7 Ways To Spend Quality Time With Your Family In Lebanon
There is only so much you can do in this weather, so we thought we’d share a few ideas on how to spend quality time with your family in Lebanon (without necessarily leaving the house).
1. Listen to music from a different country and a different time
This website lets you tune in to music from any country, during any era. We recommend choosing Lebanon during the 1990s so you and your parents can jam to some Ziad Rahbany.
Best family activity? Collectively judging zo2 el sha3b el lebnene. Watch as your dad argues about the greatest movies of all time made in his day, then proceeds to make you look them up on Net-fleeks for the entire family to watch.
3. Get nostalgic over these 15 foods from our childhood (and prepare yourself for the lecture on how “ayemna kenet ahla b ktirrrrrrr”)
Yes dad, kento teklo 2ab3a ma3 zebde w sekkar but we used to eat these kickass colored sormeye, how about that?
4. Huddle up over a laptop, have a talk with ChatGPT, and watch your parents go nuts
“Yi ya delle shu hal teknologia? Shefto keef byetsamma3o 3layna? Ba3d shway ha ybattel fi wazayef!!! Keef 3eref yektob she3er 3an bayyak eza ma bya3rfo?”
If the weather app is actually doing its job, there should be a sunny Sunday ahead this week. Go out for a traditional Lebanese breakfast, introduce your family to some of Beirut’s most precious gems, and have fun.
Before your mom loses it over wanting to order delivery and how all that “zbele” is going to kill you, Somar Beirut makes yummy homemade meals for you to enjoy. Who’s in the mood for koussa w laban?
7. Cozy up by the soubya (or the trusty 18-year-old daffeye) and try to play a game of “Celebrity Heads”
This Beirut.com approved game can be a lot of fun if you manage to explain it to your parents. Here’s how it goes: very person has a sticky note stuck to their head with the name of a celebrity. They don’t know what name is written on their sticky note, so they have to ask yes or no questions to the other plays and figure out who the celebrity is.
We recommend these names for your parents: Riad Salame, Fayrouz, Oum Kolthoum, Bassem Feghali, Samira Toufic, Leila Abdel Latif, and Haifa Wehbe.
