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Category: Lebanon

  • Paying parking meter in Beirut by SMS

    A friend just send me these two photos of a park meter in Verdun with instructions posted on it to pay by SMS.

    Beirut park meter pay by sms (2)

    Beirut park meter pay by sms (1)

    Apparently you should first push the “smart” yellow button and text the machine number by SMS to 1315, then push the green button and wait for the receipt. However, there’s no option to choose your parking duration and you will be automatically billed 1,500L.L for 1 hour instead of the usual 1,000L.L, and the instructions do not mention whether the SMS is free of charge or there is any additional cost for it.

  • Cheyef 7alak discriminating against Lebanese for a change

    Make sure to check the below video. In response to discrimination against foreign workers in Lebanon, Cheyef 7alak decided to reserve a whole restaurant for a group of foreigners and for once turn away the Lebanese who tried to enter and have a dinner there!

  • MTV Lebanon’s website hacked

    Someone just hacked MTV Lebanon’s website in protest to the Orthodox gathering electoral law and posted the below photo on their homepage.

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    I can’t see what does MTV Lebanon has to do with the electoral law in question… why not starting a Facebook page and gain better visibility?

    Update:

    The website has just been restored.

  • Lebanese Army takes over the LU’s cefeteria in Hadath

    lebanese university hadath

    According to this article from Now Lebanon, the army took over the Lebanese University’s cafeteria in Hadath after it has been controlled by the Zeaiter clan for a long time now.

    NOW also reported the Zeaiter’s had their own office inside the university which apparently contained some stolen electronics!

    I just hope the campus will be controlled for good now, even it takes a special force to remain there permanently to keep the Zeaiter’s away forever.

    This whole issue by the way started a while ago after several media sources started reporting about the malpractices in Hadath campus.

  • Bel Jerm El Machhoud busting yet another brothel

    In the first part of the show, security forces find out the place they targeted was abandoned, and therefore decide in the second part to follow the suspects to their new location where some people got the scare of their lives after getting caught in the act!

    Is it about time we make prostitution legal again in Lebanon?

  • More of the storm photos from all around Lebanon

    The Daily Star has some nice photos from almost all around Lebanon showing how the snow blanketed most of the Lebanese villages yesterday, in addition to photos of how bad the situation is in Hay El Sellom after Al-Ghadir flooded the whole area.

    Aley

    Aley

    Baalbeck

    Baalbeck

    Bhamdoun

    Bhamdoun

    Dahr El Baidar

    Dahr El Baydar 1

    Dahr El Baydar

    Damaged sea road in Dbayeh

    Dbayeh

    Hasroun

    Hasroun

    Hay El Sellom

    Hay el sellom 1

    Hay el sellom 2

    Hay el sellom 3

    Hay el sellom

    Jezzine (Yep, nothing can take away our arguileh, not even a snowstorm)

    Jezzine

    Saida

    Saida

    For more photos you can check the Daily Star galleries here, here, and here. And for more about the flood in Hay El Sellom you can also check the below news report by Al Jadeed.

  • Bernard El Hage on Men El Ekhir

    Bernard is the guy who came up with these hilarious predictions on new year.

  • Cool aerial shot of a twister near Beirut

    Check out this cool photo of a water twister facing Beirut taken from an airplane by Cedric Ghoussoub.

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    via @funkyozzi

  • Lebanese olive oil

    I’ve always wondered how olive oil is made until I stumbled upon this interesting video by L’Orient Le Jour showing how the whole process works at one of the workshops in Koura (North Lebanon). Make sure to check it out!

  • Almaza on “The Bride” storm

    Almaza always has something to say about everything!

    Almaza

    via Rüba