by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 9, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
New York, USA Actually brought to our attention by Najib at Blog Baladi: [embed_youtube src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/2AArRiT0PX4″] We are all pretty much on the same page that driving in Beirut is bad to say the least. As Marina Chamma puts it:...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 29, 2010 | Environment
The American University of Beirut, Nissan’s franchisee in Lebanon, Rymco Motors, and Banque Audi are testing the air to see how concentrated pollutants are in your average Beirut bumper-to-bumper traffic: Studies here have shown air pollution levels are...
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” –...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 25, 2009 | Power & Water, Society
I came across a dispatch on the GlobalPost titled, Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton … Beirut’s Back. The jest of the article revolves around the idea that Lebanon is the place to be because people get wasted on rooftops. That’s all great and fair though the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 10, 2009 | Lebanese Abroard
I have a personal motto: if it talks like a Lebanese and drives likes a Lebanese, its a Lebanese: Omar Budib, a Lebanese businessman currently residing in The Gambia, was, last week, fined by The Gambia Police Force, for allegedly insulting a female traffic police...
