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Olivia Hussey, the Star of Shakespearean Hollywood
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-12-29 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Film Actress Homage Oscars Culture Cinema
Olivia Hussey, forever remembered as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 masterpiece, passed away at the age of 73 on Friday, December 27, 2024, in her California home, surrounded by her loved ones. Her passing marks the end of an era in cinematic history, as her portrayal of Shakespeare’s heroine resonated deeply with generations of viewers ...
This is Beirut's 'Walk of Fame:' They Left Us in 2024
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-12-31 10:30 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
Culture Artists Homage Celebrities Restrospective2024
This is Beirut presents its Walk of Fame dedicated to iconic figures from the artistic and cultural world who passed away in 2024. From Hussein Madi to Olivia Hussey, including Donald Sutherland and Alain Delon, this selection, far from exhaustive, pays tribute to individuals whose talent and legacy marked this painful year. Hussein Madi (88) ...
Vienna, Venice and Berlin: Musical Nationalism in New Year's Concerts
Alain E. Andrea 2024-12-31 17:15 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The arrival of the new year is heralded by global festivities, with New Year's concerts at the forefront. These events, featuring renowned orchestras and conductors, have become key annual celebrations for music enthusiasts, offering a melodic exploration of Europe's rich musical heritage while ushering in a sense of joy and hope for the coming ...
Israeli Military Confirms Destruction of Iranian-funded Missile Factory in Syria
This is Beirut 2025-01-02 20:24 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli military confirmed on Thursday that dozens of its troops were flown into Syria in September to destroy an underground missile factory funded by Iran. The military, which rarely comments on its activities inside Syria, said in a statement that the September 8 raid involved more than 100 Israeli commando soldiers who dismantled the ...
A second Iranian plane searched on Friday
This is Beirut 2025-01-03 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Airport Iran Bassam Maoulaoui
A second plane originating from Iran was thoroughly searched at Beirut International Airport on Friday, without causing any problems similar to those which erupted the previous day on arrival of the Iranian Mahan Air plane. Speaking in a television interview, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi pointed out: “We only want to protect ...
Tom Cruise’s Death-Defying ‘Mission’ Lights Up Cannes
This is Beirut 2025-05-15 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tom Cruise Cannes Cannes Film Festival France Culture Cinema
Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made its big grandstand premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, with the first reviews saying it more than lives up to its steamroller hype. "What a rush!" The Guardian declared in its five-star love letter to Cruise's $400-million behemoth, calling him a modern "superhuman action ...
Epic Games says Fortnite Back on Apple's US App Store
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Epic Games on Tuesday said its hit game "Fortnite" has returned to Apple's digital App Store in the United States after being sidelined for years due to a legal battle with the iPhone maker. "Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the US on iPhones and iPads... and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU!" the game maker proclaimed in a post ...
Stories and Highlights from the Lebanese Film Festival of France
Fabienne Touma 2024-10-09 10:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The 4th edition of the Lebanese Film Festival of France (FFLF) will open on October 13 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, showcasing the diversity and relevance of themes explored in Lebanese cinema, particularly regarding the portrayal of war and its aftermath. Festival Highlights Through a mix of documentaries and fictional works, the ...
Global Markets 2025: From Soaring Peaks to Sudden Crashes
Christiane Tager 2025-10-17 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
International Monetary Fund Markets economy stocks
Since January, major stock indices such as the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Euro Stoxx have shattered records. Fueled by surging optimism around artificial intelligence, global finance seems to be reliving its golden era. Yet beneath this spectacular rise, the ground is quaking. Every peak is followed by a dark day. In just hours, billions of dollars could ...
Trump and Artificial Intelligence: Reclaiming America’s Lead
Paul Guillot 2025-10-07 11:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States White House
In January 2025, barely back in the White House, Donald Trump set the tone: artificial intelligence would not be merely a technological challenge but a strategic instrument to secure American supremacy. The Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, marked a turning point. Regulatory constraints ...
Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Literature Prize
This is Beirut 2025-10-09 14:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nobel Prize Literature Laszlo Krasznahorkai Hungary Sweden Culture
The Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, considered by many as Hungary's most important living author whose works explore themes of postmodern dystopia and melancholy. The Swedish Academy honored him "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of ...
Six Killed as Major Quake Strikes Southern Philippines
This is Beirut 2025-10-10 15:46 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Philippines Earthquake Magnitude
Two powerful quakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least six people and triggering tsunami warnings. The biggest of the quakes, with a magnitude of 7.4, hit about 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Manay town in the Mindanao region just before 10 am (0100 GMT), according to the United States Geological ...
Nasser Taghvai, Iranian Cinema Pioneer and Longtime Regime Critic, Passes Away
This is Beirut 2025-10-14 12:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Filmmaker Nasser Taghvai Obituary Anti-censorship Iran Culture
Prominent Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai, widely known for his long struggle against censorship, Taghvai has died at the age of 84, his wife said Tuesday. "Nasser Taghvai, an artist who chose the difficulty of living freely, has earned his liberation," his wife, actor Marzieh Vafamehr, wrote on Instagram. Taghvai was born on July 13, 1941 in ...
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 ...
The Sharm al-Sheikh Peace Summit: How Trump Became the ‘King of Presidents’
Salam El Zaatari 2025-10-16 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump United States Egypt Hamas Gaza
When Air Force One touched down in Sharm al-Sheikh on October 13, 2025, the Red Sea resort known for coral reefs and diplomacy turned into the epicenter of world politics. Cameras caught an image that would dominate headlines: Donald Trump standing between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, ...
Leonardo, Callas, Beethoven… Could Europe’s Icons Appear on Euro Banknotes?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-17 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Europe Euros Banknotes Culture
Nearly a quarter of a century after their introduction, euro banknotes are set to be completely redesigned, both aesthetically and in terms of security. If the ECB stays on schedule, the new banknotes are expected to be unveiled from 2026, following an unprecedented public consultation and design process. Since 2002, euro banknotes have depicted ...
Philippine Quake Toll Rises to 72 as Search Winds Down
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 09:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Philippines Bantayan Cebu Earthquake
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday, officials said, as the search for the missing wound down and rescuers turned their focus to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless. The bodies of the three victims were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel overnight Wednesday in the city ...
Art and Faith Unite in Tehran’s Virgin Mary Station
This is Beirut 2025-10-19 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Shiite Islam may be the official religion in Iran, but entering Tehran's brand-new Maryam Moghaddas metro station, you could be forgiven for feeling as if you're stepping inside a Christian church. Maryam Moghaddas in Persian translates as "Holy Mary." And the station's vaulted and arched concourse, with a dome decorated with Persian motifs, ...
SGA Leads Thunder Past Rockets In Season-Opening Thriller
This is Beirut 2025-10-22 13:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
NBA Rockets Thunder Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder launched the defense of their NBA crown with a thrilling season-opening 125-124 triple-overtime victory over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday. Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning NBA and NBA Finals Most Valuable Player, drew a crucial foul with 2.3 seconds remaining before nailing ...
Honoring a Historic Visit: Lebanon Commemorates Pope Leo XIV with a Stamp
Christiane Tager 2025-10-22 21:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Pope Francis Pope Leo XIV
Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon, scheduled for November 30 to December 2, 2025, the Ministry of Telecommunications has confirmed to This is Beirut that the country will issue a special stamp commemorating the pontifical visit. According to Ministry sources, this official release has been entrusted to LibanPost, which will oversee its ...
Labubu and Pazuzu: The Sinister Tale of a Viral Doll
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-26 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Labubu Pazuzu Doll Cuture Rumor
In recent months, social media has been buzzing with a peculiar rumor: the famous Labubu dolls, icons of Asian pop culture, may actually be modeled on Pazuzu, a demon from ancient Mesopotamia. Straddling the line between sensationalism and imagination, the rumor has sparked fascination and anxiety among fans, collectors and the wider public. But ...
