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David Szalay Wins Booker Prize For Powerful Novel
This is Beirut 2025-11-11 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Booker Prize David Szalay Literature Culture Art Novel
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday for his novel Flesh, a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. Szalay beat five other shortlisted authors, including Indian novelist Kiran Desai, who won in 2006, and Britain's Andrew Miller, to claim the £50,000 ($65,500) award at a ceremony in ...
What Next After Iraq's General Election?
This is Beirut 2025-11-11 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iraqis head to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new parliament for a four-year term in a vote that will be closely watched in Washington and Tehran. Here is a look at what could come next and what the regional impact could be. What happens after the vote? Iraq's Supreme Court must first ratify the election results. Two weeks later, the ...
Sebastian Gorka’s Visit and Lebanon’s Financial Crossroads
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 19:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka’s visit to Lebanon over the past two days has added an unexpected but timely dimension to the country’s search for economic and political stability. His meetings with local officials and policy advisors reportedly centered on policies to cut off ...
Bulatov, Pillar of Russian Contemporary Art Scene, Dies at 92
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Painter Erik Bulatov Obituary Contemporary Art Russia Culture
Erik Bulatov, a pillar of Russia's contemporary art scene known for works mocking Soviet propaganda, has died in Paris at the age of 92, the Russian Academy of Fine Arts told AFP Monday. Bulatov was best known as one of the creators of the Sots Art movement that made use of Soviet slogans and shot him to fame in the final years of the USSR. "One ...
Syrian President to Visit White House for Landmark Talks
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam White House Donald Trump United Nations Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks, just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, will be the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the ...
Syrian President Arrives in US for Landmark Visit
This is Beirut 2025-11-09 14:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa United States Donald Trump
Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a landmark official visit, his country's state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, is due to meet US President Donald Trump at the ...
Kendrick Lamar Dominates 2026 Grammy Nominations with Nine Nods
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards, music's highest honors, with nine, the Recording Academy announced Friday, fresh off winning five golden gramophones at the last gala. Lady Gaga ranked second among performers with seven nods for her Mayhem album, followed by a trio of artists tied at six, Bad Bunny, pop ...
Hollywood Mourns: Diane Ladd, Southern Screen Legend, Dies at 89
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Actress Diane Ladd Heritage Cinema Culture Art
Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated Wild at Heart actress and mother of Laura Dern, died Monday. She was 89. In a career spanning eight decades, Ladd was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award three times: in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose. The news of Ladd’s ...
Boukra Nour: Healing the Future, Training Adults, Rebuilding Hope
Makram Haddad 2025-11-07 14:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Lea Jabre Boukra Nour NGO
A modest room, chairs in a circle, guided breathing. At the end of the workshop, a middle-school girl scribbles “I feel lighter” on a sticky note. An ordinary scene in a pilot center of Boukra Nour, an NGO recently founded by Lea Jabre, Georges Debbas, and Me Nada Abdelsater. Their challenge: help children and adolescents reweave emotional ...
Former Jihadist Syrian Leader Makes Unprecedented White House Visit
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 14:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam White House Donald Trump United Nations Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa
President Ahmed al-Sharaa will become Syria's first leader to pay an official visit to the White House on Monday, a crowning achievement for the ex-jihadist who, since taking power, has ended his country's isolation. Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, will meet President Donald Trump during the ...
Japan to Screen #MeToo Film 'Black Boxes Diaries' Months after Oscar Nomination
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Documentary Japan MeToo Film Oscars Culture
Japan will for the first time screen a documentary directed by a prominent campaigner in the country’s #MeToo movement, months after it was nominated for an Oscar. Shiori Ito won a landmark 2019 civil case against a Japanese TV reporter accused of raping her — a charge he denies — and turned her ordeal into a film screened worldwide. But ...
Star Designer Rousteing Quits Fashion Group Balmain
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fashion Balmain Olivier Rousteing France Culture
Star designer Olivier Rousteing announced Wednesday he was quitting as artistic director of French fashion house Balmain after 14 years in which he revolutionized the luxury group. Rousteing was the first Black designer to lead a major Paris fashion house and is credited with helping make luxury fashion more accessible, recruiting Kim Kardashian ...
From Baghdad to Russia: A Deadly Bet
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 15:15 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Tik Tok Iraq Russia War Ukraine mercenary
Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad's last TikTok post was in a field carved up with heavy vehicle tracks in what appeared to be Ukraine. Smoke was rising behind him. "Pray for me," read the caption next to a Russian flag. That was in May. Months went by without a word, only rumors. Mohammed had been taken ...
Trump Backs Cuomo in NYC: Experience Over Ideology
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Trump stirred the race by openly urging Jewish voters to reject Mamdani. “Any Jewish person who votes for Zohran Mamdani (…) is a stupid person!!!” he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social, accusing the frontrunner of “hating Jews.” Mamdani, 34, of Indian descent and a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, has raised concerns among parts of ...
Nintendo Hikes Switch 2 Annual Unit Sales Target
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Nintendo said Tuesday it aims to sell 19 million Switch 2 consoles within this financial year, up from its previous target of 15 million for the smash-hit gadget. The Switch 2 became the world's fastest-selling games console after launching in June to a frenzy of excitement from fans of "Super Mario" and other top titles. "The hardware has seen ...
Criticism Will Motivate Yamal in Clasico, Says Barca Assistant
This is Beirut 2025-10-25 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Football Barça Real Madrid Liga
Barcelona star Lamine Yamal will be motivated by criticism ahead of the Clasico, said the club's assistant coach on Saturday. Teenage winger Yamal has been in the spotlight in the Spanish capital after joking that Real Madrid "steal" and "complain" during an appearance on a social media stream. Spanish champions Barca face Real Madrid on Sunday ...
