by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 19, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Here’s a few tweets I picked up this week which proudly display their ignorance when it comes to Beirut: scottnealsays: “Brett, you’ve been home 6 hours and your room already looks like Beirut” mariquon: “Cairo once again looks like...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 26, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
I would like to thank France24’s Tatiana Khoury for the opportunity to spread my cyber-campaign to rid the world of the phrase “Looks Like Beirut”. It was a great experience; I was pleasantly surprised how well it turned out despite being my very...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 26, 2010 | Society
Turkey! Yep, the Lebanese-brewed cliche of skiing in the morning and sun bathing at sunset has been hijacked by the Turks in their latest “Go Turkey” tourism campaign blaring on UAE radio stations. Here’s the clip: Turkey Tourism Ad on UAE Radio...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 3, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
Today is International Cliche Day and so I’ve decided it would be a perfect time to remember the most memorable “Looks Like Beirut” comments of the past months: January 2009: “…I won’t spend a lot of money tearing down those houses....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 23, 2009 | Looks Like Beirut
That’s according to telegraph.co.uk’s Jonathan Russell’s opinion on the state of crime in London: An article in the greatly undervalued and generously over-punctuated Badge – billed as “the voice of the London cab driver’s club” –...
