Because...

Tripoli’s Ahwak Cafe is a lot of things. Nestled right across a Mosque in the Dam w Farz area, in the newer parts of the city, a stone’s throw away from the gorgeous Rachid Karami forum, it’s a place...

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Lebanon’s Government Wants To Ban “Wonder Woman” Because Lead Actress Gal...

Oh look, just when you thought we couldn’t regress further as a country, some entity decides to take up the challenge. The latest is Lebanon’s Ministry of Economy deciding, at the very last minute, to...

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Joe Semaan: The Fraud Faking Being Lebanese Police To Abuse Foreign Maids

Meet Joe Semaan, another entity for us to add to the growing list of filth associated with Lebanon and whose mere existence is a waste of space, and an abomination to every single inch of advancement...

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