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New Government on twitter!
It is always a great buzz monitoring Lebanese tweeps over government failures, collapses and formations, this is what happened in the first few minutes after the new government formation was announced:
Do you think the new government formation will make a difference in the development of our society? (Poll)
بعد ان تشكلت الحكومة.. لكم من الوقت تحتاج لوضع البيان الوزاري؟ (Poll)
MARCH!
The month of March can’t get anymore festive in Lebanon, almost everything is happening this March!!
1. Continuous marches against the sectarian regime across the country (twitter is flooding with images and tweets)
2. March 8/14 (no comment)
3. Lebanon Aggregator announced the “Top 10 Blogs in Lebanon”
4. March 9, Have you seen Old Beirut?
4. March 11, Lebanon’s No.1 Blog (see above) turns 1 .. This is Beirut by @meinlebanon
5. March 12, Lebanese Voices Blog turns 1!
6. March 14, Ink on the Side turns 1!
7. March15, The Maronite Church Elects Its 77th Patriarch
8. March 16 (TODAY) Blog Baladi turns 1 as well!!
(( baby-blog-boom last March 2010?!?!))
Upcoming:
9. March 22-25 Arabnet.me Conference next week in Beirut
10. March 24 Twestival Beirut if you haven’t planned to go yet, What are you waiting for?
11. More marches in March (maybe the name pun makes it an appropriate month for marching)
have we missed anything? let us know!
Freaking Out About Beirut Security! (via Ink On The Side – @sareen_ak)
Do you feel secure with all the security all over Beirut?
Well, Sareen has something to say about it…
via Ink On The Side
Posted in Misc.
On a Lebanese Movie Night.
Have you missed the trending topic of Lebanese movies last week!!
we caught a huge chunk of them for you!
Despicable You #Lebanesemovies
18 angry sect #LebaneseMovies
Pirates of Parliament #Lebanesemovies
You’ve Got (10 minutes later) Mail #Lebanesemovies
على فكرة: je t’aime #lebanesemovies
The Last King of Da7ieh #LebaneseMovies
The Wizard of Ouzaii #LebaneseMovies
Gone in 60 seconds #internet #electricity #water #Lebanesemovies
The Curious Case of Wael Kfoury #LebaneseMovies
Frank Miller’s ” SIN el Fil” #lebanesemovies
Nayla Moawad wears Prada #lebaneseMovies
Yalla nedbok? (shall we dance?) #LebaneseMovies
The Good, The Bad, And The Ye2borny #LebaneseMovies
Dude Where is my country? #Lebanesemovies
Remember Nothing #Lebanesemovies
The Kids are Severely Traumatized #Lebanesemovies
No Country for.. umm.. well.. Anyone #Lebanesemovies
Hotel Dauphine bil Hazmieh #Lebanesemovies
128 Dalmatians #LebaneseMovies
Sabaya gone wild #LebaneseMovies
Service (pronounced “ser-vees”) #LebaneseMovies
Letters to Juliet, …& Antoinette, & Bernadette, & Louisette… #LebaneseMovies
The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie #LebaneseMovies
Finding Chadi #Lebanesemovies
Le Fabuleux Destin Du Peuple Libanais #LebaneseMovies
Skybar Wars: Episode VVIP #lebanesemovies
Road Raging Bull #lebanesemovies
Four Nose Jobs and a Funeral. #LebaneseMovies
AlMashtoub (Scarface) #lebanesemovies
A Night at Mat7af #LebaneseMovies
Mr. & Mrs. Haddad #LebaneseMovies
Sleepless in Saida #LebaneseMovies
Despicable You #Lebanesemovies
ma fi 2amal #lebanesemovies
Sabah’s Four Wedding but No Funeral #LebaneseMovies
The Meh, the Beh and the Tfeh #LebaneseMovies
The trend of tagged phrases continues this week with #5wordsaftersex but that would be #NSFW , but you can imagination the possibilities.
Enjoy!
Posted in Misc.
Is 2010 over already!?
Hello tweeps of 2011 .. is 2010 over already! phew!
As usual the main indicator of any new year is …
*drum roll*
more drama in Lebanese politics! NO! that’s everyday!
the new year always starts with the Predictions!
We predict that nothing new will happen this year!
