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Dying as a Subject: The True Stakes of Palliative Care and Assisted Dying
David Sahyoun 11/06 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Palliative Care Death Assisted Dying France
In France, the debate over palliative care and assisted dying challenges the very foundations of how we relate to life and death, to pain and, more profoundly, to the dignity of the human subject. What does it truly mean to die? Is it simply the end of life, or the loss of one’s voice, one’s place within social bonds and the capacity for ...
‘Let’s Take Off the Mask, Let’s Protect Our Health’ on World No Tobacco Day
Karl Hajj Moussa 31/05 14:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Smoking Lebanon Youth Public health Prevention Hôtel-Dieu de France
Indeed, 54% of adults over 18 are regular smokers. The situation among adolescents is equally concerning, as Lebanon ranks highest in the region for the number of young people – both girls and boys – who have tried cigarettes or hookah. Many begin smoking between the ages of 14 and 18, a crucial period during which they form their identities ...
Israel Launches Massive Strikes on Iran, Targeting Nuclear Sites and Top Officials
This is Beirut 03:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel launched a series of coordinated strikes against Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, missile bases and high-ranking military personnel. The strikes began in the early hours of Friday. According to Iranian and international media reports, explosions were heard across several Iranian cities, including Tehran, Natanz, Isfahan and Mashhad. ...
US Student Visa Crisis: The Impact on Lebanese Students
Élie-Joe Kamel 12/06 12:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
USA LAU AUB Donald Trump Students Visas
International students aspiring to study in the United States face a new setback. Last Tuesday, the Trump administration announced an indefinite suspension of interviews for new student visa applicants and exchange program participants. The directive, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and issued by the US Department of State, introduces ...
From Jerusalem to Beirut, a Unique Journal: Proche-Orient Chrétien
Fady Noun 01/06 11:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Pope Francis Israel Lebanese University Middle East Palestine
“The Middle East is a powder keg that has exploded! At this moment, the damage cannot be measured, and the future seems more uncertain than ever. The excess of violence and the prevailing chaos leave us perplexed and challenge both political and religious authorities. International interference suggests a plan to reconfigure the region — but ...
Lebanon’s Missed Moment: How Emotions and Arrogance Blinded Us to Collapse
Salam El Zaatari 12/06 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Nawaf Salam Joseph Aoun UNIFIL
Sometimes history gives you a window of opportunity so wide, so glaringly obvious, that missing it becomes a form of national self-harm. Lebanon is living one of those moments now, and letting it slip, again. For the first time in decades, Hezbollah is not at the peak of its military or political power. Israel’s 2024 campaign decimated much of ...
‘Malika’ and ‘The Last Dismissal:’ Of Swords, Stars, Sisterhood and Rewritten Fairy Tales
Marie-Christine Tayah 12/06 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Nomination Film Culture Art
Produced by Farah Jouni, Malika is a bold cinematic journey that redefines Saudi storytelling. This fantasy short film, directed by Saudi filmmaker Maram Taibah, is a heartfelt exploration of identity, empowerment and family. As a recipient of the AlUla Creates Film Programme, the film has gained international recognition for its compelling ...
Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting: Lebanon Sick from Its Own Medicines
Makram Haddad 06/06 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Medicines Lebanon Mounjaro Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting
It heals; it soothes; it saves. Or at least, that’s what we think. Because not all medicines sold in Lebanon are what they claim to be. Many products escape control: copies without active ingredients, or made from toxic substances disguised in a reassuring appearance. A Medicine Almost Like Any Other The World Health Organization’s ...
State health official says one survivor and 204 Bodies Found After India Plane Crash
This is Beirut 12/06 13:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
One person survived when a London-bound passenger plane crashed Thursday in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, with 242 on board, a state health official told AFP. "Yes, one survivor is confirmed," said Dhananjay Dwivedi, principal secretary of Gujarat state's health department. They were being treated in hospital, he added without ...
‘A Man and a Woman:’ When Lelouch Turns Failure into Grace
Bélinda Ibrahim 03/06 19:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch Film Story Cannes Deauville
At first, there was nothing but the bitter silence of a man convinced his career was over. In 1965, Claude Lelouch was a young director in free fall. At 27, he had just endured one of the most humiliating flops of his early career: Les Grands Moments – booed at Cannes, ignored in theaters, savaged by critics. “They said I was only good for ...
