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  • 60 Years Old Fisherman From Tripoli Is The New Loto Billionaire

    This is definitely not the first time someone claims the grand prize in Lebanese lottery and I bet we all feel some envy every time someone does. But in the case of this man, Ahmad Dandash, I guess that you can’t but feel delighted it went for someone who really deserves it.

    The 60 years old fisherman seems to have been going through some difficult times and was unable to afford helping any of his kids get an apartment until he scored the loto. Feel free to call it fixed or arranged, but the video and the whole thing is heartwarming.

  • Lebanon Has The Highest Number of Billionaires Per Capita

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    Forbes Middle East released their list of the world’s richest Arabs in 2016 headed by Prine AlWaleed Bin Talal (17.3 Billion) and 7 unsurprising names from Lebanese made it to the list this year.

    12. Najib Mikati, 2.5 Billion
    12. Taha Mikati, 2.5 Billion
    15. Bahaa Hariri, 2.2 Billion
    23. Robert Mouawad & family, 1.5 Billion
    25. Saad Hariri, 1.4 Billion
    31. Ayman Hariri, 1.2 Billion
    32. Fahd Hariri, 1.2 Billion

    With these figures, Lebanon turned out to be the country with highest number of billionaires per capita in the Arab world.

    But for some reason I always have a hard time believing that these lists report the exact number of billionaires in Lebanon and the other countries simply because we lack transparency here in our region. The Mubarak family of Egypt for example never made it to any “Richest Arabs” list, and we only knew about their billions after they were overthrown.

    In our case, we have politicians who have been active for more than 30 and 40 years now like Berri and Joumblat, and I highly doubt these two have not been able to make a couple billions throughout their long years of “serving” the nation.. so yeah there’s definitely more to add to that Forbes list.