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So my friend just prank called me. It's not like at home where people call and ask who you have a crush on or pretend to be the police catching you drinking. No, in Beirut you pretend to be the US embassy. The conversation went like this ( Read more... )

So this weekend was pretty awesome. Friday was Martyr's Day so we had no class. I went with my suitemate to get my haircut. It was less traumatizing than I had anticipated. Then I had a fake bagel at a cafe nearby where an American man (reporter from Baghdad) with an ipod asked us where he could buy a pair of Levi's. My suitemate told him that you ( Read more... )

I thought I'd share some of the not-so-comforting aspects of life in Beirut and surrounding areas ( Read more... )

I got back from Jordan on Monday night and basically it was an awesome trip. Naseeb's dad found out that girls were going and put the smack down so it was just 5 of us. It took 8 hours to drive from Beirut to Amman. It usually takes about 6 but it turns out that Katherine needed her expired Lebanese passport and all of our bags got searched at the ( Read more... )

I just found out the other day that "The Da Vinci Code" is a banned book here, which is even more interesting when you consider the fact that the number one movie in Lebanon last year was "The Passion ( Read more... )

Today is the Prophet's birthday so we didn't have classes. The Prophet's birthday is based on the lunar calendar so nobody knew until Monday whether it would be on Wednesday or Thursday... keep in mind that it affected stuff like having class and businesses being open. I wanted to go to the beach, but it was overcast so I just kind of bummed around ( Read more... )

Prejudice is not new to the AUB. However this time it is not an issue of religion, but rather it is an issue of fur color. My main concern is the pipe over the walkway between Bustani and Murex dormitories. I used to think it was funny that cats slept up there, but it has recently come to my attention that only orange cats have the privelege of ( Read more... )

I went downtown to celebrate my friend's birthday last week. All the restaurants were offering 50% off to encourage people to go downtown again and to celebrate Lebanese unity (Wednesday marked 30 years since the events that started the Civil War). It's hard to believe that the downtown did not reopen until 1999 when most of the street violence ( Read more... )