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Once Upon A Time – TV Show
I recently started watching a new American TV series titled “Once Upon A Time,” brought to us by the creators of one of our generation’s best TV shows: Lost. The premise of the show is highly...
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Year 21: The Highs and Lows
Well, today is my birthday. You might have wondered why I love number 13. Well now you know. 13/11. And for the first time in eleven years, I have the same digits forming my age. 22. Many people would...
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AUB Elections: Vote Students At Work
You know what baffles me about pro-Hezbollah (and affiliates) people attending AUB? They tend to forget that it’s the AMERICAN University of Beirut. All they do is go there and bash the American system...
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Lebanese Politicians Fighting Live on National TV
Allouch VS Chaker – round one. They say a picture is worth a thousand words… how about a video? This is embarrassingly hilarious and also sad. I have no idea what the context of the discussion was but...
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Cultural Terrorism in Lebanon: The Adventures of TinTin in the Country of...
Welcome to Lebanon, the country where blocking a director’s name off his movie poster is apparently our *awesome* government’s way of affirming its power. The latest incident of cultural terrorism in...
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Lebanon’s Syrian Occupation – A Persistent Matter That Should Never Be Forgotten
April 26th, 2005. As those last trucks carrying those Syrian soldiers left our land, many Lebanese drew a sigh of relief. Many thought that chapter of their present was finally going down to the...
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Benetton’s New Ad Campaign “Unhate” – Ridiculous or Ingenious?
Upon checking my Facebook home feed yesterday, I was struck by pictures of men kissing. No, I’m not homophobic but yes, I was taken aback by them. Upon closer inspection, I saw that those pictures are...
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The Lebanese Version of Benetton’s “Unhate” Campaign
Leave it to the Lebanese to spoof controversial ad campaigns. Soon after Benetton’s “unhate” campaign basically went viral, online pictures of rival politicians making out surfaced on line and have...
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Miss Lebanon Yara Khoury-Mikhael and Her Recent “Congo” Remarks: The...
You know what’s another example of the mass hypocrisy of the Lebanese people? The most recent issue with Miss Lebanon Yara Khoury-Mikhael, who was crowned on July 10th. I don’t hide my indifference...
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Ellen Degeneres’ Role in Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 – Hilarious
It looks like Ellen Degeneres has a small role in a very crucial moment in the new Twilight movie: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. You don’t believe me? Well, check it out: Well, I wasn’t entirely truthful....
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Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections: The Delusion of the Islamists, Salafists and...
No, I’m not following up with anything Egypt-related. Partly because it’s not my cause to be part of but mainly because I’m disgusted by what’s happening to the Copts there. It sort of puts a damper on...
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Lebanon’s Independence Day
Most countries around the world celebrate their “Independence Day” with ecstatic joy. To all of those countries, it is a reminder of their struggle to break free from superpowers that were using their...
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Myriam Achkar’s Murder: What It is, What It Isn’t And The Need for Foreign...
Myriam Achkar’s murder earlier this week was truly a horrific crime, the tragedy of which can only be grasped by her family and those who knew her. Earlier in the week, she was a regular 27 year old...
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Dear Patriarch Raï, Enough… from a Lebanese Maronite.
I won’t lie and tell you I wasn’t happy when Beshara Al Raï was elected as the successor Maronite Patriarch to Nasrallah Sfeir, a man I believe is truly one of the greatest Lebanon has ever had....
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Greenpeace Lebanon Launches a Secret Mission: Blue Shield 2011
Starting November 29th, Greenpeace Lebanon is on a secret mission, one that requires the cooperation of every Lebanese citizen. The details of the mission are, well, secret. But trust me, it’s highly...
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A Dangerous Method – Movie Review
Psychology and cinema have a long history together with the former often shaping the latter into delivering movies of great caliber. Last year’s “Black Swan” was a manifestation of that: a...
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Lebanese Law on Rape & Virginity: The Hymen Criteria
As many of you know, I am currently pursuing a medical degree. And as part of our medical education, we get numerous anatomy lectures that cover every human body part in its dull details. On Tuesday,...
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Nancy Afiouny: My Meow – Lebanon’s Lady Gaga/Britney Spears/Other Pop Trash...
It seems the concept of beauty queen wannabes, models, actresses, etc… wanting to become singers is still selling to some overly wealthy producer like hotcakes. How about having a former beauty queen...
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The iPhone is Banned in Syria
It looks like one of the new threats to burden the “lovely” Syrian regime is Apple’s iPhone. As if killing 4000 people, torturing countless more and terrorizing their whole country (and a neighboring...
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Blackout Beirut: The Recent Electricity Crisis in Lebanon
I felt like I was in a war zone this past weekend when the power in Beirut kept circulating between three hours of grid connection and three hours of grid disconnection. Perhaps the “highlight” of my...
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