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Media

Lebanese radio airs programmes in French and English. There are more than 10 TV stations broadcasting in Arabic, French and English at different times of the day.
There is no local English-language daily newspaper. However, newsagents stock an assortment of English and American dailies as well as weekly magazines such as Time, Newsweek and The Economist. A local English-language magazine, Monday Morning, is produced weekly and reviews local news and social events. The local French-language paper is L'Orient le Jour


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Food

Baba Ghanoush: char-grilled eggplant, tahina, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic puree -- served as a dip.

Baklava: a dessert of layered pastry filled with nuts and steeped in honey-lemon syrup, usually cut in a triangular or diamond shape.

Falafel: small deep-fried patties made of highly-spiced ground chick-peas.

Fattoush: salad of toasted croutons, cucumbers, tomatoes and mint.

Foul: slow cooked mask of brown beans and red lentils dressed with lemon olive oil and cumin.

Halva: sesame paste sweet, usually made in a slab and studded with fruit and nuts.

Hommus: puree of chickpeas, tahina, lemon, and garlic served as a dip.

Jebne: white cheese.

Kamareddine: apricot nectar.

Kunafi: shoelace pastry dessert stuffed with sweet white cheese, nuts and syrup.

Kibbeh: oval-shaped nuggets of ground lamb and burghul.

Kibbeh naye: raw kibbeh eaten like steak tartar.

Koshary: cooked dish of pasta, rice and lentils to which onions, chillies and tomatoes paste are added.

Kufta: fingers, balls or a flat cake of minced meat and spices that can be baked or charcoal-grilled on skewers.

Laban: tangy-tasting sour milk drink widely used in cooking.

Labenah: thick creamy cheese often spiced and used as a dip.

Lahma bi Ajeen: Arabic pizza.

Loubia: green beans cooked in tomato sauce.

Ma'amul: date cookies shaped in a wooden mould called a tabi.

Muhalabiyyah: silky textured semolina pudding served cold.

Musakhan: chicken casserole with sumac, a ground powder from the cashew family used as seasoning.

Sayyadiya: delicately spiced fish served on a bed of rice.

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Tabbouleh : salad of burghul, tomato,
mint and parsley.





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