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Editorial - Iran: A Telltale Sign
Michel Touma 2024-09-02 11:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
This piece of information almost slipped under the radar… Yet, it holds significant symbolic value and could indicate a recent political shift in Iran. On August 27, former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that he was withdrawing his resignation from his position as Vice-President for Strategic Affairs. He had been ...
China Rolls Out the Red Carpet for African Leaders
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 12:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. Beijing has said this week's China-Africa forum will be its largest diplomatic event since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than a dozen ...
China’s Xi Promises $50 Billion for Africa Over Next Three Years
This Is Beirut 2024-09-05 11:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic. More than 50 African leaders and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres are attending this ...
Rai Raises the Alarm Over Targeting Maronite Positions in the State
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 11:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Rai, addressed the “endless” presidential vacuum. In his Sunday sermon in Dimane, he highlighted that “it leaves negative impacts, including the disruption of institutions, the disintegration of administrations, and the violation of laws, culminating in targeting Christian Maronite positions in the state in ...
Council of Ministers: Tuesday’s Session Anticipated Amid Rising Tensions
2024-09-09 22:58 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The upcoming Council of Ministers, set for Tuesday at 9 AM, is highly anticipated, with tensions rising. As early as Sunday, retired military personnel issued a stern warning, threatening to block the government meeting if a revision of their salaries is not given priority on the agenda. They are calling for a permanent solution through ...
Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Research into Wealth Inequality
This is Beirut 2024-10-14 14:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations. By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, the three have demonstrated a relationship between societal ...
Basketball: Sagesse Ready to Shine at Al Wahda 2024 Tournament
This Is Beirut 2024-09-12 17:09 - Reading : less than a minute
Al Wahda 2024 friendly international basketball tournament will be held in Abu Dhabi at the Mubadala Arena from September 19 to 25. The tournament will bring together eight teams, including four national league champions: Al Wahda (Emirates), Sagesse (Lebanon), Kuwait SC (Kuwait), Ittihad Alexandria (Egypt), FUS Rabat (Morocco), Al Bashaer ...
US Sanctions Senior Venezuela Officials over Electoral Fraud
2024-09-12 19:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced fresh sanctions on Thursday against 16 officials aligned with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose claim to reelection has been rejected by Washington as well as several European and Latin American nations. The individuals sanctioned include senior figures in the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Supreme ...
Netanyahu in Favor of Stepping Up Operations in Lebanon
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 21:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a meeting of the security cabinet that it was only a matter of time before the war on the Israeli-Lebanese border expands, according to remarks reported on Saturday by Israel's Channel 13. “We are heading for a vast campaign of one intensity or another,” Netanyahu said in part. During the ...
Blinken in Paris Amid Fears of Middle East Escalation
This Is Beirut 2024-09-19 20:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday urged against "escalatory actions by any party" in the Middle East, following the explosions of devices of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah blamed on Israel. "France and the United States are united in calling for restraint and urging de-escalation when it comes to the Middle East in general and when ...
Lebanon's or Hezbollah's Foreign Minister?
Ahmad Ayash 2024-09-23 16:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
At the United Nations Security Council session, the Lebanese Foreign Minister strayed from the main topic in the conclusions he reached in his speech. Instead of extricating Lebanon from the global power struggles playing out on its soil, he further entangled the country's fate in this international game. Specifically, he did this by tightly ...
It’s Not 2006: It’s 2024 and We Are Alone
Salam Zaatari 2024-09-26 10:49 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
It seems that we now stand completely isolated, with no diplomatic backing from the international community or the Arab League. There are no promises of reconstruction for the South, and serious diplomatic efforts toward the Lebanese government have faltered. Prime Minister Mikati’s actions and statements are perceived by the global ...
Beautiful Image Of The President!
2024-10-04 17:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
This discussion centers on the photograph featuring Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. Their call for the election of a president overlooks Jumblatt's timeless question: A president to lead the Republic—but where to? The decision to separate the presidential election ...
Israel’s Militarized Technology to Take on Hezbollah
2024-10-04 19:14 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Israel's technological advancements during this war have surprised many. Following the incident where pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members simultaneously exploded in various regions of Lebanon due to a remote attack, the assassination of the pro-Iranian faction's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, on September 27, has ...
'The Harm We Do Ourselves' : A Novel Challenges Gay Narratives
This Is Beirut 2024-10-04 20:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Jean Akouri’s new novel explores the complexities of gay life in Beirut, calling for introspection within the homosexual community and challenging prevailing Western LGBTQ+ narratives. In The Harm We Do Ourselves, Jean Akouri presents a thought-provoking exploration of gay life in Beirut, offering a fresh perspective on LGBTQ+ issues often ...
Music Industry Faces Reckoning Amid #MeToo and Legal Battles
This is Beirut 2024-10-06 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The music industry has long evaded a #MeToo reckoning like the ones experienced in Hollywood and the media, but the high-profile charges against hip-hop mogul Sean Combs may finally mark a turning point. Federal prosecutors allege that Combs, known by monikers such as “Diddy,” operated a criminal sex ring, preying on women and coercing them ...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Revolution of 'Smart' Proteins
Alain E. Andrea 2024-10-10 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Americans David Baker and John Jumper, alongside Briton Demis Hassabis, for their exceptional contributions in the field of proteins. According to the Academy's statement, Baker received half of the prize for his method of "computational protein design," which involves using computer ...