Rick Owens Turns Palais Galliera into a Temple of Dark Love
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-10-27 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Rick Owens Culture Art Culture Palais Galliera
Known as both an avant-gardist and a mystic, Rick Owens reinvents fashion as a sacred ritual. With his exhibition Temple of Love, the Palais Galliera takes on the aura of a pagan cathedral, where darkness and light merge in an act of aesthetic and chaotic faith. Since last June, the Palais Galliera has been hosting Rick Owens: Temple of Love. ...
Lebanon’s Prisons Buckle Under Inmate Surge
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-27 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Stepping into Roumieh Prison in Matn, one might mistake it for a transit camp rather than a facility meant to enforce sentences. Built to hold 1,000 to 1,200 inmates, it now houses nearly 4,000 - more than triple its intended capacity. The national situation is equally grim. Human Rights Watch reports that Lebanon’s prison system officially has ...
US Treasury Department Mulls Minting $1 Coin with Trump's Image
This is Beirut 2025-10-03 22:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US Treasury Donald Trump United States Independence Money
The US Treasury Department is considering making a one-dollar coin that features President Donald Trump in order to commemorate the country's 250th independence anniversary, officials said Friday. In a social media post retweeted by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Treasurer Brandon Beach shared early drafts of the coin. Beach posted "first ...
Paris Becomes Romantic Stage in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Series
This is Beirut 2025-10-01 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Series Paris France Culture Art
Emily is no longer the only doe-eyed American in Paris: Isabel "Belly" Conklin, lead character in global TV phenomenon The Summer I Turned Pretty, has also moved to the French capital, burnishing its reputation for romance and escapism. The third series of the show ranked first in 120 countries on Amazon Prime when it kicked off in July — ...
Funk Legend George Clinton Brings Psychedelic Energy to Paris Gallery
This is Beirut 2025-11-01 14:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Art Music Paris France Culture Africa
At 84, George Clinton is a funk legend, ubiquitous hip-hop sample source, father of psychedelic Afrofuturism — and now, a painter with a show opening in Paris. Through it all, the self-taught American artist, the force behind the celebrated groups Parliament and Funkadelic, has hewed to his signature vision: “Gotta have that funk.” A life ...
Picasso’s Hidden Portrait of Dora Maar to Go Under the Hammer in Paris
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Painting Auction Picasso Drouot France Culture
A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of one his lovers was unveiled at a Paris auction house on Thursday after being put up for sale by its owners. Entitled Bust of a woman with a flowery hat, it depicts Dora Maar, a French photographer, painter and poet who was Picasso's best-known muse. Painted with oil, the colorful work measuring ...
Russell Crowe Stuns at Toronto International Film Festival with Chilling Nazi Role
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Toronto International Film Festival Cinema Awards Canada Culture Art
Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. Crowe's depiction of the second-ranking Nazi, Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, as he plays a cat-and-mouse game with a psychiatrist (Rami ...
5.4-Magnitude Offshore Earthquake Rattles Greece
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck off the Greek island of Euboea early Tuesday and was strongly felt in Athens, authorities said. The quake hit at 00:30 local time (2130 GMT) offshore 45 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of the Greek capital, said the Institute of Geodynamics at the National Observatory of Athens. The epicenter was four kilometers ...
The Model Behind Courbet’s 'L’Origine du monde'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gustave Courbet Model Culture Painting Constance Quéniaux
It is hard to imagine today the scandal Courbet’s painting sparked in 1866. Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Khalil Bey, the canvas depicts, without embellishment, the genitals of a reclining woman — with no face and no background. Rendered with almost photographic realism, it disturbed, shocked, and unsettled. For more than a century, the ...