Lebanese cuisine is famous worldwide and is also the most popular of all Middle Eastern cuisines. Maybe it’s because of the great use of herbs and spices, or maybe because its multiculturalism: it was influenced by many cultures during the years. Lebanese food (image source) Lebanon has been ruled by foreign powers until 22 November …
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Hope for women
Protest for women’s rights in Lebanon (image source) Women in Lebanon, according to the World Report 2019, are subjected to discrimination under 15 separate religion-based personal status laws. Also, both child marriage and marital rape are, today, legal in the country. Everyday Lebanese women and girls are subjected to physical and mental discrimination, but not …
Lebanon: not just cuisine..
Lebanon is famous in the world for its great food. While writing this blog, I asked a friend of mine what he associated Lebanon with and told me he only knew about its amazing food. It’s quite sad that most of the people barely know anything about Lebanon beyond its cuisine and, maybe some older …
Beirut: beyond street art
“Nowadays few people go to art exhibitions, the art comes to them!” Chris Geiger. This is very much the case when you are walking around the city of Beirut. Here, and all over Lebanon, history has been the triggering factor for the kickoff of street art. ‘Evolution’ by Karim Tamerji (image source) I’m saying this …
Land of cedars
Lebanese cedar (image source) Welcome to the first post on my blog. Maybe you have already red it on my ‘about’ section, but I will be writing about Lebanon in the coming period. I thought it would be nice to start telling you something about a symbol that has represented this country for centuries: the …
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