r/Lebanese

Even though this Subreddit is more of a joke, it shows to what extent these Zionist are willing to go to so they can make up lies about us all. In the west it is seen as a horrible thing to marry a cousin so Israel lies and makes us seem like we all marry our cousins but no-one in Israel does to get more sympathy from uneducated westerners.

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If you know any store that sells them please let me know, preferably a store in Beirut or online

it’s been a hard year, and frankly a hard decade for all of us, we’ve suffered throught the worst while being such a small country, but one thing is clear, it’s that our independance is still intact and lebanon is still lebanon.

i say this on a mundane date, because i don’t await indépendance day to celebrate lebanon, every single day i live here is special on it’s own and is worthy of celebration.

I can’t help but argue that without our lebanese spirit, our love of life and our constant détermination, we simply wouldn’t be, and i am sure most peoples on this earth wouldn’t have survived what us lebanese have, not to forget how much of lebanon’s beauty, such as it’s capital, have been destroyed but rebuilt over and over again, it is a tragedy but there is a certain beauty in our willingness to go on, like a flower amidst blood painted rubble.

not more than 6 million lebanese in this messy world, what are the odds for any of you to have been born here? Yet here you still are, and here i still am, i am proud, despite all the burdens and despite all the pain, i am still proud my craddle was of cedar wood.

Too often we’re caught up in war and politics, and too often we forget how awe inducing lebanon is, weither in its culture and diversity, or its out of common nature for a middle eastern country, or even our coexistance as a people of many origins and religions.

and do not let anyone fool you, the civil war was not a religious war, it was a conflict between parties whose division was based on how easy it is to harvest people with the same idelogies and who were constantly raised in the center of these ideas, it is easier to divide and conquer, and we saddly understood that too late, because when i saw and see what happened then, it does not appear to me as a muslim killing a christian or a christian killing a muslim, but two lebanese being misguided and acting to the benefit of ones who couldn’t care less about them, and neither’s death saddens me more than the other, they’re both my brother/sister, because above all they are citizens of the country that not only protects their religious rights but also promotes it and thrives of it.

be proud of our history, never forget that the roots of our cedars are fed by the blood of our mighty martys, from every region, our ancestors have fought greatly for this land, and cultivated it into what behemoth of a rich (in the sense of culture and akhla2 and diversity) country it is today, so préserve it in their memory, and never give up what is rightfully yours and will remain so untill death itself dies.

it is a great joy to be able to say happy lent and ramadan karim on the same day without having to search extensively to find someone to say it to, all these holidays and célébrations, all these ways of life, they’re just part of lebanon’s atmosphère and what lebanon IS and always will be.

I always imagine lebanon as an island, with no pesky neighbours or outside incfluence, which without you would’ve found lebanon amongst the leading nations, and i say this from no specific political perspective, because you need to realise that no matter your political standpoint, you always have someone from outside to blame, it just goes to show that all our problems are from or are influenced and nurtured by the outside, whereas a lebanon left alone is a lebanon where we finally see ourselves as a one big family, where we don’t let disagreements be they political or not disrupt our connections.

With all this rabbling, i want to finish off by saying that, like many others, i dream of a lebanon truly united on all fronts, we’re of the countries with the best intelects, we have the type of diversity in the culinary field where we could spend ten years eating something different every day, we have the kind of grounds, mountains, beaches and whatnot that allow us to skii and swim in the same day, and maybe pick some flowers on the way. We can be absolutely autonomous and still live happily, were we to finally acquire an uncorrupt government who genuinly has lebanon’s best interests at heart, and a national figure to stand behind, who can represent all our values and unite all the children of this great nation, but i just hope that whatever the élites or the ones on top do, do not let them bring you apart, it’s how they win and you lose, put aside rage, hate, prejudice and all the bad aspects that come along with it, and remember that disparity exists because we can’t get our crap together and fight hand in hand for OUR brighter future, and it’s not gonna be easy that’s for sure but staying idle is just letting our true ennemies have their way and exploit OUR fatherland to their whim.

this land is ours, it’s time we understand that, and it’s all our faults if we can’t manage it properly, and put the right people in charge, also adressing the garbage on the streets and all the clashes and violent acts that happen everyday, and we can’t go without highlighting the fact that, like La Boétie points out, the leadership can only slap you with the hands you give it, and watch you with the eyes you give it, and kick you with the legs you give it. Soyez résolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libre.

I am glad i have a lebanese passport, and that i was born in lebanon, and that i grew in lebanon. And i am glad to have you all as my compatriots, and i am glad i still get to call this mix of roman, phoenician, ottoman, arab and some much more my home, i disregard all your stances concerning politics, and will always be proud to call you lebanese aswell.

hard times are coming, but so are good times, and i hope that as lebanese we’ll be able to enjoy them like we enjoy parties, and we’ll be able to get throught the worst.

i stand with all of you, especially all who lost their homes, families, and even more that i can’t imagine, it’s horrible all the nightmares that can pass over our teeny tiny land, but they don’t call us resilient like the wood of our symbol tree for no reason.

it’s really hard to stop typing, and i will say in tears, although i know it sounds cringe, I love you all.

i added a few pictures that really resonated with me, i found them on pinterest with no source attached, do of them what you will.

also evidently, shoutout to our queen Fairouz in a song that ultimately represents my message: https://youtu.be/uazXZVhBz4o?si=wYY0rP0XtQl89KMN

stay awesome, live long, may allah protect you, 3acha lubnan, ya7ya lubnan, labayka ya lubnan

I grew up speaking Arabic every day but I never really knew the language. I'd use words without understanding where they came from, what they carried, how old they were. The classical dictionaries had all the answers but they felt like they belonged to scholars, not to someone like me. So I made something for myself — an app called Kalima (كلمة).

It gives you one word at a time, with its meaning straight from the classical dictionaries — Lisan al-Arab, Al-Sihah, Maqayis al-Lugha. You can explore a word's root and see all the words that share it, and suddenly you realize words you thought had nothing in common are actually family. You can trace a word back across Semitic languages — Akkadian, Syriac, Ugaritic, Aramaic — and see it written in the original ancient scripts. There's also a writing pad where you write in Arabic and it suggests synonyms and rhymes as you go.

The whole thing works offline, no account needed, no ads. It's free on iOS and Android. I just wanted to feel closer to my language, and I hope it does the same for someone else.

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elmokhtbr.kalima

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kalima-كلمة/id6783453396

Unable to tour the United States because of an American Federation of Musicians ban and moving through one of the most creative periods of their career, The Kinks accepted engagements in places that now seem unexpected. On 17 May 1969, one of those places was Beirut.

Read it here:
https://www.melkart.net/p/when-the-british-invasion-came-to