Tag: beirut
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New Book: Beirut – New York
This is the story of how my upcoming book “Beirut – New York” came to be.
From Beirut to New York
Last summer, I took a vacation and traveled from Beirut to New York City. While the trip provided a much needed time out, the blow of coming back to everyday life in Beirut weighed on me.
My post-vacation blues got me wondering what makes certain cities more desirable than others.
Unexpectedly, I started noticing similarities between these highly incompatible cities: Beirut and New York City. (more…)
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Happy New Year 2011!
Thank you all for making 2010 a beautiful and successful year for this blog, and for me! Love you loads!!!
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Talk of the Town!
Hello guys! I missed you the past few days. I want to share with you this drawing I did during my participation to Talk of the Town show on MTV. It”s a parody of their TV ad that has been running, that you can watch here.
The show will be aired tonight, Thu 25 November, at 9:15PM Beirut time. You can also check it out . The shooting took 6 painful hours and I”m anxious about the outcome… We”ll see how it goes this evening…
Until then, here”s 2 delightful songs for you. “Strawberry Fields Forever” & “Here comes the sun” from the Beatles” Love album. Have a beautiful day 🙂
18 Here Comes The Sun_The Inner Light [Transition]Thank you Hayete for the songs!
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Let’s run!
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Who said laziness was bad? It’s the attitude that matters! I watched part of the marathon (and its sponsors) yesterday, in support of finding a solution to the causes of drugs and corrupt politicians :-). Other than that, I hope you had a great weekend.
Check out this lovely drawing I got from Elena Sabbagh. Thank you Elena!! 🙂
Have a great day! 🙂
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Once upon a parking spot
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The person who comes up with the best solution will win … (you guessed it) an iPad*! That’s the only idea for a gift that brands seem to have these days. So that was my parking nag for today. Now, Bob Dylan has something to sing for you. Enjoy and have a lovely day! 🙂
* The iPad part is a joke of course.
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Back to basics
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And to think… that our Minister of Public Works Ghazi Aridi answered ‘Right’ to the above! *Facepalm* If I were in charge I’d sentence him to a couple of hours of ‘Torture by traffic‘. Because of his decision, it took me 90 minutes to cross a road that would otherwise take 15 minutes. For more info check out Blog Baladi‘s comment on this.
But anyway, here’s a sweeter tone on the ears. Enjoy and have a beautiful day! 🙂
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Peace of land
In summary, it would be GREAT if the municipalities could set a quota (and enforce it) for building construction in residential areas according to market needs and nature preservation!
Today’s post was featured in Nowlebanon.com
If you’re around Beirut today at 6:30PM, I’ll be signing my book and participating to a debate in a pub in Gemmayze ‘Cheers & Wind‘. The debate is about: The Impact of Online Social Networking on the Lebanese Society’ followed by a Spanish light dinner for the hungry ones…
Today’s song is called Rhayader, it’s from Camel’s best masterpiece album that I LOVE: The Snow Goose. I love the flute in it, and I recommend you all to get the album 😀
Other than that, have a lovely day!
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It’s TONIGHT!
It’s finally the day!! See you all at Art Lounge-Karantina at 6:30PM. Can’t wait, miss you guys a lot! 😀
Here are the details again:
• Time: Starting 6:30PM
• Place: Art Lounge – Karantina – +961 3 99 76 76
• Event on Facebook: http://bit.ly/cU8vKx
See you in a while 😉 Until then, today’s theme song is…
