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• Toon out: Armand Homsi has spent the better part of his life speaking out through cartoons. Known mostly for his contributions to An Nahar, he never shies away ...
• Garage band: One of the most active organizers in the music industry, Jyad el Murr busies himself with his Instruments Garage, two music stations (Nostalgie and NR...
• Chinese dumplings: Imagine a world where your pleasure is of singular importance, where everyone eagerly caters to your every whim and defines the quality of their very ...
• Call me Jack: Remember that part in The Shining, when Jack Nicholson breaks an axe through the bathroom door to better communicate with his screaming, cowering ...
• Mind the nose: 'Hi, is this Karl?' 'With a sandwich in his mouth, who's this?' 'I know you don't recognize the voice, but we were very close friends.' ...
• Save our souls: Mama Jamale is a surrogate mother to more than 30 children. She has helped two generations of SOS Village children and looks forward to supporting man...
• Old hogs: Summertime, and the living is, well, strange. Beirut goes through a cotton shortage in the summer, and our poor, underprivileged women have to ...
• Function's form: Rabih Kayrouz lets Beirut speak through his designs. He believes that good clothes, like good homes, should be as comfortable to live in as they are b...
• Apologize: Something crashes, something smashes, and something meows in excruciating pain. Two minutes later he walks out victorious, but visibly shaken. He glar...
• If love is blind: Who knows your heart? Friends? Family? Professionals? We set two guinea pigs, Karl Baz and Nayla Aramouni, on three dates apiece to find out.
• Transformer: The man to blame for over a hundred music video clips and dozens of popular advertisements, Lebanese Said el Marouk has taken his show to the silver s...
• Trash talk: One of our most fascinating skills as a people, is the ability to delegate responsibility. I suppose we're actually justified every so often; the powe...
• Start something: Zicco House is much more than just the poetry readings and concerts at the Samra Bar: it's a launching pad for the country's most prominent movement, ...
• Sugar, spice and hair removal: Lebanese producer and silver screen heroine Nadine Labaki is pleasantly surprised by her success, and grateful for the learning experience.
• Tone deaf: My name is Karl, and there’s no music in my head. I realize it may not seem like a problem, but see that tune you were humming in the bathroom ...