Photo by Yazan Halwani.

Photo by Yazan Halwani.

In Yazan's words

This weighs 6.9 pounds.

The parcel weighs more than one pound.

Readers of Yazan's blog shared their reactions in the comments.

Source Yazan Homsi Facebook page

My father weighed his response carefully.

Each new born weighs less than half an ounce.

A predator. Maybe 25 pounds, or 10 kilograms.

AM This one's only a couple of tons, so it's fairly easy to get going.

Yazan Halwani in front of the yet unfinished Fairuz mural in Gemmayze.

Indeed, Yazan doesn't just paint famous people.

Yazan, who will also be judging the competition, added

My name is Yazan Halwani and I am a street artist and calligrapher from Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo by Yazan Badran via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Who is Yazan Badran and what does he do? What interests him and what annoys him?

Its egg weighs about 3.9g and it incubates for about 13 days.

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Among hundreds of photographers, Yazan Homsy shares with us scenes from the destruction of Homs.

It weighs 1,250 kilograms and the only exercise I get is opening and closing it.

Yazan argues that the anti SOPA blackouts were quite effective.

Yazan Al Hajari fled Syria after composing music that was critical of the Syrian regime.

On April 29, 2003, the satellite ended its life falling into the Pacific Ocean.

His one mistake is he's a Tibetan mastiff, and a few months later, he weighs, you know, 80 pounds.

On his Facebook page, Yazan Homsi calls upon Syrians to support the revolution and not let the martyrs down.

A huge thank you to Yazan for being great company and a brilliant co presenter, as well as to all of our informed and amazing guests.

In that spirit, Yazan Halwani is taking back the streets to make them more 'Beiruti'.

This mural was vandalized and Yazan decided to repaint it in Tunisia, where Darwish spent a part of his life.

YazanHomsY Yazan Homsy, son of the great Homs, activist in the Syrian revolution, from Khalidya neighborhood.

On Darwish, he said I personally love Darwish for his stance on the conflict in Palestine as well as his poetry.

Now, if you've ever seen a 2,000 pound camel in a rut, it is a scary, scary thing to behold.

So how will the Iranian people weigh their votes? To answer, one needs to understand the composition of the Iranian electorate.

The Chitwan reserve has the world s second largest population of the vulnerable animal, which weighs an average of 4,000 6,000 pounds.

At 900 grams it weighs nearly three times the typical heart and is targeted primarily towards obese men.

In this edition we have company in the voice of co host Yazan Badran, a Global Voices author from Syria based in Japan.

A boar (adult male) weighs around , while a sow (adult female) is about half that size.

You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.

And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

On Fairuz, Yazan said Fairuz is a national symbol of unity she might be the only person the Lebanese agree that they love. She is a positive cultural figure.

Global Voices' own Yazan Badran, in his blog On Olives and Sake, discussed the aftermath of Abu Fares' observations, analyzed the situation and, following its resolution, wrote

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.