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Israeli Reactions to Nasrallah and Safieddine’s Funerals
This is Beirut 2025-02-23 17:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah
Israeli reactions surfaced on Sunday, coinciding with the funeral of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, held in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that “the fighter jets flying over Beirut send a clear message: whoever threatens and attacks Israel will meet ...
Milan Fashion Week Opens Amid Struggles in Luxury Market
This is Beirut 2025-02-26 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Milan Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday, February, 2, setting the stage for six days of glitz and glamour as the fashion world turns its attention to the Autumn/Winter 2025-2026 collections. However, beneath the dazzling catwalks and the latest fashion trends, the event is underscored by a significant challenge facing the luxury sector, which is ...
US Offers Reward in 1994 AC Flight 901 Bombing Linked to Hezbollah
This is Beirut 2024-10-30 10:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The bombing of AC Flight 901 in 1994 has been attributed to Hezbollah by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to a media note issued by the Department of State on Tuesday. The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information that leads to the ...
Hennis-Plasschaert: 'Lebanon’s Deadly Cycle of Violence Is Expanding'
This is Beirut 2024-10-25 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert warned that the deadly cycle of violence in Lebanon is expanding, “leaving more devastation and suffering.” In a statement issued on Friday, she said that Lebanon is facing “a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions,” focusing on the increase in civilian ...
Political Gains Over Military Might
Johnny Kortbawi 2025-03-25 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Amal Ali Hassan Khalil Elections
Lebanon has long been accustomed to generating contentious — and at times existential — debates. At any given time, discussions can emerge over a particular issue, starting as a legislative matter but quickly evolving into a national, constitutional, or even structural controversy. The latest example is the proposal to adopt a single electoral ...
The Limits of Negotiations
2024-05-06 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ongoing negotiations shepherded by the US and Saudi Arabia offer a suitable platform to tackle the equivocations of a deliberately mounted conflict and its self defeating premises. This conflict is intractable by definition and was initially conceived to prevent the possibility of diplomatic intermediation. The offer of a 40-day truce ...
Enter a New Dimension With Fulvio Codsi
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Simply stepping into downtown’s Maya Artspace gallery immediately immerses you in the striking universe of Lebanese painter Fulvio Codsi. His retrospective, Regeneration, is currently on display until April 26. Join us for a private and exciting tour and meet the artist himself. “The first time I entered the gallery and saw all my canvases ...
The Principles of the Woke Doctrine (2/4)
2024-04-21 10:56 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
While the Eastern half of the Christian world collapsed during a controversy about the sex of angels, its Western half is now breaking down due to a controversy about the sex of humans, along with a civilizational suicide. Gender theory is central to the Woke religion. It serves as a foundational framework upon which everything else can be built ...
Quintet Keen on Holding Presidential Election by June at the Latest
2024-04-22 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
According to French sources, House Speaker Nabih Berri was supposed to visit Paris along with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to meet with President Emmanuel Macron. However, Berri failed to show up, prompting Macron to contact him to confirm that the invitation still stands, although no specific date has been set. This coincides with a ...
What Prompted Washington to Release Aid to Ukraine and Israel?
Ali A. Hamadé 2024-04-25 12:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
In a surprising twist of events, the United States House of Representatives recently passed a bill allocating substantial financial and military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This legislation — in a gridlock for over six months — that apportions an astronomical amount of $95 billion, finally received bipartisan support. The bill ...
Olympic Torch Begins Its Voyage to France
This Is Beirut 2024-04-27 20:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Olympic flame began its journey on Saturday to France on board the Belem, leaving the Greek port of Piraeus after spending the night at the French embassy in Athens. "The feelings are so exceptional. It's such an emotion for me," Tony Estanguet, Paris Olympics chief organizer, told reporters before the departure of the ship. He hailed the ...
Séjourné Kicks Off Political Meetings With Parliament Speaker
This Is Beirut 2024-04-28 11:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné kicked off his political meetings on Sunday by talking to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, hours after visiting UNIFIL’s headquarters where he called for ending the alarming escalation of violence in south Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. Accompanied by French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro ...
Southern Lebanon: More Than 30 Rockets Fired Towards Galilee
This Is Beirut 2024-04-29 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 30 rockets were launched on Monday morning from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee panhandle and Upper Galilee. Additionally, the outskirts of the towns of Alma al-Shaab and Naqoura were subjected to intermittent artillery shelling at dawn, coinciding with the firing of flares above the villages of the western and central sectors, ...
Southern Front: Al-Qassam Brigades Claim Attack on Galilee
This Is Beirut 2024-04-29 15:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 30 rockets were launched on Monday morning from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee panhandle and Upper Galilee, and were intercepted by the Israelis. The bombing was claimed by Hamas' military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, operating in southern Lebanon in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1701 and 1559. In a statement, the ...
French-American Synergy and Imminent Regional Settlement
2024-04-30 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The statement issued at the conclusion of the Elysée meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Lebanese Army (LAF) Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun was capped with the assurance that "President Macron will guarantee follow-through on various points." Consequently, he dispatched Foreign ...
Paul Auster, Giant of American Literature, Dies at 77
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-05-01 10:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The famous writer Paul Auster, the undisputed master of the American postmodern novel, left us at the age of 77, leaving behind a monumental literary work that marked his era. Born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, Paul Auster was attracted to writing from a very young age. After studying at Columbia, he traveled to Europe before fully devoting ...
