Articles & Interviews
Mounir Khatib-Engineer, Professor and Pioneer in his Field
Starting off as a Beirut-based local architecture firm with just four employees, Khatib and Alami has become an inspirational story of success, earning Arab and international acclaim as one of the top leading architectural and engineering consultancy firms. The company which thrived by the...
Maya Margie Younes - Head of Marketing Group at the BLC Bank
How do you summarize your journey at BLC after more than a decade of work?
Years pass by in the blink of an eye. I came to BLC’s Marketing Group twelve years ago. The team was too small back then, that included myself and only one assistant, and our scope of work was limited to project...
Michel Nawfal - Psychological States During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a challenging and changing experience for any woman. It is a sensitive time of growth for both herself as a mother-to-be and her baby. Even though all pregnancies share general similarities, each pregnancy is unique. Special shifts in the body, hormones, expectations, and attitude...
Maya Nahoul - Best Homemade Tan
Do you feel you need a tan? We all need that warming, energizing, mood lifting effect of the sun.. We can barely wait to get out of our clothes and let the sun do its magic on our skin. The sun possesses measurable health benefits, as it enhances the body’s absorption of calcium and stimulates...
Hanna Saadeh - Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a common and mysterious disorder that causes body to ache; affecting twice as many women as men. The mysterious body aches, which can vary in their severity and location, are aggravated by the slightest touch or pressure and are relieved either by rest or heat. Besides body aches,...
Khalil Salem-Saying ‘No’ to Financing War Militias Cost Him His Life
Thousands of kidnap operations and murders took place in Lebanon during the Civil War. These acts of violence claimed the lives of innocent civilians who committed no other crime than that of happening to be in areas with different sectarian identities than their own at a heated moment of wild...
Maya El-Ammar - Communications Coordinator at KAFA
In 2005, a group of female activists from different backgrounds took a pledge to move towards a society free of gender-based violence. By establishing KAFA, these women took their first step in what promised to be a long and arduous journey. Against the backdrop of widespread violence against...
Antoine Boutros - Fractal Mathematics (3)
Traditional mathematics is unable to answer many simple questions such as the future of the speed and motion of a child’s swing. What is, for instance, the average speed at which the swing will move and how many times per hour will it rise at least one meter from the ground? The computer, on the...
Maya Nahoul - Baby Soft Skin, Cellulite Free-Maya Nahhoul
Soon it is summer time, we will start trying on our summer clothes and surprise, all we see is our legs, thighs, buttocks and CELLULITE!
Hanna Saadeh - Acute Diarrhea
Acute infectious diarrhea, with and without vomiting, affects millions or adults and children each year and is responsible for a high number of deaths, especially in children and in the elderly. In the USA alone, 179 million cases of acute diarrhea occur annually. 83% of the deaths caused by...
