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Byblos Bank – The Lebanese are losing it
Lebanese banks have probably realized they will never be able to improve their customer service, so they opted for producing some cools ads instead. First Jammal Trust Bank, then Bank Audi, and now Byblos Bank.
Kudos to the agency that came up with this one!
Olayan School of Business is the 23rd most beautiful business school in the world
This must be some cool news to the students at Olayan School of Business as it has been ranked as the number 23 most beautiful business school in the world by Top Management Degrees website.
In 2009 the American University of Beirut received a stunning new building for its Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, courtesy of Massachusetts architectural firm Machado and Silvetti Associates. The pre-cast masonry used for its façade is intended to mirror the local limestone found in buildings across the rest of the campus, and the openings in the exterior echo the wooden latticework of the region’s mashrabiya windows. These apertures are smaller on the lower floors to provide shade but are bigger higher up the building. This design allows staff members to get beautiful glimpses of the Mediterranean from their offices.
You can check the full list here, the most beautiful school was Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in California. Moreover, some photos of OSB are available here.
LBC News anchor featured on AlBernameg with Bassem Youssef
Bassem Youssef’s AlBernameg started airing again on TV and the first episode of this season featured one of the news anchor at LBC. (She appears at the 10m58s mark)
Jessica Azar from MTV also got featured the same way in one episode of the previous season.
Lebanese trader gets fined a record €14m in France
Joseph Raad, a Lebanese stock trader who now works in France, had the largest penalty in the history of France’s market (€14m) imposed on him last week, after being accused of using inside information on the launch of a takeover of SNCF Geodis and making more than €6m in profit back in 2008!
Prior moving to France, Joseph was apparently responsible of the dealing room at Banque du Credit Libanais.
You can read more about the story on Al Jadeed and Compliance Alert.
Alfa 4G new ads
Leila featured on CNN as the best Lebanese restaurant in Dubai
Dubai’s branch of Leila restaurant has been featured in CNNGo this month as the best Lebanese restaurant in the UAE.
You can check the full article here.
Video via Leila’s page on Facebook.
Here’s how are the clashes like in Tripoli
Few thugs have been ruling this beautiful city for more than 5 or 6 years now, and I don’t see it ending anytime soon until one party totally defeats the other. Yet they’re almost equal in power, so it’s more like getting stuck in an endless loop.
Star Academy finally got its first SEX scandal!
While contestants in the European versions of Star Academy take the liberty to appear nude in front of cameras sometimes, Star Academy Lebanon makes a fuss out of a guy’s boner!
Filing this video under “sexual frustration”.
Terrible traffic at Ouzai this morning
Earlier this month, minister Marwan Charbel imposed a new traffic plan on truck drivers to keep them from driving during rush hours in order to reduce congestion on the main roads.
The drivers eventually didn’t like this plan, so they started complaining about it in the media until they decided to go on a protest today. And being the geniuses they are, they didn’t do that in front of the ministry of interior or any other reasonable place, on the other hand, they simply decided to block the Ouzai highway which is used by thousands everyday to reach Beirut, which made people wait for like an hour or two in their cars this morning! I know because I was one of them.
Police officers were as usual just watching the protestors, and not daring to speak a word with them, while trying to organize the traffic a bit.
Balad mat3oub 3leih!