@trellalb will continue to curse politics
@mich1mich will run #Michcafe as wonderful as ever
@footnem & @krikOrianM will take more great photos
@funkyOzzi will add more wonderful Lebanese blogs to LebanonAggregator.com
@_Archangelus_ will remain anonymous
@naeema will make even more great designs
@Danyawad will run #Pubdany (Happy Hour every tuesday@midnight)
@figo29 will still tweet & blog football!
@LeGustav will continue to have the most drooling sweets in beirut!
and everyone else will contribute to the twitter & blog community just as wonderfully & creatively as they did in 2010.
Another new year indicator! the stars! (horoscopes, not hollywood)
Astrologers decided to finally come out of the closet with “Ophiuchus” (i don’t know who wants to be that anyway!) & so,the twittosphere decides to unanimously dethrone the new horoscope and stick to the old calendar!
On anther note, the cure to procrastination is still unsolved.
Until then Beirut Tweets remains…
Happy 2011
Zajjaliyat with twitter-ian nights
In the Days of winter, we’d like to think its due to the extra red-wine being abused to warm up and compensate for the lack of electricity to heat the houses, nights are long and cold, and therefore invite people to spend time entertaining each other “fo2 2a63it il kahraba” (over the power-cut). In the past few days this phenomena translated into twitter to bring you: “Zajjaliyat twitter-ian Nights” featuring: @Danyawad (D) @Emiliehasrouty (E) @BeirutBilArabeh (B) with further participation from the wonderful tweeple in the Audience.
(B) سحَّبت من عمر الزمن خيطان / لونهن من لون شفافها الحمرا / وطرّزت فيهن قبة الفستان / الرح تحترق من تلجة الجمرة / ـ وقلتلها لبسيهن والشمس حدّة / فزعان تكوي الورد المندّي / قالت ما فيها الشمس تكوي شمس / وعن إذنك فساتين ما بدّي / وليلة شربت السحر وتغـّيرت / ودخلت غرفتها من ورا الأحلام / وقرّبت صوب المخدة وصرت / رش الغفا بعيونها تتنام نامت وحلمت حالها حدي / وصارت تطبع جمر عا خدي / وشوخفت يفلت من عيونا الحلم / وتوعى الصبح وتقول ما بدّي ولما عْرِفِتْ ما في أمل يحلا / عنقودها، فتشت عا أحلى / لـِم عرفت العصفور منها طار / من غير وعي من عيونها الكحلى / ـ نزلت دمعة اليا ريت / تسقي الزرار بعروة المريول / وصارت من بعد ما تركتها وفلّيت / تركض ورايي، حافية وتقول /
(E) يا غاوي شعر و حلوين/ احترت و فيك العقل احتار/ تفضل قللي انت مين / طبعك تلج و طبعي نار
(D) من قهري نزلت دمعتي/ بيرضيكن يا عالم شو صار؟/ انا ملهي بجامعتي / وهني عم يلقوا أشعار
(E) تسلم عيونك من دمع و من بكي/ معقول داني تعب عم يشتكي/ وقّفت قول الشعر و قرايتو/ حتى تفضالنا و يحلا الحكي
(D) يا ايمي يا احلى بنت / لتوقفي عن قول الشعر.. ممنوع / ان كنت او ما كنت / خلي صوتك بالزجل مرفوع
(B) تا قلِك مين أنا مين بدي أعملـِك فلجة / وتحتى تطفي نارِك تعي غلّي بتلجي
(E) قال بدو يعملي فلجة/ مدري مفكر حالو مين/ رح حط بصدرو خلجة/ بتجيبو متل الشاطرين
(E) داني يللا انا زهقت/ خلص هالفرض و شرف/ من نومي انا هلق فقت/ وسهراني غني و ألّف
(B) بعمري القمح عالبيدر ما دارس / قضيت العمر بأحسن مدارس / وبوقت الفحص قضـّيها ما دارس / حرمني الحب إفتح كتاب…
وما زال الحوار مستمراً…
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If you want to enjoy more Zajal, Please visit this post written by @BeirutBilArabeh.