Crowned with the Nobel Prize in Literature: Han Kang, Anatomist of the Soul
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-10-11 16:14 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nobel Price Literature South Korea
Born on November 27, 1970, in Gwangju, Han Kang is the daughter of writer Han Seung-won. Her childhood and writing have been forever marked by the bloody suppression of the Gwangju Uprising in her hometown in 1980, when she was just 9 years old. Although her family had moved to Seoul just before the tragedy, her accidental discovery of photos of ...
The War Within the Couple: A Reflection of Lebanon's War?
David Sahyoun 2024-11-28 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon War Psychoanalysis Couple
Testimony "Once, our apartment at Galerie Semaan was a peaceful haven. Now, it feels like a real pressure cooker. The atmosphere in our home has completely changed. My husband yells over the smallest things. I do too, actually. Yesterday, we argued simply because the kids were making too much noise while playing— as if noise could still bother ...
Imam Musa al-Sadr: A Vision for a Lebanese Patria
Bernard Raymond Jabre 2024-12-01 09:00 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Lebanon Moussa el-Sadr Hezbollah
Imam Musa al-Sadr is one of the most prominent figures in the modern history of Lebanon. A Shiite religious and political leader, he was both a defender of his community's rights and a builder of national unity. His deeply humanistic and patriotic approach starkly contrasts with the sectarian and transnational vision of Hezbollah, which rose as ...
Generative AI: A Threat to Our Critical Thinking?
Jean-Jacques Bedu 2025-02-26 19:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
AI Artificial Intelligence Study
Recent studies, including a joint investigation by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University involving several hundred professionals, suggest that growing reliance on artificial intelligence tools is leading to a notable decline in critical analysis. As experts place increasing trust in automated systems, they gradually relinquish their own ...
Lebanon Claims a Strategic Position in Gold Reserves!
Christiane Tager 2025-02-10 20:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Despite its significant economic challenges, Lebanon maintains a prominent position in terms of gold reserves in the Arab world. According to the latest report from the World Gold Council (WGC), the country ranks second among Arab nations with the largest gold reserves, holding an impressive total of around 287 tons by the end of 2024, equivalent ...
Progress on UN Resolution 1701 Implementation
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-01-26 07:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon South Ceasefire Hezbollah
“Nothing is more certain than the impossible.” For years, this idea shaped Lebanon's political and security landscape under Iranian dominance— the impossible Israeli withdrawal, the impossible deployment of the Lebanese Army along the border, and the impossible disarmament of Hezbollah. Today, in the aftermath of the devastating war that ...
Solomonic Decisions
Charles Chartouni 2025-01-27 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Ceasefire
The truce agreement is coming to an end, and nothing has been accomplished on the Lebanese side: delays in disarming, setting demarcation lines, and laying the groundwork for long-term strategic goals. The incendiary rhetoric of Hezbollah and its ideological humbug have returned to the foreground at a time when the newly established authorities ...
All Eyes on the Ministry of Finance
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-01-27 22:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Amal Banks Central Bank of Lebanon Hezbollah International Monetary Fund
The exception is not the rule. This saying does not apply to Lebanon, where for over a decade, well after the signing of the Taif Agreement in 1989, the Amal-Hezbollah duo has persistently claimed—“de facto and de jure,” as they often assert—the Ministry of Finance, one of the most coveted portfolios in the country. The reasons behind ...
Israel Ends All Relations with UNRWA, Citing Security Concerns
This is Beirut 2025-01-28 18:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam UN Security Council Hamas Middle East Palestine
Israel will cease all contact with the UN's Palestinian relief agency UNRWA and any other body acting on its behalf, its UN envoy said Tuesday, after repeatedly accusing the organization of undermining its security. UNRWA's offices and staff in Israel play a major role in the provision of healthcare and education to Palestinians, but ...
To What Extent Can a Leader Make Independent Decisions?
David Sahyoun 2025-01-29 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Psychoanalysis Leaders Liberty Culture
Far from being purely rational actors, leaders—like all human beings—are constantly influenced by unconscious forces that shape their choices, distort their perceptions, and foster illusions of control. The freedom each person believes they possess is, in truth, far more constrained than it appears. Every individual constructs their own ...
Mitigated or Stifled Transitions?
Charles Chartouni 2025-02-03 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Gaza Iran USA
The transitions in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza are still controversial, and their actors are undecided about their outcomes. Observers ask whether the various actors are genuinely interested in the transformative courses and to what extent. The newly set dynamics that have taken place throughout the Near East have not yet been relayed by steadier, ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain from FDD Washington, D.C : Lebanon and Israel Should Start Talking About Peace
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-02-03 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
I spent the last decade away from Lebanon in self-imposed exile. I became an intellectual and political pariah for demanding immediate and unconditional peace between Lebanon and Israel. I was told not to show off my Hebrew and to conceal my friendships with Israelis. I was told that I was going too far and that the Lebanese were not there yet. ...
The Lebanese Armed Forces Deploy in Taybeh
This is Beirut 2025-02-04 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanese Army South Lebanon
The Lebanese armed forces deployed in the entire town of Taybeh up to the road leading to Rab al-Thalathin on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Israeli military reinforced its surveillance measures along the border. Israel started installing new observation posts on mountainous hills within its territory to monitor neighboring Lebanese towns. The Israeli ...