by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 23, 2009 | Society
Just an interesting announcement, the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting will take place in Beirut from December 7th to the 12th: Arab bloggers from 19 countries [will] exchange knowledge, get training and support each other in their quest for freedom of expression in the Arab...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 11, 2009 | Society
The war with Israel has moved from the battlefields at the border to cooks in kitchens. As Israelimom had pointed out earlier this month: …an Israeli company has entered the book of Guiness World Records for the largest plate of Hummus. […] …Lebanon...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 10, 2009 | Society
Congratulations to Walid Raad for being one of the six finalists in this year’s Hugo Boss Prize: Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, and Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, Chairman of the Managing Board and CEO, Hugo Boss AG, today...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 8, 2009 | Security, Society
I usually steer clear of politics on this blog only because there are others who do a great job at tackling it than I do. But I came across this article in the UAE’s The National which I found quite interesting. The journalist is speaking to an unnamed...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 1, 2009 | Society
MasterCard has released a new survey calling Lebanese the most stingiest in the Arab World: The U.S.-based payment solutions provider said only 28 percent of those polled from Lebanon plan to make charitable donations, significantly less than any of the other five...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 29, 2009 | Society
Lots of talk online about the head of Lebanon’s Internal Security Force issuing an order to his men (and women) to vote for Jeita as one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World. As fellow blogger Rami mentions: Next week’s “unusual” order will be calling them to...
