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• 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 ...
• Meen meen?: Meen are the definitive Lebanese anti-band, and while their lyrics are obscure and sometimes outright silly, you can't help but be moved by their musi...
• Vote for Lira: 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 the...
• Behind the blush: The makeup artist behind all the pretty faces from your neighbor's wedding to Elie Saab's fashion shows, the beautiful Hala Ajam gives me a look behin...
• Brushing aside: Tony el Mendelek is a hairdresser, one of the best hairdressers in the country. But ask him if his work can change society and he'll laugh in your fac...
• Hi, keefak? Ca va?: Writer, publisher, lecture organizer and cultural expert Henri Zoghaib shares his incredible love for Lebanon and enthusiasm for literature.
• The sum of all teddy bears: Wee Willie Winkie was an evil (evil!) character that entered my life via a series of Scottish bedtime nursery rhymes my mother read to me throughout m...
• Lock 'em up: Somewhere in the 19th century, a New Zealander drove the final nail into the patriarchal hierarchy coffin and gave women the right to vote. This was w...
• Master of puppets: Charbel Khalil made his name by finding Bin Laden, straightening out politicians and generally dismissing the country's leaders; something he still do...
• 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...
• Covet the violin: Vanessa Nassar threatens to take the violin, and us with it, to new heights. After watching her carry it, I'm a believer.
• Lift your voices up: Magida el Roumi may have been singing for over 30 years, and despite the dip in optimism, her passion for peace is undimmed.
• Why thank you too, sir: Some 2 million years ago (give or take ten minutes) in a somewhat cheerier cave in central Africa, an ancestor of ours paused in an unprecedented mome...
• Kung Fu Redhead: With a masterful hand it forms her curves, sprays on the exact shade of tan that communicates directly to your desire, rips out a few stars to make th...
• Body of evidence: Memory is quite the fragile faculty, subject to time, lies, alcohol abuse and a hundred different errors that could erase the presumably unforgettable...