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Beirut Art Days 2025: A Citywide Celebration of Art and Resilience
This is Beirut 2025-07-01 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Agenda Culturel Beirut Art Days Culture
Amid ongoing emotional and security challenges in Lebanon, Beirut Art Days is back, proving that creativity endures even in uncertain times. From July 9 to 12, the city of Beirut will pulse with artistic energy as more than 250 artists animate 130 events across 50 venues. Organized by Agenda Culturel, the second edition of Beirut Art Days is more ...
South Lebanon’s Young Pioneers: Rebuilding Life Against the Odds
Katia Kahil 2025-07-02 13:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon South Lebanon war youth
In South Lebanon, where the scars of past conflicts still run deep, a fresh wave of energy is quietly taking root. It isn’t the product of government initiatives, but rather the determined work of a young generation refusing to succumb to despair. Against all odds, young entrepreneurs are returning to their villages, reopening shops, cafés, ...
'Hug Therapy': How Pope Leo is Trying to Unify Vatican
This is Beirut 2025-07-04 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV Vatican Catholic Church
Pope Leo XIV heads off on holiday on Sunday, having spent his first two months as Catholic leader rebuilding unity and bolstering tradition after his predecessor's unorthodox papacy. "Prudent", "methodical" and "listening" are some of the words used by Vatican insiders who spoke to AFP to describe the approach of the first American pope, who took ...
Lebanon’s Beaches: The Great Slimming Down
Marc Saikali 2025-07-06 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
When we usually talk about beaches in Lebanon, it’s only to bemoan their polluted state. But this summer, something has changed. People aren’t scanning the waves for floating plastic bags anymore. It’s not the heat (still sweltering), the entrance fees (still outrageous), or the music volume (still unbearable). No, the real shift is in the ...
The Enemy
Amine Jules Iskandar 2025-06-22 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
In 1915, in the aftermath of the great genocide of Eastern Christians, Jamal Pasha introduced the concept of the enemy—an invention that proved devastatingly effective in silencing free thought, and with it, existence itself. If, as René Descartes wrote, “I think, therefore I am,” then erasing our existence first required stopping our ...
IAEA Says Centrifuge Workshop at Iran's Isfahan Nuclear Site Hit
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Isfahan Iran Nuclear Program
The UN nuclear agency confirmed on Saturday that a centrifuge manufacturing workshop at Iran's Isfahan nuclear site had been hit in the latest strike amid Israel's bombing campaign. "A centrifuge manufacturing workshop has been hit in Esfahan, the third such facility that has been targeted in Israel's attacks on Iran's ...
Pope Takes Message of Dialogue, Unity to the Curia
This is Beirut 2025-05-24 15:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV took his message of building bridges and promoting dialogue to the Roman Curia on Saturday in his first audience with members of the Catholic Church's governing body. The late Pope Francis had sometimes difficult relations with the Curia and Vatican officials, accusing them early in his papacy of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and a lust ...
Running Low? Unleaded to the Rescue
Christiane Tager 2025-06-04 21:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Crisis Fuel prices Private sector
The Lebanese government seems to be taking its cue from an old maxim: “When in trouble, raise the taxes.” In a decision that hit like a bombshell, authorities announced a sharp hike in fuel prices – despite a global drop in oil costs. The official rationale? To fund social aid. The logic? Ease the burden on the poor by adding to the strain ...
Short-Cycle Prose: Georges Perec, the Washing Machine’s Poet
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-27 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Georges Perec Washing Machine Writer Literature Poet Culture
A drum, a muffled sound, cycles, programs. A round door swings open onto the world’s laundry. A washing machine, yes – but for Georges Perec, it’s never just an appliance. It’s a trigger – his engine for writing. In the workshop of this master of literary constraints, even the most ordinary object can become a source of invention. ...
AI Personal Shoppers Hunt Down Bargain Buys
This is Beirut 2025-05-29 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Internet giants are diving deeper into e-commerce with digital aides that know shoppers' likes, let them virtually try clothes on, hunt for deals and even place orders. The rise of virtual personal shoppers springs from generative artificial intelligence (AI) being put to work in "agents" specializing in specific tasks and given ...
