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On Jackie Chamoun and Chirine Njeim posing topless in Faraya
Al Jadeed posted today a video of Jackie Chamoun (who’s currently competing at the Olympics in Sochi) and Chirine Njeim posing topless on Faraya ski slopes for six-time Mexican Olympic skier and photographer Hubertus von Hohenlohe.
The photos were meant to be published in Hubertus’ calendar “Ski Instructors”.
Needless to say, Al Jadeed are calling it a scandal and were wondering if the Lebanese Ski Federation was aware about these photos since it “harms our reputation”, as if our reputation worldwide really needed two gorgeous skiers posing to the camera to get ruined!
Regardless of whether our society is conservative or not, I believe Chirine Njeim and Jackie Chamoun are totally free to do what they want, especially that a lot of international athletes have posed either topless or completely nude and it’s nothing strange to sports.
You can check the truth about these photos here, and below is what Jackie Chamoun had to say about them.
It was positive for me. I don’t regret it at all. When I started my job, for example, people when they search for me on the web sometimes they can see these pictures directly so you think maybe it’s not the best thing, not the best image you can give someone of you. But, I don’t really care, though. I really enjoyed it and I don’t regret it. I like these photos. I have no problem with it.
Al Jadeed could use a chill pill, no?
P.S: The video is NSFW
New Year celebrations around the world
While most of the world cities celebrated New Year with some spectacular fireworks display, Dubai chose take it a bit further this year and succeeded in breaking the world record for the largest fireworks display. They crushed the record previously set by Kuwait by firing more than 400,000 shots in around six minutes!
Anyway, make sure to check this article on BuzzFeed for a glimpse of how the rest of the world celebrated last night.
Paris
Copacabana
New York
VIP Prisoner in Roumieh
This guy made it to the news today for living like a king behind the bars in Roumieh prison! It seems like he has his own room inside the prison and manages to get really good food delivered to him almost everyday!
Shake Shack now open at Beirut City Centre
I’ve been waiting for Shake Shack to open at Beirut City Centre for so long now and it finally did today. The place is fairly spacious with glass barrier around the kitchen so you can see where all the magic happens, and the staff is quite friendly and welcoming.
I ordered a signle ShackBurger (American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and ShackSauce) and was glad to experience the same great flavor I once had in Shake Shack Dubai.
Once you get your order you can’t but notice that their burgers are kind of small, but as soon as you finish your meal you will realize you actually got the right portion due to the fatty beefy meat which will make you feel full (or almost full depending on how big is your apetite!).
However, and despite being really really good, I felt like their prices are a little bit high. For example, you pay 11,000L.L for a single ShackBurger, and an additional 10,000L.L for regular fries and Pepsi. But then again, they follow the same pricing scheme almost everywhere. Still, this certainly wont stop me from totally recommending it. Do go try it and treat your taste buds to some great burgers!
Maxime Chaaya to set a new world record today?
I’ve been following RowingTheIndianOcean.com on a regular basis to keep up with Maxime Chaaya’s progress on his new adventure. And I just noticed now he has less than 20Km to reach the island of Mauritius, so he will most probably finish crossing the ocean by today I guess.
This means his team will not only be the first 3-man team to cross the indian ocean, but also the fastest since the current record is held by the 8 person crew who took 58 days 15 hours and 8 minutes to complete the row back in 2009, and Maxime Chaaya’s team has until tomorrow night to break it. I wish them all the luck!
Ramadan in Tripoli
I was browsing through Facebook the other day and came across these cool photos of Tripoli streets during Ramadan, all taken by the talented Nour Kabbara.
If you live somewhere outside Tripoli, you can’t but notice how much more authentic Ramadan feels in that beautiful city! Having a Suhoor there someday is definitely on my to-do list.
Photos from Maxime Chaaya’s journey rowing the Indian ocean
As you probably know, Maxime Chaaya is currently on a new adventure rowing the Indian ocean. He departed from Australia on June 9th and has so far crossed 4,600Km with around 1,100Km remaining to arrive to Mauritius Island off the East Coast of Africa.
Below are some photos of his journey he has been uploading to his twitter account recently.
You can follow a live coverage of Maxime’s adventure on RowingTheIndianOcean.com. Wishing him all the luck to make it safe and sound!
Lebanon’s first beauty queens
I was surprised to find these old photos of Miss Lebanon 1930 Leila Zoghbi as I never knew Lebanon had any beauty queens prior to the sixties!
Upon searching further, I also found we had two other beauty queens from 1935, Samia Baroudi, and 1955, Hanya Beydoun. But while there was no photos of Samia Baroudi, I found a couple of photos for Hanya Beydoun from Miss Universe in Long Beach, California.
The first photo shows her standing next to Miss Israel back then, and in the second photo wearing Lebanese traditional clothing (first to the right).
Photos via @ghachaa, Bid Start, Paraíso de Reinas, and Glamour Argentino
Photos from the clashes in Saida
The clashes between Ahmad Al-Assir gunmen and the Lebanese army have been going for around 24 hours now and it seems like the army is determined on either arresting Ahmad Al-Assir or getting him out of his complex in a body bag.
According to The Daily Star, the clashes have so far claimed the lives of at least 17 soldiers and more than 25 gunmen.
Below are some photos I managed to collect through twitter as well as a video showing some bodies of the gunmen. I hope it all end soon for the good people of Saida.
