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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

My husband and I just booked our flights to Lebanon.  It has been a very emotional two weeks as we were toiling over the idea of going.  This is my first trip back since we left in 1993.  I finally booked the flights today and my heart hasn’t stopped racing since.
There is a multitude of [...]