{"id":62369,"date":"2021-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/62369\/faq-about-life-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:38:48","slug":"faq-about-life-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/62369\/faq-about-life-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ About Life In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"There are lots of questions Lebanese people are asked so frequently that we&#8217;ve decided to compile a list. Whether or not we have answers, that&#8217;s to be determined.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>1. &#8220;Do you really not have electricity?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Haha.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/62369.png\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>2. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just immigrate?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <i>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/61287\"target=_new\">Lebanon In Top 20 Worst Passports For 2021<\/a><\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/QMHoU66sBXqqLqYvGO\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>3. Why do you say goodbye eight times at the elevator?<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Nobody knows. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>4. Why do you cry to raji3 raji3 yet3ammar if you hate libnen?<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Pls don&#8217;t criticize us. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>5. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you vote corrupt politicians out?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Okay we&#8217;ll just head to the voting booth tonight, thx. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>6. Why do you get so defensive about hummus?<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/tzmGzQMB1jcAAAAC\/shut-up-shut-the-fuck-up.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>7. &#8220;How come all the political parties have identical speeches?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Identical and equally useless**<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>8. &#8220;How come all political parties are allied against the people, but divide them when convenient?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cbswire.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/giphy-8.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>9. &#8220;Can&#8217;t you just get another speaker of parliament?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/data.whicdn.com\/images\/35381567\/original.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>10. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t they just prosecute the corrupt politicians?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icegif.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shrug-icegif-4.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>11. &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t there drinking water?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  THERE ISN&#8217;T?<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.tenor.com\/kCPx_1B0LewAAAAC\/arsenio-hall-coming-to-america.gif\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>12. &#8220;How come you don&#8217;t unite?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Well&#8230;<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier today; riot police members attacking William Noun, brother of Joe Noun who was killed in the Beirut Port blast last august | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lebanon?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lebanon<\/a> <br>\ud83d\udcf8: Nabil Ismail <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H6upH2syQM\">pic.twitter.com\/H6upH2syQM<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Mh\u0651md (@dankar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dankar\/status\/1426993882546548745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>13. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just get a job?&#8221;<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/44a5a66fe02ae60fed217433cc716c98\/tumblr_nnjze0ZzKD1txae4yo1_500.gifv\"width=\"70%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>14. &#8220;Why do you always have to have extra toum?&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/U1aN4HTfJ2SmgB2BBK\/giphy.gif\"width=\"70%\">    <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" data-id=\"431221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2-250x166.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2-250x166.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2-600x399.png 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/62369-2.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of questions Lebanese people are asked so frequently that we&#8217;ve decided to compile a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":431223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-62369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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