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Bernard Khoury’s penthouse in Beirut

By on January 7, 2014 in Lebanon

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Bernard Khoury, the Lebanese famous architect who’s known for many projects like B018, Centrale, and many other places, had his penthouse featured in The Wall Street Journal last month.

This spacious penthouse in Beirut is owned by 45-year-old Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury. He chose a home with its hodgepodge city view over the more sought-after romantic sea view. It happened by circumstance, when his friend, Marc Doumit, a developer, bought the land on Damascus Road at a low price in the late 1990s after it had been sitting deserted for nearly a decade following the end of the 15-year civil war. Mr. Khoury’s family moved in last year.

The penthouse is 400 square meters with 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a swimming pool and an awesome view over Beirut and the mountains! You can check more photos of it here.

Bernard Khoury penthouse

via @LaCeline

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Virginia man arrested for trying to ship weapons to Lebanon

By on December 26, 2013 in Lebanon

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Juging by his name, Sam Rafic Ghanem, he seems to be of Lebanese origin, but how stupid can he be? I mean doesn’t he know about the arms trade with Syria through the uncontrolled borders? Even kids here are playing with Klashinkoves, so we definitely need nothing from Virginia!

Sam Rafic Ghanem, owner of an international shipping company with offices in the Washington suburbs, was arrested Saturday after an FBI sting, ABC News said.

The intended recipient of the weapons is not clear, but at one point Ghanem claimed he was recently asked to obtain two guns for an unnamed member of the Lebanese government, according to court documents filed in the case.

Over the past few months, Ghanem and a former employee of his company, Washington Movers International, devised “a scheme to send weapons to Lebanon by hiding them inside automobile parts shipped by the company,” court documents allege.

The former employee, though, was working as “an undercover source for the FBI,” ABC News noted.

Last Saturday, the source picked up Ghanem from his Springfield, Virginia home and drove to Washington Movers International’s offices in Maryland, where Ghanem helped stuff 10 handguns, 10 semi-automatic rifles and 18 “optic devices” into doors and other parts of salvaged vehicles, an FBI agent alleged in charging documents.

The car parts were then loaded into a shipping container, but the weapons hidden inside were “fake,” according to the charging documents. Ghanem was subsequently arrested.

via Naharnet

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LBC News anchor featured on AlBernameg with Bassem Youssef

By on October 30, 2013 in Lebanon

Bassem Youssef’s AlBernameg started airing again on TV and the first episode of this season featured one of the news anchor at LBC. (She appears at the 10m58s mark)

Jessica Azar from MTV also got featured the same way in one episode of the previous season.

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Star Academy finally got its first SEX scandal!

By on October 25, 2013 in Lebanon

While contestants in the European versions of Star Academy take the liberty to appear nude in front of cameras sometimes, Star Academy Lebanon makes a fuss out of a guy’s boner!

Filing this video under “sexual frustration”.

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Terrible traffic at Ouzai this morning

By on October 24, 2013 in Lebanon

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Earlier this month, minister Marwan Charbel imposed a new traffic plan on truck drivers to keep them from driving during rush hours in order to reduce congestion on the main roads.

The drivers eventually didn’t like this plan, so they started complaining about it in the media until they decided to go on a protest today. And being the geniuses they are, they didn’t do that in front of the ministry of interior or any other reasonable place, on the other hand, they simply decided to block the Ouzai highway which is used by thousands everyday to reach Beirut, which made people wait for like an hour or two in their cars this morning! I know because I was one of them.

Police officers were as usual just watching the protestors, and not daring to speak a word with them, while trying to organize the traffic a bit.

Balad mat3oub 3leih!

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PureGray at Le Gray Beirut among the top 10 spas in the middle east

By on October 24, 2013 in Lebanon

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According to this article in CNN Arabic today, PureGray Health Club at Le Gray Beirut is among the top 10 spas in the middle east along with the following places:

  1. Six Senses at Missoni Hotel in Kuwait
  2. Hello Kitty in Dubai
  3. Eternal Med Spa in Dubai
  4. Six Senses in Oman
  5. Biolite in Dubai
  6. Anantara in Dubai
  7. Banyan Tree Al Wadi in Ras El Khaimah
  8. Evason Ma’In Hot Springs in Jordan
  9. Asswan Spa at Burj El Arab in Dubai

I’ve never been to PureGray before but have always read positive feedback about it online. On the other hand, I’ve been to one of the Banyan Tree hotels when I was in Thailand back in 2011 and their service is truly impeccable.

Thank to Philippe Abou Zeid for the link

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Short documentary of 1983 Beirut marine barracks bombing

By on October 23, 2013 in Lebanon

On a day like this 30 years ago, a suicide bomber in a hijacked truck managed to bypass the barriers around the barracks and smashed right into the lobby of the main building before detonating his explosives.

The explosion was so big that it collapsed the building into rubble and killed 305 servicemen.

The video above is a short documentary told by two marine veterans who were serving in Beirut at that time, with footage and photos of the bombing.

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