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One day we’ll have an Independence Day

  I usually write satire. But i wont this time. I’ll handle this topic differently for a change. So today we celebrate in Lebanon our 2014 Independence Day. While this occasion has become synonymous locally with either apathy, robotic political milking and/or joking disdain, it actually had its good roots at one point. So what is Independence Day in general […]

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Taboule-yayy Independence Day

 ‘Independence’, nothing spells independence better than issuing this English word accidentally on a bilingual French/Arabic paper bill to commemorate your country’s 70th accidental independence anniversary. But as the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon said live on television when confronted with this awesomeness ‘We at the National Bank know how to spell the word correctly, it’s the printing press […]

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