Touch of spice for final serving of 2012 Olympics

Viva Forever - the Spice Girls proved that even as 30-something-year-old women, they still have enough heat to light up a stadium as they rocked the Olympic closing ceremony last night. Elsewhere, westerners get a skewed idea of the babes of Beirut. One blogger takes a look at Michel Samaha's legal troubles, while another wonders what to do in Cairo when the lights go down.

Spice Girls preforming during the closing ceremony of London 2012 Olympics

Crazy Yet Wise [4]

Spice Girls Reunite-London Olympics 2012 Closing Ceremony

Long Time … I honestly got goosebumps watching them perform together in the closing ceremony of London Olympics 2012. They were like huge idols to us when we were teenagers & I’m still a huge fan of Victoria Beckham.

Plus 961 [5]

Boobs, Botox and the Babes of Beirut

… that was actually the title of a recent article at the Huffington Post by David J Constable. I visited a nightclub one evening to witness the dolls and their dates myself. In Taïga Sky, a rooftop nightclub in Batroun (30 miles from Beirut) everyone is smoking, bouncing on the spot and eyeing each other up, not in a complimentary way but diamond gazes of fierce competitorship. The top trump card here is a tan and a good set of pins, and in that respect it’s no different from the techno cattle clubs in the UK, however in Lebanon the women look like Cleopatra, with a dark natural beauty beyond anything Max Factor can supply and into the billion dollar industry of plastic surgery. Their partners are a mixture of bodybuilders in Lycra t-shirts or fat, pony-tailed Arabic mafiosi. It’s as captivating as it is frightening.

BeirutSpring [6]

In Lebanon, an Accidental Experiment in Rule of Law

Could it be? Could we be actually witnessing a criminal case involving a hitherto influential Lebanese politician waiting for a judge to decide his fate? How did this happen? How did most Lebanese parties end up accepting that a legal process should decide what happens next in such a politically consequential case?

Egyptian Chronicles [7]

Where have you been when the lights went down in Cairo !?

@11:36 AM And welcome to the great Cairo outage!! Today is the climax of electric outage where many areas in Cairo and Giza suffer from complete outage for two hours at least now. I woke up to do to find myself sitting in complete darkness, no light and no ACs. It is the first time to have electric outage in my area already.