Dating in Beirut: Not so different for Beirutis

Maybe the advice for Beirut not all that different from advice we'd hear universally, but it can be easy to forget in giddy Beirut where the rules seem different.

"In case you missed them here are some of my dating tips that the lovely Claire shared on Light FM’s (90.5) Friday afternoon drive. If you haven’t tuned in, you must, for some of hottest dating and fashion tips in Beirut, while listening to some stress-free fabulous music."

Shopping in Egypt: It's good to know what's out there, but you might want to keep it 'out there' i.e. out of your living room!

"im going through this website full of secondhand furniture available in egypt. im searching for bargains to buy, hoping to come across something vintage and i keep running into more ugly shit than winners."

"There was a large crowd of Sufi Festival attendees and local residents.at the Batha Museum in Fez tonight for the first of the Sufi brotherhood evenings held during the Fes Festival of Sufi Culture. Helen Ranger was there for The View from Fez."

This woman's speech started circulating no sooner than the event was up, with people claiming discovery and proudly attaching 'you heard it here first' tags:

"What an inspiring speech by an inspiring woman, Palestinian architect and author Suad Amiry concluded the TEDx Ramallah event that was held in Bethlehem earlier this week with an amazing speech about her life, specially the time when she had to live under two occupations: the Israeli army and her mother-in-law Amiry is the author of “Sharon and my Mother in-Law: Ramallah Diaries”, which was translated into 11 languages and awarded the prestigious Viareggio Prize in Italy and a bestseller in France."

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