First marriage agency opens in Lebanon — by Antoine Khoury
With continuous emigration being a strong reality of the Lebanese society, it would probably take a lifetime for Lebanese abroad and within to find their soul mate, unless they’re given a little help. It’s this help that Pomd’Amour aims to provide. For the first time in Lebanon, a professional matchmaking company aims at helping busy [...]
Beirut , Feelings: Raw — by Omar Habib
On a lazy lonely night, I watched the movie “A Perfect Day” by Joana Hadji Thomas and Khalil Joreige, while longing for a loved one in Beirut and battling my own demon. The following is what this movie has inspired as thoughts and feelings, and was sent to this same loved one. Read on, and [...]
Books? What Books?! - by Rewa Zeinati
We drive all the way to Rumiyyeh, somewhere in the mountains, somewhere close to Eley3at… way up to where the air is far from Beirut’s polluted humidity… We come by an attractive looking restaurant, we decide to grab a coffee and continue exploring elsewhere. She welcomes us in warmly; a women in her late 30’s, [...]
Get to know Beirut by foot with WalkBeirut
First time in Beirut? Interested in exploring Beirut’s layers of history by foot? WalkBeirut offers the city’s only guided walking tours in English. Their tours are run by Lebanese students who know the city inside-out. The tour offers an insider’s look into Beirut’s rich and often troublesome past, while witnessing upfront our city’s enduring spirit. Walk [...]
De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage — Dalia Mourad
Behind a ludic title that could lead our imagination to Hollywood, unreality and imagination, “De Niro’s game” is nothing but the coarse reality of the fall of a country which citizens either drowned into the mud of civil war or left searching for a better place. My first literature experience in Canada was a book written [...]
Classified?!
06 July 2009
It was my first day at school in Lebanon. We’ve decided to come back to Lebanon to live there for good. I was 13. I was so excited about it…finally I was meeting people who live like I do, talk like I do, and look like I do. But living in Lebanon after spending all [...]
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Only In Lebanon
15 June 2009
Only in Lebanon … do people wear suits for breakfast and four inch heels to visit ruins. do people have conversations in French while attending an English-language university even though their first language is Arabic. do people use French, Arabic and English words as part of a routine sentence eg. MerÇi Ktir, bye. is everyone you meet related to [...]
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So we shall not forget! - by Hanine Jamhour Mansour
20 April 2009
April 18, 1996. Sunday Easter day… Humanity was celebrating life, joy and happiness. Children of the world were happy; some were egg hunting, which we don’t have in our culture, eating their chocolate easter bunny, going to church with their parents celebrating life… Besides these activities, Lebanese children were competing to see whose egg is [...]
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“Caramel”- Something old something new
17 April 2009
“I couldn’t understand why the characters were still living with their parents!” Between bang-trimming and magazine skimming, that was what Jennifer, my hair stylist here in Saint Louis, asked me while we discussed the Lebanese movie “Caramel,” released in the summer of 2008. The subject of foreign movies somehow came up, and as soon as Jennifer [...]
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“The Lebanese passport for me as well”
08 April 2009
signed by children of Lebanese mothers and foreign fathers. For a country arguably famed of being the region’s democratic & tolerant, Lebanon is not that advanced or different when it comes to promoting women’s rights, especially in the citizenship field. Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children according to Lebanese nationality law, except [...]
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Who loves Lebanon more: Locals/Expats?
01 April 2009
When I was studying in England, Fairuz was my daily companion. Back in Lebanon, I stopped listening to her songs. Somehow, she represented a Lebanon I do not identify with anymore… Lebanon is easy going: good food, good mood, and good nights. Nice sun, a place to have fun. Lebanon is history: temples and fortresses, [...]
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“Towelhead”- an unmoving attempt at a movie
24 March 2009
Towelhead? Seriously? Why not camel jockey or sand nigger? Just as well, of course. The writer must have been trying to be a little different perhaps. Well there was nothing different about the movie “Towelhead” in my opinion. Apart from the fact that there was an extremely annoying and unredeemable Lebanese character who played the role [...]
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What about a mixture of oriental and jazz music?
17 March 2009
The music of Philippe El Hage, who is currently residing in Paris, is a perfect mix of oriental and western sounds resulting in an original and intriguing form of Jazz. His first Album, called Byblos, was released on the 20th of December of 2007 in Europe and the Middle East. Since the huge success of [...]
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