Blogging Lebanon
since 2005
Blogging Lebanon since 2005
Today, April 30th, 2014 is the day I will officially mark as the day I stopped reading newspapers. It’s kind of a big deal for me, since I used to love spreading a broadsheet on a table with a coffee in hand and some nice jazz music playing softly in the background. But today is the day I found out I no longer wanted that.
Mustapha Hamoui · Apr 30, 2014
I just landed in Beirut Last night and I didn’t have a Lebanese SIM number. I wanted to talk with my family to tell them that I arrived safely and ask them if they needed anything from the so-called duty free shops.
Mustapha Hamoui · Apr 25, 2014
Ghosts from the past are not solutions to present problems..
Mustapha Hamoui · Apr 23, 2014
Politics in Lebanon feels today like politics in real democracies
Mustapha Hamoui · Apr 15, 2014
What would you say is the most important skill you can learn? In my experience, it is the ability to learn new skills and let go of old ones. This may seem trite, like a word play or a cop-out (like wishing for more wishes from a genie), but my experience makes me a sincere believer in it.
Mustapha Hamoui · Apr 4, 2014
I’ve been reading review after review of Bar Tartine, and every time I’ve had the same thought: This is such a nice place, too bad I’ll never get to try it. But with the news today that Bar Tartine has opened in ABC Ashrafieh, there’s now hope at last, because my dirty secret is that when I eat out in Lebanon, I only eat in malls.
Mustapha Hamoui · Mar 27, 2014
Why the formation of a new Lebanese government is a cause for celebration
Mustapha Hamoui · Feb 15, 2014
It is a crime against culture, against heritage and against the future to keep rare books away from scanners.
Mustapha Hamoui · Jan 6, 2014
The Shiaa-Sunni war is only a small part of a larger dynamic
Mustapha Hamoui · Jan 4, 2014
