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I was watching this video and thought I’d dig out the prices of the foods they looked at in Lebanon. I asked few friends and got an estimate:
Banana: 5$ = 5-6 Kilos (Local), or 2-3 Kilos (Imported).
Coffee: 5$ = 0.5 Kilos
Rice: 5$ = 6-7 Kilos
Potato: 5$ = 6-7 Kilos (Local).
Beef: 5$ = 0.5 Kilos
Eggs: 5$ = 12-24 eggs (Price is varying a lot lately)
Beer: 5$ = 5-6 Almaza beers.
You can buy a lot of beer with 5$ in Lebanon, but not as much as China.

This year, during the Beirut Corporate Games, which took place at Jamhour on the 18th and 19th of May a new kind of competition took place. For me to mention it here, it obviously involves food. Classic Burger Joint held a competition, where by who eats the most burgers in 5 minutes, wins a $100 »more...

Interesting article I read today in the The Telegraph:  The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. In Lebanon, we use olive oil in abundance, its on most dinning tables »more...

Last picture of the group on the small boat taken by the yacht’s skipper – via DailyStar

That’s quite an unfortunate incident. According to TimesOfMalta, the sea was calm when the group left but there was a sudden change in weather later on with winds reaching up to force six.

Image credit: Nadim Nasr

Teens celebrating the end of school Life, reminds me of my own teen life and how much I hated school!

Every single day, I was cursing at school, forcing myself to go, just trying to survive.

Ahmad Ajam, better known as DJ maDJam, is an extremely good friend of mine. His birthday party has become a time-honored tradition year after year where lotsa awesome people get together for good drinks, great food and even better music on the rooftop of his house in Beirut.

I hope they don’t end up destroying it just to replace it with a hotel. I am not counting on Gaby Layoun for that though.
In addition to the possible Roman gate and road revealed in a previous post, the Landmark site dig (which could be replaced by a 5 star Jean Nouvel hotel) seems to be full of treasures.
Among them are what some archeologists believe could be the remnants of a 4th-5th century Byzantine Basilica.
In these wide shots we can see a number of large white-ish mosaic floors, thought to have belonged to the Basilica:

Picture taken from Moulahazat.com

Not sure if this is sharia-style sexism, or this is the party bus that transports “performers” from one strip club to the other at night…
Thank you Elie Issa!

Update: Lana Del Rey will also be performing at the Byblos Festival on July 10th even though it wasn’t officially declared yet. [Source]

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The 4G network will only support data at the moment to be followed by calls and SMS by end of June
I tried the 4G SIM on both the Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Note2 and I couldn’t get a 4G sign even though I put the right configuration. I don’t know if I misunderstood Alfa’s official statement but they did specify a list of devices that work on the Alfa 4G network during the launch:

If you happen to be going towards Beirut and stop on the right side of the Jounieh Highway (Between EDL Zouk Power Plant and Nahr el Kalb), watch out for these randomly open holes as they could seriously screw up your car.