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Pope Leo Says Hopes to Visit Turkey in Months Ahead
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 16:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV confirmed Thursday he hoped to visit Turkey in the coming months for a Christian religious commemoration, in what could be his first overseas trip as pontiff. "I hope to be able to meet you again in a few months to take part in the ecumenical commemoration of the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea," Leo said at a meeting with ...
Syria Troops Quit Druze Heartland After Violence Leaves Over 500 Dead
This is Beirut 2025-07-17 19:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Damascus Sweida
Syrian troops pulled out of the Druze heartland province of Sweida on orders from the Islamist-led government, following days of deadly clashes that killed more than 500 people, according to a war monitor. The southern province has been gripped by deadly sectarian bloodshed since Sunday, with hundreds reportedly killed in clashes pitting Druze ...
New Clashes Rock Syria's Druze Heartland as Tribal Fighters Reinforce Bedouin
This is Beirut 2025-07-19 00:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Armed tribes supported by Syria's Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure. The United Nations called for an end to the "bloodshed" and demanded an "independent" investigation of the ...
Ceasefire Order Fails to Halt Fighting in Syria's Druze Heartland
This is Beirut 2025-07-19 17:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Sweida Druze United States
Syrian Bedouin and their allies fought Druze fighters in the community's Sweida heartland for a seventh day Saturday despite a ceasefire ordered by the government following a US-brokered deal to avert further Israeli military intervention. AFP correspondents reported clashes in the west of the provincial capital as Druze fighters battled ...
Cross Our Heart
Fady Noun 2025-07-20 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations Damascus Hezbollah
Lebanon faces an existential threat, warns Tom Barrack. He suggests the country could be absorbed into one of those large regional blocs the United States dreams of building for energy, commercial or security reasons. The diplomat likely had a slip of the tongue. He should have read the letter addressed in 1989 by Pope John Paul II to all Catholic ...
Charbel’s Path, the Path of a People: The Lebanese Camino Is Launched
Makram Haddad 2025-07-21 16:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Saint Charbel Annaya Christians
A breath of spirituality swept through the heights of Annaya on Sunday, July 20, with the official inauguration of Section 1 of Darb Mar Charbel, the first long-distance pilgrimage trail in Lebanon. Also known as the Camino de San Charbel, in reference to the world’s great spiritual routes, this ambitious project aims to connect key sites tied ...
Invisible but Unbroken: Women Fighting Iran’s Repression
Soumia Benmerzoug 2025-07-23 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Iran women repression Tehran Khamenei
Repression of women in Iran is not new. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, their freedoms have been tightly controlled by an institutionalized patriarchal system that monitors every aspect of their lives, such as education, work, movement and expression. The veil, often internationally seen as the symbol of this oppression, is only the most ...
Commercial Leases: Government Caught in a Tight Spot
Liliane Mokbel 2025-07-24 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Government Residential rents
The Constitutional Council largely upheld the new law on old commercial leases, passed in April 2024, dismissing a legal challenge brought by thirteen members of parliament. Yet, it struck down one key provision: paragraph (d) of Article 10 was ruled unconstitutional for violating the constitutional principles of equality and fairness. The legal ...
South Lebanon’s Risky Homecoming
Katia Kahil 2025-07-25 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah South Lebanon
More than six months after the ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Beirut, tension still grips southern Lebanon. Israeli troops remain stationed in parts of the border region, even though the withdrawal deadline has passed. Yet amid the uncertainty, families are making their way back - cautiously, deliberately - to villages scarred by the ...
Notre-Dame Gets Back St Thomas Statue Adorning Spire Base
This is Beirut 2025-07-25 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Heritage Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Paris Culture
A statue of the apostle Saint Thomas was on Thursday returned to Notre-Dame in Paris, which has now recovered all 16 statues that adorned the base of its spire before a 2019 devastating fire. The statue, three meters tall and weighing 100 kilograms, was unaffected by the blaze, having been removed from the cathedral just days before for routine ...