“Tik Toker” Gang Involved in Child Rape and Drug Abuse
Youssef Diab 2024-05-02 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The security investigation conducted by the Cybercrime Bureau under the supervision of the competent judiciary has not, so far, fully grasped all the threads related to the child luring and rape crime committed by the "TikToker" gang, despite having crucial data and information that have so far led to the arrest of six suspects within the Beirut ...
Gold Price: Is a Trend Reversal Pointing in the Horizon?
Liliane Mokbel 2024-05-02 11:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The fundamental principle of asset diversification remains unshakable despite the speculative fever surrounding a short-term surge in gold prices, with experts predicting a peak of $2,800 per ounce by the end of 2024. Lebanese investors have turned to gold since the onset of the multidimensional crisis in October 2019, even though the yellow ...
Macron Hosts Xi for Talks on Trade and Ukraine
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains. Macron pressed a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade. The first day of Xi's state visit to France, his first to Europe since 2019, saw ...
Israel Strikes at the Heart of Iran
This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 07:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran's state media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan Friday, as US media quoted officials saying Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes on its arch-rival. Air defense systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported, after the country's official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city ...
Josephine Abi Ghosn Wins the Award for Best Tourism Documentary in the Arab World
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 21:49 - Reading : less than a minute
Josephine Abi Ghosn, the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism's ambassador for religious tourism, received the Arab Union for Tourism Media Award for the best tourism documentary film in the Arab world. The award ceremony for her winning documentary, Visit the Pathways of Jbeil on Holy Thursday, coincided with the Arabian Travel Market 2024 in Dubai, ...
Syrian Refugees: Geagea Announces Lebanese Sit-in in Brussels, May 27
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 23:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has announced plans for a protest sit-in in Brussels on May 27, simultaneously with the international conference on Syria. During a televised interview on Thursday evening, Geagea criticized “the weakness of Lebanese authorities, particularly successive governments,” in managing the issue of the Syrian ...
CCLC Sends Message to Canadian Foreign Minister
2024-05-17 12:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Coordinating Committee of Lebanese-Canadians (CCLC) held a meeting on May 13, 2024 at St. Charbel Church Hall in the Greater Toronto Area with representatives of the Liberal Party of Canada, headed by the Honorable Robert Oliphant, Member of Parliament of Toronto riding, Don Valley West and Parliamentary Secretary to the Canadian Foreign ...
Builders, Destroyers, and the Collateral Damage Affair
Nicolas Sbeih 2024-05-23 12:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In societies, it is customary to find two categories of people or entities: builders and destroyers. Generally, this distinction tends to be nuanced and subject to debate. But not in our case. Here, everything is clear. There is a category that we take pride in when we see them inaugurate a hotel, a factory, or a business — essentially creating ...
Gold Bars: Lebanon Imported 32,000 kg in 2023
Liliane Mokbel 2024-05-26 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In 2023, Lebanon imported 31,814 kg of gold bars, valued at $1.9 billion, compared to 16,776 kg in 2022, an increase of 89.6% year-on-year. This marked a record high for Lebanon in terms of the weight and value of gold bar imports over a decade, namely, from 2014 to 2023. According to the research and statistics bureau Information ...
Catharsis Through Cricket for Migrant Workers in Beirut
This Is Beirut 2024-05-26 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Migrant workers from various countries find joy and camaraderie through a weekly cricket tournament in Beirut, offering a rare respite from their tough working conditions. In a Beirut car park, migrant workers cheer as their teams face off in a cricket tournament, a moment of respite in crisis-hit Lebanon, where working conditions are often ...
Lebanon in Brussels: Convergence or More Distance?
2024-05-27 13:26 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Brussels’ 8th conference, which starts today, Monday, is devoted to "Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region," under the organization of the European Union, and will unite a Lebanese official position and a new method for addressing this issue. Lebanon’s official speech will be delivered by the head of the Lebanese delegation, ...
Syrian Migrant Camps: Insalubrious Conditions and Resurging Epidemics
Alain E. Andrea 2024-05-27 21:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The precarious sanitary conditions in which Syrian migrants live in Lebanon have contributed over the past decade to the re-emergence and exacerbation of certain epidemics. With no effective solutions in sight, Lebanon is nearing a breaking point. The recent outbreak of several infectious diseases in Syrian migrant camps in Lebanon, including ...
The Paths to the Ultimate Investments
Mario Chartouni 2024-05-28 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Finding out ways to preserve and increase one's wealth is a permanent concern worldwide, but it is an acute need in Lebanon due to the ongoing multidimensional crisis that has been afflicting the country for over four years. This issue is a persistent challenge, especially as cash is the number one ruler, and its financial management has proven to ...
Editorial—Irrationality and Reckless Escalation in the Gaza Conflict
Michel Touma 2024-05-29 11:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli-Arab conflict has endured for more than three-quarters of a century. Throughout these 75 years, certain Arab regimes and Palestinian organizations have tried to advance on the path of “liberating Palestine.” Or so they pretended to do, yet their endeavors were limited to theatrics and eloquent speeches, failing to materialize into ...