Panel to challenge Boutros Road
The Civil Coalition Against the Boutros Highway is hosting a panel and discussion this Tuesday on the battle…
Worst NY Times lead paragraph ever
The New York Times logo In journalism schools across America, students are often instructed to read and purchase…
Update: New photos inside Saifi dig
Soon after posting about the ruins discovered at the Saifi Plaza excavation, an activist got in touch over…
Ruins cleared at Saifi Plaza
There appears to be nothing left of a major downtown Beirut excavation that took place here a month…
Male bellydancer woos audiences
The news has been a bit heavy lately, so I thought I’d let you know that joy still…
Police beat journalists on video
The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban A video has recently surfaced documenting police beating journalists this week. The reporters were…
Guy in “ISIS photo” can’t stand ISIS
In a story going viral on social media, John McCain is supposedly pictured with members of the extremist…
Municipal work? Start a fire
The municipality of a certain village was forced to call the fire department this week for a fire…
Lucky Rima
It’s easy to get the depressed with all the violence in the news these days and the knee-jerk jingoism…
Panic on the radio
In a country where FM radio stations often play pop music as gun battles or massive protests rage…