'Star Wars' Creator, George Lucas, Makes Epic Comic-Con Debut in San Diego
This is Beirut 2025-07-25 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Comic-Con Pop Culture Festival Culture Art Star Wars
Comic-Con kicked off Thursday in California, with expectations running high among devoted fans keen to catch a glimpse of George Lucas at his first-ever appearance at the convention. Warriors, princesses, pirates, wizards, and all manner of costumed characters flooded the streets of San Diego on the first day of an annual event that has become one ...
In Our National Life, Forgiveness Requests a Name
Fady Noun 2025-07-27 09:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In every human being, there is a child who demands a story before falling asleep. The need for fiction is universal. But sometimes, as the title of a long-lost book once said, “Reality Surpasses Fiction.” Some true stories exceed in “unlikeliness” even the wildest inventions. Lebanon’s history is not far from illustrating this idea. ...
Cracker Barrel Logo Change Sparks Cultural Backlash Across U.S.
This is Beirut 2025-08-23 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Culture Heritage Food Art
Cracker Barrel has a special place in the hearts of many Americans, offering homestyle American cuisine in a folksy "Old Country Store" setting complete with rocking chairs and occasional country music performances. But an attempt to rebrand the storied US chain has sparked a firestorm of opposition online and opened a new front in the culture ...
Central Bank Chief Says Syria Will Remove Two Zeros in Currency Revamp
This is Beirut 2025-08-25 21:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Syrian Central Bank Currency
Syria's central bank governor, Abdul Qadir al-Hasriya, said Monday that his country would change its currency by removing two zeros and printing new banknotes to replace those issued under ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad. Since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, the pound has plunged from 50 to about 10,000-11,000 against the greenback, ...
Disney Pulls Out Of Paris Store Amid Shein Backlash
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Culture Art Shein Disney BHV Paris
The company behind bringing Asian e-commerce giant Shein to a landmark Parisian department store suffered another setback Thursday as Disneyland Paris abandoned plans to open a pop-up boutique. Anger has been boiling since fast-fashion giant Shein announced earlier this month that it would open its first permanent physical store in November at BHV ...
Commercial Leases: Pharmacists Call for Amendments to Prevent Chaos
Liliane Mokbel 2025-10-09 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The recently enacted commercial lease law in Lebanon is far from being universally welcomed, particularly among pharmacists, who have voiced strong opposition to its provisions. In late October, the Lebanese Order of Pharmacists submitted a proposal to the Parliamentary Committee on Administration and Justice, seeking amendments to what they view ...
Zverev Downs Racket-Smashing Moutet In Beijing As Gauff Digs Deep
This is Beirut 2025-09-28 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Alexander Zverev sent off racket snapper Corentin Moutet on Sunday for a quarter-final date with Daniil Medvedev at the China Open as Coco Gauff kept her title defence hopes alive. The world number three from Germany kept his calm to beat the Frenchman 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to set up a 21st Tour meeting with his Russian rival. "I'm looking forward to ...
Taliban Impose Communications Blackout Across Afghanistan
This is Beirut 2025-09-30 09:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Afghanistan faced a second day without internet and mobile phone service on Tuesday, after Taliban authorities cut the fiber optic network. Taliban authorities began shutting down high speed internet connections to some provinces earlier in the month to prevent "vice". On Monday night, mobile phone signal and internet service gradually ...
Paris to Welcome Free Public Picasso Park, Opening in 2030
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Picasso Paris Museum Art Culture Sculpture
A park featuring Picasso sculptures is to open to the public in central Paris in 2030, with free entry, the head of the city's Picasso Museum told AFP on Sunday. The garden, about the area of two Olympic-size swimming pools, will be an extension to the museum and will contain a dozen bronze sculptures by Pablo Picasso, the official, Cecile Debray, ...
The Cartel of School Tuitions: How Lebanon’s Middle Class Is Being Crushed
Salam El Zaatari 2025-10-02 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Today in Lebanon, the biggest mafia is not only in politics. It’s in education. Private school owners, especially the so-called “Catholic” and “Islamic” institutions that claim to serve God, have turned into a cartel, worshiping only the dollar. Their business model is not about forming the next generation of Lebanese geniuses, but ...
