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Hamra Festival

By on September 11, 2010 in Lebanon

Last night marked the start of Hamra festival lasting till Sunday featuring a lot of live performances across three stages near Vero Moda, Jack & Jones, and Starbucks.

The festival started on Friday at 5:45PM with a street parade that lasted till 7:30PM, but unfortunately I couldn’t manage to get there before 9:30PM which explains why I only got back with a couple of snapshots! You may check Sietske’s and Rawad’s blog posts who were there and took cool photos of the event.

What was remarkable though during the walk I took is the number of people who got furious at the street blocks, so a lot of them took the liberty to just move them away and invaded the festival premises with their cars. The photo below shows one of them, a taxi driver.

The program for today and tomorrow is loaded with live acts starting 5PM till midnight, so make sure to be there!

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A special way to celebrate Eid at Le Mall Saida

By on September 8, 2010 in Lebanon

The folks at Le Mall Saida have chosen to celebrate Ramadan and Eid with their own special way. Between September 1 and 10, Le Mall will be donating part of its profit for an hour a day to the Children’s Cancer Center.

Anyone shopping there between 11PM and midnight on those 10 days has to just drop his/her receipt in the special box at the mall entrance, and part of it will be donated by Le Mall. This way you’ll be helping a worthy cause while shopping for Eid. More about the event can be found here.

Good move, don’t you think?

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Lebanese blogosphere weekly link roundup (2010/09/05)

By on September 6, 2010 in Weekly Link Roundup

11 Links for this week’s roundup.

See you next week!

إشكال أمني شديد الأسف والانفجار

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How can you eat this?!

By on September 2, 2010 in Lebanon

I saw this pack of “Fesikh” (Dry fish preserved in salt) at TSC Plus Jnah. The second I held it in my hand I felt a shitty smell invading my nose even though the fish were still enclosed in nylon!

To my knowledge, Fesikh is very popular in Egypt especially during Sham El-Nessim, I wonder how the hell can Egyptians eat such thing!

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Lebanese blogosphere weekly link roundup (2010/08/29)

By on August 30, 2010 in Weekly Link Roundup

8 New links for this roundup.

See you next week!

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Can Miss Lebanon Rahaf Abdallah speak any worse than this?

By on August 29, 2010 in Lebanon

The video below was part of the Miss Universe 2010 contest to get the audience to know more about the contestants. This is where Miss Lebanon Rahaf Abdallah claimed that Lebanese men are immature and that she was never out on real date before! (inno seriously?!)

Sounds more like a teenager speaking, no wonder she didn’t get the title.

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53 Photos + 1 video from Bourj Abi Haidar clashes

By on August 26, 2010 in Lebanon

No need for introductions here… you’ve all heard and watched about the clashes that erupted in Burj Ab Haidar 2 days ago between Hizbullah & Jamiyyat Al-Masharii’ Al-Khayriyya Al-Islamiyya (The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects). Yes, an islamic charitable association that possesses machine guns and RPG’s! Kif, leish w min? No one knows. What I know though is that what they did is everything but Islamic, and horrifying people in their houses is certainly not an act of charity!

The craziness that we witnessed was of course not over a parking space as the two parties officials claimed in the media, and it will remain a mystery until someone comes clear about what happened. Let’s see what is awaiting our beautiful city from these ignorants!

Anyway I leave you now with the below video and photos that I found on the web for the clashes and the aftermath.

All photos ar from www.daylife.com

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Ramadan in Tripoli

By on August 25, 2010 in Lebanon

Tripoli is one of the cities that I personally can never get bored of. I was there last Sunday and about to come back to Beirut at around 3:00PM when I decided to waste some additional time at any random souk since there was still plenty of time till Iftar.

And so I went to Al Tall souk (the same one I previously visited) to see how does it look like now in Ramadan. Needless to say, I was encountering sweets and juice vendors everywhere in the small souk, in addition to huge stocks of vegetables in the small stores since everyone gets crazy about buying them in Ramadan, and of course the place was much crowded than last time.


The guy in the left image is selling Kharroub, a sour juice that I disliked a LOT! While on the right image the guy is selling Moghrabiyyeh platters for 3,000 L.L only!

My next stop was at Abdel Sattar Al Tom sweets in Al Zahriyyeh.


Maamoul bi ashta, Kneifeh bi ashta, and Mafroukeh! *Yummy*

Across the street from Al Tom, there’s anther shop that sells almost all kind of kaak and bread. My favorite is the kaak that can be grilled with cheese stuffed inside (it’s called Alleeta there) which can be the best souhour in Ramadan!

I might be going to Tripoli again next week and probably the week after, what other places do you recommend that I go visit?

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Lebanese blogosphere weekly link roundup (2010/08/22)

By on August 23, 2010 in Weekly Link Roundup

15 Links for this week’s roundup.

See you next week!

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JF Kennedy assassination mystery revealed

By on August 20, 2010 in Funny

46 years after his death, the assassination mystery of John F. Kennedy has been finally revealed! And guess what, Pierre Hashash who usually run for the parliamentary elections with sarcastic slogans had something to do with it!

Watch him telling the truth in this video.

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