Blogging Beirut

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nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:57:07 +0300

tags: no comment, beirut, lebanon, lebanese, civil war, 2008

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Do You Want Me? Do You Love Me REMIX

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:22:57 +0300

Wa ba3d intizarin tawil,
wa nazaran lil ahwel al jawwiyyé wel eklimiyyé wel mahalliyé,
elaykom "do you want me?"
El Remix al mountazar wou yalli ma laha'na el competition fiyyo, Bassita.
(lalli ma cherako, haydé taba3 el bandalé family wou 3melna bi studio beirut recording session achbah bi tohdir al arwe7)
Anyway fi el ghenniyyé wou fi el lyrics.

Nchallah t7ebboua (bi izn ellahi t3ala!!)
wou ma nensa enno chou ma 3melna ma fina netkhatta el masterpiece yalli hiyyé do you love me.

Choukr ktir kbir la kill yalli sehamo bi 3aml el aswat wel dajjé!!

intaziro al video clip

as promised here's the REMIX of Do You Love Me [Bandaly] by the Studio Beirut Team...!

Song was recorded and mastered on Fruity Loops version 6 and Adobe Audition 1.5
Vocals were recorded on a Laptop Mic

Click Here for the Original Do You Love Me Music Video
+ Recording Session Photos at Studio Beirut

(Lyrics after the Jump)

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Virtual Gemmayze - Beta 1.0

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:31:07 +0300

a GPS-Accurate Interactive Virtual Map of Gemmayze: Beta Version 1.0

key:

RED: pub / bar / nightclub
MAGENTA: lounge / studio
GREEN: restaurant / juice
BLUE: bank
CYAN: parking
YELLOW: shop / market
WHITE: public service / reference

click here to visit: Gemmayze.BloggingBeirut.com

Beta 2.0 will feature:

- inside / outside photos
- reservation numbers
- theme & music
- menu & prices

tags: virtual gemmayze, achrafieh, beirut, lebanon, lebanese, blogging beirut production, flash interactive map, adobe, satellite view, pub, bar, lounge, restaurant, shop, bank, parking

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Salamander Issue 0 - a Lebanese Bande Dessinée

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:07:22 +0300

Samandal, an anthology of 11 serialized as well as one-off comic stories, recently joined the collection of rare Arab adult comic publications when it was launched and distributed on March 28, 2008 at Express Cafe in Hamra, Beirut. Samandal features comics stories in English, Arabic, and French, by international and Lebanese artists.

Salamander, a Lebanese Bande Dessinée - here's Issue 0:

click for PDF

tags: salamander, salamandal, issue 0, lebanese bande dessinee, comic book, beirut, aub, lebanon, pdf

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Man in the Mirror

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:19 +0300

Elias sent me this E-mail:

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it's been a couple of weeks of sleepless nights.

then there's a song that shuffled its way onto my zune - man in the mirror by michael jackson - it just so happened that the blonde next to me was an mj fan, so we sang along to the backdrop of a beautiful sunset on a turbulent sunday evening.

if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself: caught me unaware. it was profoundly just for the moment. a lost soul, many a lost soul living an existential moment of being in between here and there (anywhere but here).

who am i to change this system? a question perhaps asked most by lebanese.

disarm the thugs, try the corrupt, reason with the gods - that is our predicament... and best of all, elect the ones who've bent our knees, repeatedly.

perhaps we are the thugs, the corrupt, the gods? that would explain our failure.

happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

i have yet to meet a happy lebanese

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tags: lebanese, predicament, may 2008, perspectives

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Love in the Time of War

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:52:31 +0300

photo taken in Byblos on Sunday May 11 2008

tags: byblos, marina, port, love, kissing, lebanese, couple, lebanon, photography

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A Smoking Welcome - by Emilie

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:04:43 +0300

The lighter side of an Airport Blockade. Emilie, an expat returning home for shwayyit hawa libnen, writes of her experience getting out of the Beirut International Airport, and through the Opposition blockade.

A Smoking Welcome

Who said Lebanese hospitality is dead? Anyone heeding those senseless warnings claiming Lebanon to be unsafe or at the very least, tourist-unfriendly should have landed in Beirut on May 7th 2008, preferably around 5pm.

Returning home was long overdue; I hadnt breathed Hawa Libnein in twenty years ok two months but it might as well have been two lifetimes. My plane landed forty minutes late, a testament to Lebanese punctuality. Punctuality was born in the States and soon invaded Europe/Asia/Africa and the Middle East except for a small country valiantly resisting to this day: Lebanon. In a patriotic gesture, every Lebanese has his/her watch set to run 40 minutes late.

After our on time arrival then , the captain proceeded to welcome us home announcing clear and sunny skies. I shook off the nauseating turbulence, bumpy landing and bad chicken (airline food - it's a love hate relationship) - all minor inconveniences in view of my return home - and took a deep breath as if to inhale as much of Lebanon as I possibly could. With thoughts of bikinis and poolbars, I scampered off to baggage claim light as a feather- or so I thought: apparently I had been carrying the weight of the trip and American food in bags under my eyes and elsewhere on me respectively as my mother would later not so subtly point out - but thats another story

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LA Times Reports on Secure Plus

nospam@example.com (finkployd) — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:21:44 +0300

Lebanon's Sunni bloc built militia, officials say

The Future movement used a security firm to assemble a private force, officials say. But the fighters were no match for the Shiite group Hezbollah.
By Borzou Daragahi and Raed Rafei, Special to The Times
May 12, 2008

BEIRUT -- For a year, the main Lebanese political faction backed by the United States built a Sunni Muslim militia here under the guise of private security companies, Lebanese security experts and officials said.

The fighters, aligned with Saad Hariri's Future movement, were trained and armed to counter the heavily armed Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah and protect their turf in a potential military confrontation.

But in a single night late last week, the curious experiment in private-sector warfare crumbled.

(continue article after the break)

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