Summertime, and the living is, well, strange. Beirut goes through a cotton shortage in the summer, and our poor, underprivileged women have to walk the street with hardly a scrap of clothing to cover their, um, honor. Fret not ladies, for every one of your exposed strolls I guarantee there are half a dozen warm-blooded [...]
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 power failures are the government’s problem, the patchwork roads entirely fault of the municipalities – certainly not our problem.
And trash on the road, for instance, is definitely somebody else’s problem.
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, and has become a hub for thinkers and dissidents who dream of change. Mustafa Zicco relates.
Votes should not be purchased. If voting is meant to be a cornerstone of freedom then votes cannot carry a price tag, because freedom would itself then have a price, and no longer be free.
Painter and teacher Ghada Saghiyeh has a bone to pick with Beirut. Karl Baz looks behind the muted, angry art and into woman.
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You You You are getting married!! Mabrouk 
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