{"id":55737,"date":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/55737\/7-stories-your-lebanese-grandpa-swears-are-true"},"modified":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"7-stories-your-lebanese-grandpa-swears-are-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/55737\/7-stories-your-lebanese-grandpa-swears-are-true\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Stories Your Lebanese Grandpa Swears Are True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese grandpas and tall tales go hand in hand. Although they are a source of immense wisdom and knowledge, there are some shared stories that every single Lebanese grandpa seems to share and swear that they really happened, but we highly doubt it. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. The Time He Met Fairouz<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/93f102de0f83305919c575c700400af9\/tenor.gif?itemid=7198519\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  They make it seem like she was holding more meet and greets than a current young popstar. If every Lebanese grandpa has met her, how did she have time to actually perform?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Saving the Village<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wCoJxkY.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  If your grandpa is Lebanese, he will surely claim that he is an unsung hero of his village, either protecting it from French soldiers or a drought that he solved by finding the local <I>3ein<\/i>, he will never let go of his (technically not true) claim to fame. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. Enchanting Your Grandma <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.popsugar-assets.com\/files\/thumbor\/Tw7uff0jaMdnwbuDRIIqGnG1VuA\/fit-in\/1200x630\/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:fill-!white!-\/2016\/01\/31\/192\/n\/1922398\/d21ee2ea9544d6ed_hot_sandy\/i\/When-Hot-Sandy-Rolls-Out-All-Like-Tell-Me-About-Stud.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  <i>\u201cKel banet el day3a ken baddon yene, settek awal ma shefetne ngharamit feye 3atool,\u201d<\/i> says your grandfather, probably. Cue your grandmother\u2019s eyeroll. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. Long Lost Relatives<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/11OUM7lAlLT63m\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  In every Lebanese family, there is always a relative that\u2019s been lost abroad, and that your grandfather wants you to look up on the internet to try and find them. Sadly, Googling your grandfather\u2019s uncle\u2019s name shows no results. Try explaining that to him, though. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. Ye Olde Days of Riches<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/VTxmwaCEwSlZm\/200.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  No matter what socioeconomic level your family belongs to, your grandfather will tell you about <i>\u201cayyem el 3ezz, wa2ta kenna nel3ab bel masare le3eb.\u201d<\/i> Where this fortune comes from or how it was lost changes between one tale and another, but the lost treasure is a pillar of the Lebanese grandfather&#8217;s tallest of tales. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Being In a Newspaper<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.tenor.com\/images\/6920ec7e3739999f58f79bfa9574fa76\/tenor.gif?itemid=4630939\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  No matter how mediocre his life has been, there\u2019s always a newspaper clipping that has mysteriously been lost that had his picture and a small article about some grand achievement he once made, probably during <i>ayyem el 3ezz.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. Being Kidnapped<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/e1bc070ba0a29ba61dbceef40b2ef53c\/tumblr_inline_o19vm72d0o1qbajca_500.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Being kidnapped, or almost kidnapped in some cases, seems to be a recurring theme in all Lebanese grandfathers&#8217; stories. It could be in any setting, be it the civil war or abroad, but they all barely just made it out. Be it true or not, it\u2019s a good thing they did, because without them there would be no you! <\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese grandpas and tall tales go hand in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-55737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[73],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>7 Stories Your Lebanese Grandpa Swears Are True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lebanese grandpas and tall tales go hand in hand.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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