The Scars of Acting: 10 Actors Shattered by Their Performances
Bélinda Ibrahim 06/06 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Actors Cinema Mental Health Fiction Trauma
Cinema captivates by pushing the boundaries of fiction. Yet behind some of its most iconic works lies a steep human cost—borne by actors who lost themselves in the characters they brought to life. From isolation and depression to physical pain and lasting trauma, these ten performers discovered just how thin the line can be between playing a ...
Wes Anderson’s 'The Phoenician Scheme:' An Aesthetic Failure from a Master of Framing
Bélinda Ibrahim 07/06 18:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson Cannes 2025 Cinema Film Chronicle
Some filmmakers develop a signature style, and Wes Anderson belongs to the rare group whose name has become shorthand for an entire world. His universe is instantly recognizable from a single frame: perfectly balanced compositions, pastel color palettes, characters as melancholic as they are poised, deadpan humor, precisely timed tracking shots ...
Nuclear: Iran Threatens US Military Bases in the Middle East, Trump Less and Less Confident
This is Beirut 11/06 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran Middle East United States Nuclear
Iran threatened Wednesday to target US military bases in the region if conflict breaks out, while President Donald Trump said he was "less confident" about reaching a nuclear deal. Tehran and Washington have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new nuclear deal to replace the 2015 accord that Trump abandoned during his ...
Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Fire Kills 31 Near Aid Site
This is Beirut 01/06 20:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Palestine United Nations Hamas Israel USA
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli gunfire killed at least 31 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution site on Sunday, with both the group in charge of the site and the military denying any such incident took place. Israel has faced growing condemnation over the humanitarian crisis in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United ...
Lebanon Meets the IMF: An Exercise in Masochism
This is Beirut 11/06 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The latest round of kabuki theater between Lebanon’s government and the IMF has produced what all such high-level summits inevitably do: a mixture of forced smiles, indecipherable jargon, and the vague scent of scorched-earth diplomacy. It also revealed something everyone in the room knew but no one had the courage—or funding—to fix: Lebanon ...
Iran Defies US on Enrichment Ahead of Nuclear Talks
This is Beirut 12/06 18:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump Israel Middle East Iran Nuclear
Iran on Thursday vowed to significantly increase its output of enriched uranium in defiance of US demands ahead of a round of nuclear talks overshadowed by fears of an imminent Israeli attack. The announcement came after the UN nuclear watchdog—the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—accused Iran of non-compliance with its obligations, ...
Israel to Expel French Nationals on Gaza Aid Boat by End of Week
This is Beirut 11/06 22:12 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel Gaza Rima Hassan Madleen Jean-Noel Barrot France
Israel is to expel by the end of the week four French nationals held after security forces intercepted their Gaza-bound aid boat, France's foreign minister said Wednesday, as an Israeli NGO said one of the French campaigners was briefly put in solitary confinement. The announcement came as France's prime minister accused activists aboard ...
Major Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Drone Facilities in Beirut’s Southern Suburb; Katz warns no calm without disarmament
This is Beirut 06/06 08:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Israel Joseph Aoun United States Lebanon
On the eve of Eid al-Adha, the Israeli army launched a significant military escalation by conducting multiple airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The bombardments targeted the districts of Hadath, Haret Hreik, and Bourj el-Barajneh, following Israeli orders to evacuate several buildings. Israel claims it targeted infrastructure used by ...
Hypertension Hits Younger Ages: A Disease That No Longer Waits for Adulthood
Maroun Chahine 10/06 20:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
High blood pressure is no longer just an adult problem. Young people are increasingly being diagnosed with hypertension – and the causes vary. According to Dr. Zeina Kadri, a professor of cardiology and Head of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Hôtel-Dieu de France, “In adults, hypertension often develops from around age 35, usually ...
Tensions Over Land Rights Cast Shadow on Saint Catherine’s Monastery, the Oldest in the World
This is Beirut 04/06 10:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
St Catherine monastery Sinai Egypt
Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to the sixth century BC, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is the world's oldest continuously inhabited monastery, attracting hundreds of pilgrims and ...
