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Alexa as viewed from space

The Washington Post posted some photos that were taken yesterday by NASA of the snowstorm Alexa that hit the region last week.

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The white areas on the land are all snow, another wider photo shows that even a northern area of Saudi Arabia got a little bit of snow.

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On a side note, the author of the article might have to consider educating himself a bit more about the middle east as he thinks “it is quite something” to see snow around here and our neighbors!

 NASA’s Earth Observatory has posted a photo of the storm taken from space. It was taken Dec. 15, after the storm had passed and the skies had cleared; the white areas on the land are snow, not clouds. It’s quite something to see the snow across Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

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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.

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Priceless: Haifa Wehbi goes crazy over a prank by Ramez Galal

Ramez Galal is an Egyptian actor who’s very known there for his celebrity prank shows during Ramadan. Today’s episode of his show “Ramez Ankh Amon” featured Haifa Wehbe who was terrified after getting locked in a dark room with a mummy! Her reaction though was totally priceless once Ramez revealed himself, she started cursing him and the crew together, at some point she even started hitting them!

If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, start at the 11th minute mark.

Ramez by the way also pranked Cyrine Abdelnour last year.

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Mashrou’ Leila to appear on El Bernameg with Bassem Youssef

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I just came across an update by Mashrou’s Leila on Facebook announcing that they will be performing in Bassem Youssef’s show El Bernameg tomorrow night.

Bassem Youssef usually features Egyptian bands criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood with their songs, so I guess Mashrou’ Leila will most probably not be performing one of their songs but rather something special for tomorrow’s episode.

Thew show will be airing at 9:30PM on CBC and at 11:30PM on CBC+2.

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Lebanese Olympic team were not provided with a formal attire!

I’m not quite surprised with our government not providing the appropriate support to our Olympic team this year, but to disregard providing them with a formal attire is too much. Swimmer Katya Bachrouche wrote that the team had to make their entrance in warm-ups with duct-tape to cover the excess logos!

Still, we were of course laughing at the Egyptian team because they were provided with fake suits ignoring that our team had nothing to wear.

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