A round-up aggregator about Lebanese Blogs, gathering different opinions from different backgrounds, a variety of perspectives and interests; politics, art, photography, paintings and poetry. From Lebanon, to Lebanon and about Lebanon.
A very talented illustrator (Nadine) dazzled us with viola over the past months, and has recently launched her website. I highly recommend you checking her blog and her website, because it will make you feel like you're in another much more creatively colored and beautiful world, the world of viola!
Fanart #6
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I’m SO happy! Just got a fanart by the very sweet Beshr Kayali. Thanks so
much Beshr, it’s lovely! Beshr & his bro Mohammad are one of the pioneers of
podc...
Donate your hair!!
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There's been a lot of publicity over the past few years related to hair
donation, including Hillary Swank's highly public hair cut on Oprah. Before
you t...
Hopenhagen Failahapen
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Even though the negotiations ended last week, I didn't blog about them
immediately, well because I figured there is time and no need to rush
anymore to try...
Same Old Same Old
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We have a great matal in Lebanese: meen jarrab al mjarrab kan 3a2lo
mkharrab… It means you are crazy if you keep trying to use something broken!
Everyone i...
أخبار متفرقة
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لبى الاعلاميون في منطقة حاصبيا ومرجعيون دعوة قائد القطاع الشرقي في
"اليونيفيل" الجديد الجنرال كاسيميرو سان خوان الى لقاء تعارفي بينه وبين
الحائط الذي سيرطم...
note
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If you wangle Ziad Baroud’s last interview with Marcel Ghanem, I see a
pattern in his thinking. I feel his ideal government, is the government that
governs...
Israel Admits Stealing Palestinian Organs
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"If such is what they are willing to admit, imagine how much they are
concealing," Knesset member Teibi told IOL. - the rest of the article ...
merry-go-round
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The Heaviest Burden — What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest
loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: “This life, as though livest
it a...
Retour en grâce pour la Syrie
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la visite officielle du premier ministre Saad Hariri à Damas constitue la
dernière étape d’un retour en grâce pour le régime syrien, ne manquant pas
de m...
Farmers’ Means of Coping
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Josh Hersh wrote an article a few months ago on how Lebanese eat unripe
fruits (janerik, unripe plums is one example). He asked me why do we do
that, and I...
Moving On
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It had to happen sooner or later. I can imagine that when Majd al-Assad died
last week, Saad Hariri’s advisors all reached for their cell phones at the
sam...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . .
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... everywhere you go.Sietske in Beirut will be Sietske in Holland for
Christmas. It's been about 17 years since I have spent a Christmas back
home. And ...
عن ساحة حرب دائمة: بيروت!
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في هذه البقعة القاسية، حتى على الصقيع، الجميع جلاد وضحيّة! الجميع متواطىء
ضد الجميع. *** في بيروت، يذهب الفقراء لمقاتلة الفقراء. والموت، دائماً، من
نصيبهم...
Become a PROUD Maldivian citizen
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Because we are NOT all that proud of the countries' level of ambitions in
the climate negotiations here in Copenhagen,
Because we regard the President o...
Hair Salon opens up in ABC toilets
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some things you only see in Lebanon,
take for example this girl 'straightening' her hair in the ABC Achrafieh
ladies room - yes, with a flat iron plugged in...
Hmmm... if that is not Fanaticism, then what is?
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Israel accuses its surroundings of being fanatics, nevertheless, this group
of people are considered then what? Assigning supremecy to the Torah over
the c...
Wanted : Human Rights for Arab Bloggers
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Last Thursday, December 10th, was the International Day for Human Rights. I must admit I am not overly impressed by that date, as I consider that every day s...
Petraeus: Izzat al-Duri is Living Freely in Syria
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In addition to the strong statements made by Gen. Ray Odierno (see here and
here), Gen. David Petraeus made some statements of his own in an interviewwith A...
Rent a Flat in Cairo: Dealing with the landlord
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Many foreigners have difficulty dealing with their landlords. Given the
difference in language and culture, it can be difficult to make sure you are
not ta...
The other side of the mirror and google translate..
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Yeah Yeah I said good night one hour ago.. but I'm still here.. This new
medicine is making my head spin at the moment, but I have just missed
writing so m...
Meet BeirutRestaurants.com
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I have just discovered this website, a resourceful online directory for
restaurants in Beirut city. It is, without any doubts, the most updated
database fo...
Hariri Jr. government gets confidence vote
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The newly birthed Hariri government finally gets a vote of confidence to
start officially working and implementing its now infamous "governmental
statement...
Helem report about homosexuality in the arab world
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On 21 December, Helem will launch a report on the legal situation of homosexuality in the Arab world, with case studies about Lebanon and Tunis with the par...
Islam and the secular state
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Yesterday evening, Abdullahi Ahmad an-Na’im, the Sudanese scholar at Emory,
gave a talk at AUB based on his latest book, Islam and the Secular State:
Negot...
عن المعلومات و فروعها في العالم العربي
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اشارك اليوم في اطلاق كتيب وفيلم عن استخدام المعلومات - خاصة عبر الوسائل التقنية الحديثة - في العمل المطلبي والمناداة. الكتيب والفيلم يعرضان لخبرات العديد من ...
Arabic Graffiti in Lebanon and the Arab World
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I gave a lecture about Arabic graffiti in Lebanon and the Arab Worldon the
18th of November at Notre Dame University part of the City Street
Conference. Be...
Fish for frying!
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I was thinking this morning (it happens!) about my blog. About writing
something positive, something challenging, something that could inspire
other people...
Museums - an imagined lens into a nation?
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It took me several months after my arrival into Oslo to wonder into the
city's national galleries and art centres.
Admittedly, I have never been much of a ...
Where are their rights?
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Women worked to death in Lebanon From The Guardian Four Ethiopian domestic
workers are thought to have killed themselves in three weeks. Lebanon must
prote...
On MurrTV كلّو mexicain
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A couple of weeks ago Lebanese MTV aired a candid camera show on which yours truly was a victim of a silly prank. I was told that I looked very grumpy which ...
Rumours floating
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Rumours are surfacing of plans for another ‘massive Israeli attack’ on
Lebanon – leaked first a few days ago by a French military source after a
meeting in...
Dietary Victory!
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Let me be the first to declare Lebanon's "dietary victory" over the
[imperialist] Zionist attempt to invade, occupy and annex the culinary
terrain of the b...
Priceless quotes
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Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy,” she said. “I
truly believe that Israel is the energy center of the world. And I also
believe th...
US Allies in 'rivalry' with Iran
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Vali Nasr, an Iranian-American academic, is serving as senior adviser to
Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
A ...
