Tag: beirut

  • AIDS… in Lebanon?

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    Translation of Arabic sentences:

    “B3id el sharr: God forbid!

    Sayer bi zahi2 hal TV: TV is so boring lately

    Sketo Naji tole3 ma3o sida. la2to mnel philipiniyye: Rumour has it that Naji is HIV positive! He caught it from the domestic worker at his house.

    Lah ya 7aram ya Rosanne. Shou hal ossa!: Oh no! Poor Rosanne.. What a disaster!”

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    So, today is World Aids Day 2009. In Lebanon, sex and all its derivatives are still rather taboo subjects. Besides, the not-so-alarming numbers of HIV-positive people makes the issue not-so-alarming comparing to other political or social problems. However, why wait until it is spread like in some other countries? The increasing sex-tourism approach to Lebanon, combined with the very high lack of STD awareness in Lebanon (mainly due to non-secular school systems) AIDS is very vulnerable to spread, and to spread fast. Let us not forget to raise awareness about it everytime we get the chance.

    Other Lebanese bloggers on World Aids Day:

    • Café Thawra

    • Chantal

  • ATMs & Sukleen union

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    It really bothered me seeing all those pieces of paper on the street in Jounieh (for a bank that I won’t name 😛 )! Usually when ATMs are inside the bank, they have a trash can next to them (which minimizes the thrown tickets), but when the ATM is on the street, it can get really messy! Good thing we have Ella to calm us down 🙂 Here’s a song dedicated to you! ‘It’s Only A Paper Moon’ by Ella Fitzgerald. Have a lovely day 🙂

  • Traffic Solutions

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    4-all-cds-in-car

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    5-all-radio-channels

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    6-solution-count-your-hair

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    7-twice

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    8-let-s-do-it

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    Now if this gets boring, you can push the challenge to level 2 by combining Y.A.S.’ song in the background “wa7ad, tnein, tleteh, arb3a, setteh, tna3sh, setteh, tna3sh… (it can get really confusing!) Yea so I have really exhausted all the possible ways of passing time in traffic, and yesterday evening, from Beirut to Jounieh, was HELL! Hope the weekend will make it up. Have a lovely weekend all 🙂

  • Unmissable!

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  • At the Salon du Livre

    I will be participating to a round table discussion around the theme of blog-turned-books at the 16e Salon du Livre Francophone in Beirut, BIEL, Agora, on Sunday, November 1st at  4:00 PM. There will also be Nathalie Bontems & David Hury from Chroniques Beyrouthines, Tania Hadjithomas Méhanna for publishing the blog ‘carnets de l’hirondelle’, Samer Karam from Blogging Beirut, & Ghassan Salameh from Kibot. The moderators of the discussion are Nada Akl & Elodie Morel.

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    Click here for the Facebook event. See you there 😉

    P.S. The discussion will be in French, if you want to bring your translators 🙂

  • Joke-smoke night

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    2-misinterpretation

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  • A hommos story

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  • Pecha Kucha

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    2-panicking

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  • Meeting with French press

    As you should all proudly know, Beirut is currently hosting the VIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie. The event has put our country into focus, especially by the french reporters and press who are getting to know and show how Leb really is.

    This week, Laurence Le Saux, french journalist, got in touch with me for an interview about the book, that she saw at Virgin.

    We met at Torino Café in Gemmayzé, where I also got to meet Emilie Mazoyer, who interviewed me for the french radio le mouv”. (Charbel from Scrambled Eggs was also there being interviewed). You can listen to the interview .

    I”m also posting you the interview right below (Thank you so much Patrick Semaan for helping me with this!)

    As for Laurence”s interview for Télérama.fr, you can see it here.

    What can I say… Vive la France! Sorry for not posting as usual in the last days, I am so overloaded with work, but hopefully things will get back on track after the weekend! On Sunday, I will be attending the #tripolitweetup, so if any of you are in the Tripoli area, it would be a great chance to get to meet you! Have a great week-end!!

  • Moron Island

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    4-eureka-lebanon

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    5-lebanon-map
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    6-greater-lebanon

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    7-beautiful-lebanon
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    8-shock

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    9-ripping-paper
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    10-no-to-cedar-island

    I was reading TimeOut magazine’s September issue, and I saw an article about the Cedar Island project. I had forgotten about it, when billboards reminded me of it again. In the article, the people intending to build the island were clear about how they don’t care about the environmental hazards that this project would cause. Even if Dubai built palm-shaped islands, we don’t have to do the same! We don’t NEED to do the same. Lebanon’s beauty is natural, and the issues we have are not a lack of touristic landmarks. I hope that this project will be resisted and will not take place. Otherwise I would believe it to be a major disfigurement to Lebanon. And that was the thought for today. Have a great day! 🙂




  • Mall revelation

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    3-why-are-streets-empty

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    4-no-beach

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    6-all-at-the-mall

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    7-electric-door

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    9-glass-peeking

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    10-electric-doors

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    11-crash

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    12-revelation

    To be continued tomorrow…

     

    Hello my darlings, I’ve been very slow in posting I’m sorry! but i need to catch up on a LOT of work + I’m preparing some X-filed surprises that I will tell you about hopefully soon!!! Ramadan Kareem to all concerned, didn’t have a chance to ‘3ayyedkon’ before. So this is the first part of the revelation, we’ll see tomorrow how the story unfolds 😛 Until then, have a lovely day! 🙂 (and to those of you who are not in Leb, the car on the wall of the mall is really there, it’s an ad, very creative one!)

  • Event photos

    As I promised you, I am adding a (very small) selection of images from the book signing! Click here for the public Facebook album. I hope this gives a general idea of how beautiful you guys made this event! + scroll down for a small-exclusive-top-secret-very-special image of the book in VIRGIN MEGASTORE DOWNTOWN!! 🙂 (you all know taking photos in Virgin is not allowed right? :P) Yes, yes, the book is officially in Virgin Megastore and Librairie Antoine all over Lebanon so run now to the closest bookstore and check it out!

    Posters, cookies & projection
    Posters, cookies & projection

     

     

    Izo, Elissar, and other posters
    Izo, Elissar, and other posters

     

     

    Book dedication in process
    Book dedication in process

     

     

    Friends gathering

    Friends gathering

     

     

    Reading the book
    Reading the book

     

     

     

    Beautiful crowd
    Beautiful crowd

     

     

    Friends gathering
    Friends gathering

     

     

    Zawyans gathering
    Zawyans gathering

     

     

    Signing a book
    Signing a book

     

     

    Checking out the posters
    Checking out the posters

     

     

     

    And for the FINALE…………………… 🙂

     

     

     

    Maya Zankoul's Amalgam in Virgin Megastore, Beirut Downtown
    Maya Zankoul's Amalgam in Virgin Megastore, Beirut Downtown

     

     

     

     With this, I wish you all a lovely weekend, see you Monday! 🙂