A Craftsman, a Tradition: Can He Keep It Alive?
Yara Germany 2025-05-29 19:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebbedeh workshop Hrajel ancient craft
In his workshop tucked away in the hills of Hrajel, he is the last to craft the lebbedeh by hand. Youssef Karam Akiki is keeping an ancient tradition alive. Full report this Sunday, June 1st, on This is Beirut.
Egypt Denies Court Ruling Threatens Historic Monastery
This is Beirut 2025-05-30 22:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
St. Catherine Egypt Greece Monastery Unesco
Egypt and Greece sought to ease tensions over the historic St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday after a controversial court ruling said it sat on state-owned land. Cairo has denied that the ruling threatens the UNESCO World Heritage landmark, a pilgrimage, and tourism site, after Greek and church authorities warned the ...
Moroccan Women Stitch Their Way to Empowered Futures
This is Beirut 2025-05-31 15:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Embroidery Art Morocco Culture Women
In a small village on the coast of southern Morocco, women gather in a house to create collaborative works of textile art, and also earn a living. Several hunch over large canvases, embroidering their latest piece at the women-only workshop, in the village of 400 people. Some of their works have been shown internationally. "This project has ...
At Saint Joseph Hospital, a Tobacco-Free Day... Full of Breath
Makram Haddad 2025-05-31 20:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Leila Abou Habib Elsa Yazbek No Tobacco Day
In the bright hall of the Saint Joseph University Hospital, it wasn’t the sound of carts or the hurried footsteps of medical staff that one could hear this Friday, but bursts of voices, laughter and at times, softly whispered confidences. To mark World No Tobacco Day, the establishment had traded the silence of care for the lively buzz of a ...
From Jerusalem to Beirut, a Unique Journal: Proche-Orient Chrétien
Fady Noun 2025-06-01 11:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Pope Francis Lebanese University Middle East Palestine
“The Middle East is a powder keg that has exploded! At this moment, the damage cannot be measured, and the future seems more uncertain than ever. The excess of violence and the prevailing chaos leave us perplexed and challenge both political and religious authorities. International interference suggests a plan to reconfigure the region — but ...
As Fuel Prices Climb, the State Taps Your Wallet
Christiane Tager 2025-06-02 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thursday night brought a shocking surprise at the fuel station: gasoline and diesel prices surged, despite a 17% drop in global oil prices since February. Yes, you read that correctly. While prices are falling worldwide, in Lebanon, they’re climbing. This is the Lebanese exception – flammable edition. In short, a price hike running completely ...
Suspect Faces US Hate Charges after Fire Attack on Jewish Protest
This is Beirut 2025-06-03 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam colorado Gaza Hostages
The man suspected of a Molotov cocktail attack on Jewish protesters in Colorado is facing federal hate crime charges, officials said Monday, as President Donald Trump's administration vowed to pursue "terrorists" living in the US on visas. Mohammed Sabry Soliman is alleged to have thrown fire bombs and sprayed burning gasoline at a group of ...
Tensions Over Land Rights Cast Shadow on Saint Catherine’s Monastery, the Oldest in the World
This is Beirut 2025-06-04 10:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
St Catherine monastery Sinai Egypt
Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to the sixth century BC, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is the world's oldest continuously inhabited monastery, attracting hundreds of pilgrims and ...
Tyre's Coast Nature Reserve: Association Warns of Grave Threat, Appeals to Aoun
This is Beirut 2025-06-04 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Joseph Aoun Lebanese Army Tyre
The Lebanese Association for the Preservation of Tyre has issued an urgent appeal to President Joseph Aoun, urging him to take immediate action to halt what it describes as an environmental and cultural catastrophe unfolding in the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve. It also urged the Ministries of Culture and Environment to intervene decisively. At a ...
Lebanese Wine Industry Embraces AI for a Sustainable Future
This is Beirut 2025-06-04 20:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In a pioneering move toward modernizing agriculture, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union held a workshop in Lebanon focused on the integration of artificial intelligence into sustainable viticulture. Organized in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Institute of Vine and Wine ...