So if you want these warm nights to continue, pop the Red-Wine bottles at #Pubdany at 10:30 (beirut time) 😉
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,400 times in 2010. That’s about 11 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 26 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 109 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 38mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 11th with 790 views. The most popular post that day was al-Akhbar Saturday 11-12-2010.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, facebook.com, networkedblogs.com, lebanonaggregator.blogspot.com, and hootsuite.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for akhbar beirut wordpress, akhbar beirut.wordpress, http://www.akhbarbeirut.wordpress.com, akhbar beirut, and al akhbar wordpress.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
al-Akhbar Saturday 11-12-2010 December 2010
2
al-Akhbar issue Thursday 9-12-2010 (Updated file) December 2010
2 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
3
al-Akhbar Firday 10-12-2010 December 2010
4
Beirut Speed Radars Positions.. November 2010
1 comment
5
عندما يرقص القمر في ديره | فرقة مين في دير القمر August 2010
1 comment and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
Beirut Speed Radars Positions..
Thanks to @Yasminehajjar
OK folks, Here’s the list where those nasty radars are located in Beirut, try to avoid tickets.
That doesn’t mean not to drive safely and to obey the speed limit rules..
Radar Positions are:
-Radar spotted near ABC Dbayeh on the bridge leading to Naccache.
-Radar spotted near on autostrade Al Naher near MTC bldg.
-Radar spotted on the bridge exactly facing Burj al Ghazal on the other side.
-Radar spotted at Saint Georges Harriri spot.
-Radar spotted at the highway from Ouzaii coming to Unesco.
-Radar spotted at Ramleh el bayda highway.
-Radar spotted at tarik al mattar new highway.
-Radar spotted at Mathaf highway.
-Radar spotted at hazmieh new highway facing alfa.
-Radar spotted at old nahr highway facing peugeot.
The ISF are informing people to abide by the 100 kilometer speed limit on major highways and 50 kilometers in cities!
You can check whether you have been spotted by the radar on the following link:
http://www.isf.gov.lb/Arabic/Pages/TrafficTicket.aspx
Congrats
Just wanted to mention that Beirut tweets is mentioned on GlobalVoicesOnline.org
“Beirut Tweets is a blog covering the Lebanese Twittersphere (or Twitosphere). It reports about the social, cultural and artistic events and tweetups of the Lebanese Tweeps” http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/09/18/lebanon-beirut-tweets/
“أنشئت مؤخراً مدونة بيروت تويتس لتغطية مجتمع تويتر اللبنانيّ. حيث تغطي المدونة الأحداث الاجتماعية والثقافية والفنية التي يجري ذكرها في تويتر وأيضاً تجمعات مستخدمي تويتر في لبنان.” http://ar.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/09/29/7647/
we appreciate and are proud of the mention and want to thank the countless tweeps that are apart of this, beirut tweets wouldn’t exist without you all!
تفاحة للموت (via PaSionata en Mi Majeur)
Again, another poem by @maeiva.. This time she didn’t leave any place to comment..
Enjoy the power of the words..
Posted in Misc.
El Ramadan Events …
In the event if the holy month of Ramadan #Pubdany will be pleased serve Jallab, Amar il Din and an assortment of fresh drinks to enjoy with your argeeleh (shisha) every night… ( for those that still want their Jack Daniels, fee sans alcohol + jallab flavored) @danyawad
#Michcafe will also be open from iftar onwards, serving coffee and an assortment of ramadan sweets! @mich1mich
“Ramadan” started trending on twitter worldwide since yesterday!
In the event of the holy month @lebanesevoices will be hosting the online series of the month (for those that are as bored with “neighborhood door” as @trellalb) of blogs that talk about “issues that concerns the Lebanese society and a solution that could be learnt from other societies or even previous Lebanese habits.” the series remains unnamed at the moment.
and the month starts with the first of great series of restricting the existence of the truth on facebook: “@sdkaaa : Lebanese Fadi Gedeon’s #facebook page was Disabled for offending #israel http://bit.ly/aRxuTP #fb ” (blog by @sdkaaa)
Posted in Misc.
Killing Dogs in Borj Hammoud!
@BeirutSpring came across this sad fact that Borj Hammoud Municipality is shooting stray dogs in the streets! I find it inhuman and barbaric. there are many ways to get rid of stray dogs rather than shooting them.
Can anybody do something?
Original tweet:
@Beirutspring: Burj Hammoud Municipality To Shoot Stray Dogs http://goo.gl/fb/Dlzdn
Beirut Tweets | بيروت تويتس 