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• Cupcakes - the new Middle East Dessert?

  
  Dia Diwan - Your Gateway to Middle East Chic — Authority: 125
  By now most are also familiar with Sugar Daddy’s Bakery, which was responsible for starting the cupcake craze in the region. First opened in Amman, and soon followed by branches in Beirut and Dubai, Sugar Daddy’s has been attracting a steady following with its selection of cupcakes that mix whimsical designs and ...
  7 hours ago

• MOKing Fashion

  
  Dia Diwan - Your Gateway to Middle East Chic — Authority: 125
  MOKing Fashion: A new concept in design and retailing hits the Beirut fashion scene. A fashion scene was unfolded as statuesque models stepped forward from behind a backdrop of modernist buildings on the stage of Theatre Monot in Beirut. Each coiffed and made up to resemble modern-day Grecian goddesses, the models ...
  10 hours ago

• Technical Divers Explore the HMS Victoria

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 428
  Report by Leigh CunninghamOn the 19th of September 2009 a team of British, German, Dutch and Lebanese technical divers set out on the quest to dive the HMS Victoria off the coast of Lebanon.The re-named HMS Victoria was the flagship of the British fleet in the Mediterranean during that late part of the 19th century. ...
  15 hours ago

• Going Downtown in Beirut - in Lebanon

  
  Heather on her travels — Authority: 119
  The Downtown area of Beirut is the place to wander of an evening in central Beirut and stop for a drink or a meal. The area is a relatively small area of streets and squares which have been made into a showcase or smart shops and restaurants and a place where Lebanese families like to go to eat out. Nightlife in ...
  1 day ago

• Hezbollah denies link to arms ship seized by Israel

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 577
  beirut (reuters) - lebanon’s hezbollah guerrilla group denied on thursday any connection with a shipment of weapons that israel said it had intercepted on the high seas.israeli officials said on wednesday that naval commandos had seized a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of iranian-supplied arms, including rockets, ...
  2 days ago

• Malls Here, There, Everywhere!

  
  Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept — Authority: 424
  The developer that brought us Mall of the Emirates (and its Ski Dubai) and (if you are familiar with the GCC) the myriads of City Centres is now expanding into the rest of the Middle East : Majid Al Futtaim Properties, the largest developer of shopping malls in the Middle East…is looking at over 14 projects in ...
  3 days ago

• Beirut Rock Festival 2009

  
  My Lebanon is being burned to ashes — Authority: 459
  Click on image to enlarge! Beirut Rock Festival to take place on November 11, 13 and 14 at the Forum de Beyrouth. Its great to finally see Lebanon hosting such events again, I think if Im not mistaken, this is the first Beirut Rock Festival, and for a start its hosting some good bands, including one of my favorites ...
  4 days ago

• US “hearts” Lebanon…well…some of them or at least some of the time

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 128
  The US has a dualism in its relations with Lebanon. While it continues to condemn Hezbollah, has a checkered military history there, it does still like to give Lebanon largesse gifts of arms from time to time. Of course, the US foreign policy of military sales and assistance to select partners is one of the ...
  4 days ago

• +961 claims victory in the 2009 USJ election

  
  +961 — Authority: 503
  The student body election at the Saint Joseph University ended YESTERDAY, however until now I still have no idea about the real winner in this election! Is it the Lebanese Forces? Is it March 14 coalition? Is it the Free Patriotic Movement? Is it March 8 coalition? Is it the “الزحف الشيعي على ...
  4 days ago

• International Cliche Day: A LLB Look Back

  
  Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept — Authority: 424
  Today is International Cliche Day and so I’ve decided it would be a perfect time to remember the most memorable “Looks Like Beirut” comments of the past months: January 2009: “…I won’t spend a lot of money tearing down those houses. If that’s going to be Beirut, let it be Beirut, but don’t let ...
  5 days ago

• Chronik Webzine – Novembre 2009

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 465
  CHRONIK WEBZINE – Festival Diapason, Kill Hannah, Beirut, Marie-Pierre Arthur, Mobile, Silversun Pickups, The New Cities» Cours la chance de gagner une paire de billet pour assister à un des artistes présent au Festival Diapason! Les billets disponible à gagner sont pour Mille Monarques, Think About Life et ...
  5 days ago

• The Mary Onettes on Guilty Pleasure

  
  Retarded Fantasy — Authority: 113
  Swedish act The Mary Onettes dropped by my show tonight to play a few songs off their album, which is out tomorrow. Ive been into them ever since Josh from Blacklist turned me on to their songs, so it was nice to get the new album and meet the guys. They were a bit shy, so there isnt too much talking. I also ...
  5 days ago

• 50 Albums of the Decade

  
  Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good: both challenging and delicious — Authority: 462
  (photo by dcdead ) I told myself I wasn’t going to do a decades album list. I mean how can you really rank all your favorite albums over a period of ten years that isn’t even completed yet? Over the last couple of months though, I found myself slowly beginning to compile a list of my albums from the 00’s that ...
  6 days ago

• Treasure Island Music Festival

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  Treasure Island, not only a book by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a bizarre little spit of fill in between San Francisco and Oakland, next to the anchor point for the Bay Bridge. A former naval base built out of soil dragged out of the Bay, it’s the legacy of an overfunded Army Corps of Engineers, who, if they had ...
  6 days ago

• Logorrhea, Mufti-Style

  
  A Diamond's Eye View of the World — Authority: 491
  When it rains, it pours. and pours. and pours. and sometimes pours out so much that it starts to sound rabid. or maybe just very, very, very post-modern. When I clicked on Naharnet’s evening headline, Jouzo: Let the Lebanese Maronite and the Rest of Lebanon Go Back to Syria , what I hoped to find were a few ...
  6 days ago

• Israeli zen.

  
  A Diamond's Eye View of the World — Authority: 491
  I have a love-hate relationship with the Jerusalem Post . Love the easy access to its archives; hate its stance on many issues. But this afternoon I’m simply impressed with its Naharnet-like ability to put even the most inane statements to good use. The Post ’s article about the ongoing two-and-a-half-way ...
  1 week ago

• another day, another Naharnet mystery

  
  A Diamond's Eye View of the World — Authority: 491
  To be fair, today’s Naharnet “What?” looks like more of a Lebanese government “What?” – and its one I would love to understand. Here’s the start of the article – this morning’s headliner , about the LAF’s recent arrest of a Fatah al-Islam figure (which in U.S. journalistic practice would be ...
  1 week ago

• Encounters with the first fall of September Rain (Sketches)

  
  Muzna's Stories — Authority: 112
  Sketch 1: Somewhere in North California (based on Hollywoodian influences) They are sitting on green grass. It is late in the afternoon, a breeze comes their way and interrupts their conversation. They don’t pay attention to the warning;
  1 week ago

• Treasure Island Music Festival

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  Treasure Island, not only a book by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a bizarre little spit of fill in between San Francisco and Oakland, next to the anchor point for the Bay Bridge. A former naval base built out of soil dragged out of the Bay, it’s the legacy of an overfunded Army Corps of Engineers, who, if they had ...
  1 week ago

• Review: The years best Police procedural

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 120
  Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies By Stewart Copeland Publisher UK: The Friday Project US: HarperStudio Just because I write crime fiction doesn’t make me obsessed by The Police. However, this new memoir by The Police drummer is absolutely the most delightful surprise of the year. ...
  1 week ago

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