Lebanese Memes: Exams in Lebanon

This actually happened at the Lebanese University: no electricity and the power generator broke. Lucky students, I guess. You know the average on this exam turned out to be really high.

Lebanese Memes: Car Accidents in Lebanon

You know it’s true…

 

We Found Love – Boyce Avenue (Rihanna Cover)

I heard this at a very cool pub in Batroun yesterday and I think it puts the original to shame.

Listen up:

They made the song their own and did a great job as well.

 

World Press Photo of the Year – Samuel Aranda

Samuel Aranda just won the World Press Photo of the Year for a shot he took back in October 2011 while working in Yemen for the New York Times.

This is the photo:

Jurors said the photo captured multiple facets of the “Arab Spring” uprisings across the Middle East last year. It was taken at a field hospital inside a mosque in Sanaa on October 15 and depicts a veiled woman cradling a relative of hers after a demonstration.

Jury chair Aidan Sullivan said:

“The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on. We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East.”

Aranda, a Spanish photographer, hopes this picture would help the people of Yemen, a country he thinks is often forgotten.

As for me, I decided to blog about this simply because the picture is that powerful.

Lebanese Memes: Lebanese First World Problems

We’ve all had that friend – the one who wouldn’t enter a restaurant unless she was present. And if somehow he/she were coerced into entering a place where she doesn’t exist, he/she would make your evening unbearable. He/She’s simply “hook”ed.

This meme has been submitted by Agnes.

Anyone else wondering what those Italian restaurants that offer hookah with your pizza will do when the smoking ban is enforced?