Two Killed as Violence Flares in Morocco Protests
This is Beirut 2025-10-02 14:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two people were killed when officers opened fire on a group of people attempting to "storm" a police station in Morocco on Wednesday, state media said, as protests -- sometimes violent -- roil the north African nation. Demonstrations have convulsed Morocco for several days, urged on by the GenZ 212 group, a recently formed collective ...
New Israeli Strikes on Ali Taher Hills Target Hezbollah Site
This is Beirut 2025-10-03 10:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Residents of southern Lebanon were shaken in the early hours of Friday by a series of Israeli airstrikes on the wooded hills of Ali Taher, near Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa. The Israeli army claimed responsibility for the attack and announced through its Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, that it had struck a Hezbollah site. In a statement ...
Sarah Mullally Appointed First Woman to Lead Church of England
This is Beirut 2025-10-03 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Kingdom Church Sarah Mullally
Sarah Mullally was on Friday named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England -- which can trace its origins to the Roman empire -- and the global Anglican community. Her nomination by a committee tasked with finding a successor to Justin Welby, who stepped down earlier this year over an abuse ...
Juvenile Detention in Lebanon: Roumieh to Warwar
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-10-03 15:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Internal Security Forces prisons juveniles
Juvenile detainees in Lebanon are generally between 12 and 18 years old. Some are arrested for minor offenses, such as stealing a phone or reasons linked to homelessness, while others face more serious charges related to organized crime or national security. For years, these children shared the daily life of adult inmates at Roumieh, Lebanon’s ...
From Sport to Crime: Lebanon’s Hunting Freeze
Michael al-Andary 2025-10-06 15:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Hunting Litani Elie Mazraani Lebanese Hunting Club
Hunting, long regarded worldwide as the “sport of kings,” has become an illegal pastime in Lebanon following recent government decisions aimed at protecting wildlife. On September 22, 2025, the Ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Interior and Municipalities issued a joint circular banning all wild bird hunting nationwide, citing the ...
Beirut Souks Celebrates its Relaunch
This is Beirut 2025-10-08 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Shops Beirut Downtown Beirut
Under the patronage of the Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, Beirut Souks will host an official celebration marking its relaunch, reaffirming its position as a leading landmark at the heart of the capital. Following the arrival of numerous prestigious international and exclusive brands, Beirut Souks is once again set to stand as one of the city’s ...
International Maritime Academy Inaugurates New Training Workshops
This is Beirut 2025-10-09 11:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A milestone event for maritime vocational training in Lebanon took place with the official inauguration of the International Maritime Academy’s (IMA) new training workshops on October 3. The ceremony, held under the patronage of the French Ambassador to Lebanon, H.E. Hervé Magro, also marked the success of a flagship training program aimed at ...
Football: Athletico and E-Club Seal Their Partnership in Champville
Makram Haddad 2025-10-09 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Football E-Club Champville
Athletico has set up shop in Dik al-Mehdi, in collaboration with E-Club and under the auspices of Collège Mariste Champville. The partnership was made official during a press conference held in the building adjacent to the E-Club grounds on the Champville campus, attended by a large group of people: Édouard Jabre (regional coordinator of Marist ...
Ivory Coast Launches Major Art Space in Historic Coastal Town
This is Beirut 2025-09-27 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Art Exhibition Heritage Ivory Coast Culture
A new contemporary art museum has opened in Ivory Coast's UNESCO-listed beachside town of Grand-Bassam in a building that is a remnant of its colonial past. Twenty-eight artists from nine African countries feature in the inaugural exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photography and design at La Maison de l'art (The House of Art). The former post ...
One Year On: Southern Lebanon Devastated
Katia Kahil 2025-10-11 11:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
One year after the September 2024 war, southern Lebanon bears deep scars. Ravaged by strikes and displacement, the region faces a dual crisis: a collapsing economy and the quiet unraveling of its social fabric. Behind shattered facades and shuttered markets, an entire way of life teeters on the brink of a merciless winter. Agonizing Markets In ...