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• Boards and broads: Anything of beauty can be dramatically improved upon with the addition of a woman. Snowboard? Beautiful. Women on snowboards? Sex! Well, for the most part.
• Little fish: Some 2 million years ago, give or take ten minutes, in a cheery cave in central Africa, an ancestor paused in an unprecedented moment of consideration and regarded his mate.
• Got money: Rappers are philosophers, and while we've been mining into Confucius and Plato, these young G’s have had the answers to life, the universe and women all along.
• Media mystic: Known for her strong presence and edgy talk shows, not to mention her immensely popular astronomy books, Maguy Farah shares a bit of her past and future.
• Naked classics: Vanessa Nassar threatens to take the violin, and us with it, to new heights. After watching her carry it, I'm a believer.
• Special Olympian: Who would have thought that a Lebanese would bring back an Olympic medal? Edward Maalouf knew it all along; he only wishes his government appreciated it a bit more.
• Burned breakfast: When it comes to playing with food, nothing is more dangerous than ruining a man’s breakfast.
• Robots in disguise: 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 screen with a $200 million film.
• Concrete dreams: There's always a dormant dream in the city, waiting to be brought to life. Nadim Karam is the man bringing the old Beirut back, one forgotten building at a time.
• Naked Beirut: Creator of the first Middle Eastern erotic magazine, Joumana Haddad flirts with danger, and danger flirts right back. Ten seconds with her and you'll see why.
• Tone deaf: The best writers write effortlessly; as soon as their hands touch the keyboard their fingers weave pieces of their lives, dreams and that obscure art they saw while stumbling into the trash-bins drunk, on Friday night.