Marc Matta

@TheBartlettUCL @UCL ALBA grad I ex-@EBRD I Believer of a 10452km2 identity | Views do not reflect those of my employer

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

A reminder that Lebanon remains!
Through its true people
Through its diaspora !

Shot taken at Kensington London on the 22nd

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@Lobnene_Blog 1)You can absolutely compare Beirut to other Mediterranean cities.
2)Not all of Beirut was historically inhabited and contains ruins, only Beirut intramuros.
3) There is a lot of research on public transport; the BRT proposal is just the only one present on Google.

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@kimo_21221 @lebnenieh12 فاذا هل المسيح استعمل عبارة السيف مجازين؟ لا! بل كان يتكلم عن التسليح بالامان وبكلمة الحق وقولها حتى لو كلفة حياة الشخص!
Read well before spreading hate, misinformation also happy to continue such debate on DM

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@kimo_21221 @lebnenieh12 معك حق طلع بالعهد الجديد. انتا قريت المحتوا ؟ لا! هيدا كان بالعشاء السري اخر عشاء قبل القاء القبض على المسيح! ماذا حصل من بعدها؟ القي القبض على المسيح، فاتوا الرسل وقتعوا دينة جندي روماني. وقال لبطرس المسيح "اعد سيفك" لوقا 22:51 وشفي الجندي و اعاد له اذنه.

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@kimo_21221 @lebnenieh12 اول وحدي من العهد القديم هيدا كتاب اليهود التاني يسوع عم يحكي عن انو الانسان لازم يقول كلمة الحق حتى لو خلقت انقسام - فوت عchatgpt وقرا الكتاب تاني مرة

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@LKsatire mwale3tia tweets! Machallah

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

The destruction of the built heritage of Beirut, is not merely an investment opportunity. Its an organized crime, with goal to change the city's identity and replace it gradually of its original citizens.

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

مبنى «مدوّر ٥» في شارع غورو صمد منذ عهد الانتداب الفرنسي، ونجا من حرب أهلية مدمّرة، ومن انفجار ٤ آب ٢٠٢٠، إحدى أعنف جرائم العصر. واليوم، يُقضَم جزءاً بعد جزء أمام أعين الجميع، من دون رخصة هدم ومن دون موافقة الجهات المختصة، فيما يسود صمتٌ مقلق وتقصيرٌ لا يُغتفر في حماية ما تبقّى من ذاكرة بيروت.
حين تُهدم الأبنية التراثية، لا نخسر الحجر فقط، بل نخسر فصولاً من تاريخنا وهويتنا وذاكرتنا الجماعية. إلى متى سيستمر هذا الاستهتار بتراث المدينة قبل أن يختفي ما تبقّى منه؟
#بيروت #لبنان

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@RicardoRKaram il faut se rassembler et arreter !

[Hicham Bou Nassif @Hbounassif]

A long piece on why Britain became as poor as America's poorest state. But Manchester is an exception in the gloomy British picture. Why? Because it snatched autonomy from London:

"Manchester has succeeded in part because it gained some independence from the shambolic central government in London. In an experiment in devolution begun in 2011, London granted the city more power over taxes and transportation. The bus network was brought under public control, and a local £1 billion “Good Growth Fund” was set up to distribute investments across the city. Manchester, as a result, is now better able to set its own economic course. “You can’t order growth from the top down,” Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, told me. “The U.K., for most of our lives, has been an overly centralized country."

Reading this, the Lebanese malaise came to mind, since Lebanon too is "overly centralized." If Manchester did better after freeing herself from London, perhas, just perhaps, so can Tripoli, Akkar, etc, after freeing themselves from the ruling gangs in Beirut. We can't be sure a new way of doing things will lead us to a better place. But we know for sure the status-quo won't.

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@bobelabed @dargham الوحيك على طريق القداسة يعني متل ما شربل بيعمل عجايب الحويك كمان!
انا محلك بفكر مرتان قبل ماحكي عن هيك ناس لان الآخر قريبة وعلى الاكيد هيك حكي مار يفيدك هونيك

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

While the world is in turmoil, the Pope reflects on the elephant in the room, or rather the ticking bomb, AI. Looking at how this will affect humanity, not only in terms of jobs, but also in terms of morality, character and full nature of the being.

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

Produced by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development and EWTN a video reflection on Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, opened the historic launch event on May 25, 2026 in the Vatican.

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@phoenician_man @riachi_jean @hahussain Hy would you say that!

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@kareem_nasser What is iul?

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@HanadyGerges لكان ليش عم بتسبوا البطرك مزال بتعرفوا مين عما الvideo؟

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@dianakobeissi82 @samygemayel he's referencing a netflix series, كيف بدو ي أولى بالعربي

[Le Meilleur du Football @LMDFoot_]

Gad Elmaleh : "Un jour, j'ai rencontré le Pape François et je l'ai félicité pour la victoire de l'Argentine face à la France lors de la Coupe du Monde 2022. Et à ma grande surprise, on a parlé de foot pendant 20 minutes !

Quelques minutes après, j'ai appelé mon pote Olivier Giroud et je lui ai dit : "Frérot, il m'arrive un truc de fou, je sors de chez le Pape et il vient de me parler 20 minutes que de foot !"

Et là... Giroud me parle 20 minutes de Jésus 😄

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

What do you mean, no seismic activity was detected. The whole country felt an earthquake, or was it something man made?

[EMSC @LastQuake]

#Earthquake (#زلزال) possibly felt 29 sec ago in #Lebanon. Felt it? Tell us via:
📱https://t.co/QMSpuj6Z2H
🌐https://t.co/AXvOM7I4Th
🖥https://t.co/wPtMW5ND1t
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

[TasteAtlas @TasteAtlas]

Labneh Sandwich at Masabki Dairy
📍 Chtaura, Lebanon 🇱🇧

Explore Lebanon:t https://t.co/gnDMro0VK8

Located in the Bekaa Valley, the town of Chtaura is widely considered the dairy capital of Lebanon. At the heart of it is Masabki Dairy, a local institution where Uncle Elias has been a beloved fixture for nearly half a century.

While the ingredients seem incredibly simple, the sandwich represents the ultimate Lebanese comfort food. The use of dense, oil-cured labneh instead of a standard soft spread provides an intensely rich, tangy base that defines the region’s agricultural heritage. It is a legendary, unpretentious morning staple that locals and travelers consistently go out of their way to experience.

Credits: @coachbeasteats

[Marc Matta @MarcAntoineMat1]

@ahmadistaa @Paul_AbiHayla شو بدك فيهن! في كتير شيعة عم يحكوا انو بدن يقتلوا المسيحية ويحتلوا الاسرفية! بس هيدا مش سبب تسب ربك!باخرتك ما بتعرف ايا دين معو حق!
كمال بوستي، انا ما عندي بوست ضد المقاومة او ضد اي لبناني!
بعدن الله الشافي بس حسب القران هو عط هل نعمة فقط ليسوع .