Gilgeous-Alexander Hits Career-High 55 In Thunder Double Overtime Win
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 55 points to lead reigning champion Oklahoma City over Indiana 141-135 in double overtime on Thursday in a historic rematch of last season's NBA Finals. Hours after the league was rocked by a massive illegal gambling probe, reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Gilgeous-Alexander dragged the Thunder to ...
The Power Cartel: Inside, a State Run on Generators
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-11-12 15:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Lebanon is trapped in an opaque, sprawling energy system that keeps the country locked in an outdated model. Massive fuel imports, a relentless reliance on private generators, a fragile or even nonexistent national sovereignty, and a perpetually postponed shift to renewable energy all feed chronic dependency and block meaningful reform. This ...
Ailing Djokovic Beaten in Shanghai Semis by Qualifier Vacherot
This is Beirut 2025-10-11 18:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An ailing Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Shanghai Masters semi-finals on Saturday by world number 204 Valentin Vacherot. The 26-year-old qualifier from Monaco beat Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 to deny him a record-extending fifth title in Shanghai. A hobbling Djokovic, 38, threw up courtside and received medical treatment multiple times. Vacherot ...
Qatar Reveals Ownership of Courbet Masterpiece, Loans It to Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
This is Beirut 2025-10-14 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Painting Museum Gustave Courbet Qatar France Diplomacy Culture
Qatar has revealed itself as the owner of a famous self-portrait by French realist master Gustave Courbet and will loan the painting to Paris's Musee d'Orsay for five years, museum officials said on Monday. "The Desperate Man" depicts Courbet with a wild-eyed stare looking out of the canvas in a work that is one of his best known alongside "The ...
From Spring to Shelf: How Lebanon’s Bottled Water Failed
This is Beirut 2025-10-14 12:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Water Bottle Tannourine Spring Water Contamination Bacteria
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Lebanon informed the public on October 13, 2025, that it would be removing Tannourine bottled water from stores after tests revealed the existence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a harmful bacterium. The announcement sent shock waves throughout the country. Tannourine, one of the nation’s most recognized ...
Trump Arrives in Sharm el-Sheikh After Hero’s Welcome in Jerusalem
This is Beirut 2025-10-13 18:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Donald Trump arrived in Egypt on Monday to co-chair a Gaza summit, following his address in Jerusalem, where he proclaimed an end to a “long nightmare” for Israelis and Palestinians on the day the last 20 living hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The U.S. president, who initiated the plan that established a ...
Guillermo Del Toro Backs Paris Stop-Motion Animation Studio
This is Beirut 2025-10-12 12:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Film Animation Guillermo del Toro Education France Culture
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said Friday he was teaming up with a Paris film school and Netflix to launch a training studio to help old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques survive. Stop motion is the oldest form of animation, involving manipulating real-life models to create films frame-by-frame. It dates back to the late 19th ...
Diane Keaton, Hollywood Legend and Woody Allen’s Muse, Dies at 79
This is Beirut 2025-10-12 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Diane Keaton Actress Culture Cinema Heritage Movies
American actress Diane Keaton, who won an Oscar in 1978 for her role in Annie Hall, has died in California at the age of 79, a family spokesperson told People magazine on Saturday. No further details about the circumstances of her death were immediately released, the magazine said. Diane Keaton made her Hollywood debut in 1970 with Lovers and ...
Pegula Ends Sabalenka’s Perfect Wuhan Record to Set Up Gauff Final
This is Beirut 2025-10-11 19:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jessica Pegula fought back to end Aryna Sabalenka's perfect record in Wuhan with a dramatic 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) victory in the semi-finals on Saturday and will face Coco Gauff for the title. Contesting an eighth consecutive three-setter, Pegula clawed her way back from 2-5 down in the decider to shock the world number one and set up a final ...
Reappointed French PM Scrambles to form Government
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France Sebastien Lecornu Emmanuel Macron government
Pressure mounted Saturday on France's newly reappointed premier, Sebastien Lecornu, to get an austerity budget approved, as more parties threatened to topple a man whose first term lasted a mere 27 days. In a move that drew sharp criticism, President Emmanuel Macron reinstated Lecornu late Friday evening, just four days after his resignation and ...
Doomscrolling: The Anxiety Metronome
David Sahyoun 2025-10-15 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Doomscrolling Anxiety Culture Unconscious
Doomscrolling is a neologism that combines the darkness of “doom,” meaning fate, calamity, or collapse, with the act of “scrolling,” the finger’s movement that steadily moves through a page’s content. It has now earned a place in English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster defines to doomscroll as “spending an excessive amount of time ...
Triathlon: Al Zoobi and Lindzi Nader Triumph in Manara
Makram Haddad 2025-10-11 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Beirut pulsed to the rhythm of transitions. Under Manara’s sunlight, the 2025 Lebanese Championship showcased the very best that triathlon has to offer: clean starts, steady-paced cycling, mentally tough runs, and that science of detail that decides a medal. Clubs showed up in full force, families too, and at the finish line — through both ...
Spain, Inter Miami Star Alba Retiring At End Of Season
This is Beirut 2025-10-10 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Inter Miami's former Spanish international defender Jordi Alba on Tuesday announced his decision to retire from football at the end of the ongoing Major League Soccer season. Alba, who won 93 caps for Spain between 2011 and 2023 and was also a key member of Barcelona's team over the same era, confirmed his decision in a post on Instagram. "The ...
France's Macron to Name PM to End Political Crisis
This is Beirut 2025-10-10 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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France's Emmanuel Macron was on Friday due to pick a head of government tasked with pulling the country out of a political gridlock, in a move that staves off fresh elections for now. French politics have been deadlocked ever since Macron took the gamble last year of snap polls that he hoped would consolidate power -- but ended instead in a hung ...