{"id":58922,"date":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=58922"},"modified":"2024-02-12T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:20:45","slug":"lebanese-expats-are-coming-home-for-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/58922\/lebanese-expats-are-coming-home-for-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Expats Are Coming Home For Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<i>Main Picture via @melb2beirut\/ Instagram<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  For the past couple of weeks, Lebanese expats have been experiencing major FOMO with everything going on in the country. <br \/>  <br \/>  But with Independence Day coming up next week, they&#8217;re finally booking their tickets to come back home and flood the country with some thawra love and support.<br \/>  <br \/>  <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4Uyol8pXNb\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 12px 0px 12px !important; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>  <i>Artist: Cynthia Raphael<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  And it gets better because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/meghterbin.mejtemiin\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghterbin Mejtem3in<\/a> (an Instagram page bringing expats together) is providing them all with <b>discounted tickets<\/b>!<br \/>  <br \/>  <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4zvcjmI09N\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 12px 0px 12px !important; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>  If you\u2019re living abroad, gather all your expat friends and book your tickets together because the discount applies for groups of 15 and more. Flight tickets to Lebanon can be pretty sky-high, so this makes it WAY easier on the pocket.<br \/>  <br \/>  <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4zvabMoJLd\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 12px 0px 12px !important; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><br \/>  Once all expats arrive on November 22, they&#8217;ll be meeting at the airport to march to Martyr\u2019s Square together. We don\u2019t know about you but this Independence Day feels extra special. Yalla let\u2019s give it a new meaning! <br \/>  <br \/>  Make sure to email meghterbinrejiin@gmail.com for assistance!<br \/> <br \/> 1","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Main Picture via @melb2beirut\/ Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of weeks, Lebanese expats have been experiencing major FOMO with everything going on in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":623806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-58922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffwelove"],"authorship":[108],"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>Lebanese Expats Are Coming Home For Independence Day<\/title>\n<meta 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