Israel Orders Evacuation of Northern Gaza Neighborhoods, 36 Killed in Israeli Fire
This is Beirut 07/06 17:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians on Saturday, six of them in a shooting near a US-backed aid distribution center. The Israeli military told AFP that troops had fired "warning shots" at individuals that it said were "advancing in a way that endangered the troops". The shooting ...
Mass Arrests in Los Angeles During Curfew
This is Beirut 11/06 11:13 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Los Angeles Donald Trump California United States Curfew
Los Angeles police began arresting people in the city's downtown late Tuesday, as groups gathered in violation of an overnight curfew after a fifth day of protests against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Looting and vandalism in the second-biggest US city have marred the largely peaceful protests over ramped-up arrests by ...
Netanyahu Dodges Snap Election Threat as Dissolution Bill Fails in Knesset
This is Beirut 12/06 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel Haredim Knesset Opposition
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-right government survived an opposition bid to dissolve parliament on Thursday, as lawmakers rejected a bill that could have paved the way for snap elections. Out of the Knesset's 120 members, 61 voted against the proposal, with 53 in favor. The opposition had introduced the bill hoping to force ...
Inside London's V&A Storehouse: A Treasure Trove Unlocked
This is Beirut 12/06 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
London Museum Exhibition Art Culture
Imagine being able to visit a museum and examine up close thousand-year-old pottery, revel alone in jewelry from centuries past, or peer inside a Versace bag. Now London's V&A has launched a revolutionary new exhibition space, where visitors can choose from some 250,000 objects, order something they want to spend time looking at, and have it ...
Le Drian Warns Lebanon Must Seize Its Moment Before Syria Dominates International Attention
This is Beirut 12/06 23:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon France Jean-Yves Le Drian Joseph Aoun Reforms UNIFIL
In an interview with LBCI, on Thursday, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Special Envoy to Lebanon, lauded the efforts of the Lebanese officials in putting the country back on the path to recovery. However, he cautioned that there is still much to be done and warned that Lebanon risks missing the opportunity as international attention increasingly shifts ...
Iran Says New Round of US Talks Planned for Sunday
This is Beirut 10/06 23:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran Iran Nuclear Program United States
The sixth round of Iran-US nuclear talks is planned for Sunday, Tehran said, as the two sides appear locked in a standoff over uranium enrichment nearly two months into the high-stakes negotiations. It came as European powers and the United States submitted a censure motion to the UN's nuclear watchdog in an effort to ramp up pressure on ...
Screen Addiction: Understanding the Message Behind the Symptom
David Sahyoun 04/06 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Addictions Therapy Culture
The underlying logic of “mindset therapy” is the reinforcement of the self. It urges individuals to push their limits, reinvent themselves, “raise their vibration” – as if the essence of psychic life were a relentless pursuit of performance. But for Freud and Lacan, desire is never aligned or resolved. It remains blocked, unstable, ...
Israel Deports Greta Thunberg after Intercepting Gaza-Bound Aid Boat
This is Beirut 10/06 20:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel Greta Thunberg Sweden Madleen Gaza
Israel deported campaigner Greta Thunberg on a flight to Sweden via France on Tuesday after detaining her along with other activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid boat. Of the 12 activists on board the Madleen, which was carrying food and supplies for Gaza, four, including Thunberg, agreed to be deported, the rights group that legally represents some ...
US Messages to Lebanon: Is the Government Listening?
Philippe Abi-Akl 10/06 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanese Army Donald Trump Lebanon UN Resolution 1701 US
Sources familiar with the matter report that President Donald Trump is undertaking a sweeping reassessment of his administration’s inner circle ahead of the self-imposed June deadline for negotiations with Iran. The shake-up comes amid rising internal friction—particularly between Vice President JD Vance and Trump’s son, Donald Trump ...
Hamas Accused of Killing Gaza Aid Workers Backed by US and Israel
This is Beirut 12/06 08:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gaza Israel Hamas Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
A US - and Israeli-backed charity operating in Gaza accused Palestinian militant group Hamas of attacking aid workers en route to a distribution centre on Wednesday, saying at least five people were killed. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said a bus carrying its staff to a distribution site near Khan Younes in the south was "brutally attacked by ...