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Netflix Docuseries: Inside Victoria Beckham’s Journey from Spice Girl to Fashion Mogul

This is Beirut 09/10 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Fashion Documentary Victoria Beckham Netflix Britain Culture

Ex-Spice Girl turned designer Victoria Beckham describes herself as someone who "desperately wanted to be liked" in a new three-part documentary about her life. In the Netflix series due to launch on Thursday, the 51-year-old once known as "Posh Spice" recounts her battle to reinvent herself as a fashion designer after the British girl band ...

ExplainerThe Couple and Life’s Challenges: Grief, Illness, Conflict, and Vulnerability

David Sahyoun 08/10 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Couple Psychoanalysis Challengens Culture

Life occasionally interrupts the usual flow of events. Illness, bereavement, separation, conflict, exile, and insecurity can erupt, and thought itself may falter. W. Bion describes these moments when the drive runs wild and suffering defends itself by halting thought. Sometimes one partner becomes the caregiver, the other the patient; this ...

Beirut Souks Celebrates its Relaunch

This is Beirut 08/10 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Under the patronage of the Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, Beirut Souks will host an official celebration marking its relaunch, reaffirming its position as a leading landmark at the heart of the capital. Following the arrival of numerous prestigious international and exclusive brands, Beirut Souks is once again set to stand as one of the city’s ...

Return To Elegance: Highlights from Paris Fashion Week

This is Beirut 08/10 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A historic Paris Fashion Week has wrapped up after 10 days of Spring-Summer 2026 womenswear shows, featuring many new faces and hailed by critics as marking a "return to elegance". AFP looks back on the key moments: Global Makeover After a momentous Milan Fashion Week, marked by the absence of the late Giorgio Armani and new creative directors ...

Saudi Arabia Hosts its First Riyadh Comedy Festival

This is Beirut 07/10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Comedy Riyadh Comedy Festival Saudi Art Culture

Jokes about geriatric sex and endless profanity have been embraced by Saudi fans at the Riyadh Comedy Festival even as foreign comedians face a backlash for taking part. The star-studded event, backed by a Saudi government body, has driven a wedge through the stand-up scene, as comics who staunchly defend free speech in the West are accused of ...

Nobel Literature Buzz Tips Swiss Postmodernist, Australians for Prize

This is Beirut 07/10 15:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nobel Prize Literature Culture Art Academy Prize

Swiss postmodernist novelist Christian Kracht and Australia's Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright are among the favorites for the Nobel literature prize, experts told AFP ahead of the Swedish Academy's much-anticipated announcement on Thursday. The academy made history last year by choosing South Korea's Han Kang, making her the first Asian woman to ...

Matthieu Blazy Launches Chanel’s New Era With Starry Paris Debut

This is Beirut 07/10 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Chanel Paris Fashion Week Culture Fashion Luxury

New Chanel designer Matthieu Blazy unveiled his first sumptuous collection on Monday in front of a crowd of admirers and stars sitting beneath giant glowing planets during Paris Fashion Week. Ahead of the most anticipated show of the season, some had wondered how much the 41-year-old would dare change the classic designs of the French ...

Interviews‘Entre Terre et Mer:’ Irène Ghanem at the Edge of the World

Bélinda Ibrahim 07/10 10:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Irène Ghanem Exhibition Mark Hachem Paintings Culture Lebanon

In the vibrant arena of contemporary Lebanese painting, few artists carry color as both a sharp wound and an act of faith. Born in Beirut in 1970, Irène Ghanem embodies a generation that has seen light emerge from chaos, enduring war, exile and then rebirth, never losing sight of the need to invent a personal visual language. Just hours before ...

ChronicleStage Chemistry and Shared Vision: Yara Zakhour and Adon Khoury’s 'Radio Transistor'

Marie-Christine Tayah 06/10 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Theater Le Monnot Beirut Culture Art Play

Radio Transistor is a play by Yara Zakhour and Adon Khoury, staged at Le Monnot Theater from October 9 until November 2. Blending comedy with the sharp edges of dark humor, the piece explores human relationships and the fine line between laughter and unsettling truth. Working as a creative duo on stage and in life, Yara and Adon bring a rare ...

UK Author Jilly Cooper, Bestselling Queen of Romantic Fiction, Dies Aged 88

This is Beirut 06/10 14:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Literature Jilly Cooper Obituary Britain Culture

Jilly Cooper, who has died aged 88, was the best-selling British writer whose racy novels were famously filled with sex, snobbery and fun. With suggestive titles such as Tackle!, Mount! and Score!, Cooper's books were publishing sensations, selling 11 million copies in the UK alone. Her agent Felicity Blunt said Monday that "she will ...

A New Generation at Chanel: Blazy’s Debut Headlines Paris Fashion Week

This is Beirut 06/10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy is set to make his debut in one of the most coveted jobs in the fashion industry on Monday when he sends out models for Chanel for the first time. The 41-year-old, who was appointed last December, will unveil his Spring/Summer 2026 collection at Paris Fashion Week in the clear highlight of the season, if not ...

Swift Rules North America Box Office with 'Showgirl' Event

This is Beirut 06/10 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Taylor Swift is having a very good weekend: after the blockbuster release of her new album The Life of a Showgirl, she triumphed at the North American box office with her special movie theater event. The Official Release Party of a Showgirl raked in an estimated $33 million in the Friday to Sunday period in the United States and Canada, Exhibitor ...