‘Un autre monde’: A New Exhibition by Artists of Beirut
This is Beirut 2025-06-05 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Beirut Art Exhibition Culture Artists
From June 19 to 29, 2025, Un autre monde will take over Arthaus Beirut in the heart of Gemmayzeh for the sixth curated edition by Artists of Beirut. Known for spotlighting women artists from Lebanon, the platform returns with a powerful new theme: rebirth through art. The exhibition brings together emerging and established talents to reflect on ...
Four Revolutionary Guards Fighters Killed in Northwest Iran
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 17:31 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Four fighters from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in an Israeli attack on a training center in northwest Iran, the ISNA news agency reported. "Four people have died as martyrs and three others were wounded in an Israeli attack against a training camp of the Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz," ISNA reported. The ...
First-Ever Hermès Birkin Bag Heads to Auction in Paris
This is Beirut 2025-06-05 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fashion Hermes Birkin bag Sotheby's France Culture
The first Birkin bag that was designed by French luxury brand Hermes for actress Jane Birkin in 1984, will be auctioned in Paris on July 10, auction house Sotheby's said Thursday. The large black leather tote, whose design went on to become one of the most famous and expensive bags in the world, will be the centerpiece of the "Fashion Icons" ...
Lebanon’s Hospitality Sector Declares Full Readiness for Summer 2025
This is Beirut 2025-06-06 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon nightlife summer hospitality
The Syndicate of Owners of Restaurants, Cafés, Nightclubs and Pastry Shops officially announced that Lebanon’s hospitality and nightlife sector is fully ready for Summer 2025. “The tourism sector is fully prepared and will offer the highest level of service,” said Syndicate President Tony Ramy during a ceremony held on Thursday at ...
Doping on the Loose, Health Under Threat
Karl Hajj Moussa 2025-06-06 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On May 26, 2025, the president of the Lebanese Order of Pharmacists, Joe Salloum, called on the authorities to “put an end to the unchecked sale of performance-enhancing stimulants in gyms and on social media.” In gyms and across social media, doping stimulants are being openly sold under the guise of dietary supplements. These ...
Brewing Culture: Beirut’s Coffee Shop Scene Is More Than Just Caffeine
Chelsea Al Arif 2025-06-08 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Downtown Beirut Beirut Coffee Shops Concept Store
From flower-filled interiors to fashion-forward spaces, Beirut’s new wave of coffee shops is transforming the city into a hotspot of style, flavor and cultural connection.
Eternal Jane B, Everlasting Birkin: The Story of an Icon at Auction
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-06-08 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jane Birkin Fashion Culture Art Hermès Birkin bag
Created in 1984 by Hermès specifically for Jane Birkin, the very first Birkin bag will go up for auction in Paris on July 10 at Sotheby’s. This one-of-a-kind piece, crafted from black leather and engraved with the initials J.B., includes original features like a fixed shoulder strap, closed metal rings and even a built-in nail file. Born from a ...
Hitchcock’s Heroine Honored: Kim Novak Receives Lifetime Award in Venice
This is Beirut 2025-06-09 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Film Kim Novak Award Venice Festival Culture
Hollywood actress Kim Novak, 92, best known for portraying the double life of Alfred Hitchcock's heroine in Vertigo, has been awarded Venice's lifetime achievement award, the film festival said on Monday. Despite a short-lived career, Novak became "a living legend, earning her rightful place in history, with the respect and esteem of the film ...
Ezra Collective Redefines British Jazz With Joyful Energy
This is Beirut 2025-06-10 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jazz London Music Culture Art Fusion
Named Group of the Year at the 2025 Brit Awards, London-based quintet Ezra Collective has ignited a fresh wave of enthusiasm for jazz. Fusing it with Afrobeat and raw, contagious energy, the band proudly repeats its mantra: this music is for everyone. Set to play Glastonbury Festival at the end of the month, the band made history in under two ...
Three Alawites Killed as Violence Flares Near Syrian-Lebanese Border
This is Beirut 2025-06-11 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three Alawite civilians were killed in western Syria overnight, hours after an attack on government forces killed at least one officer, a war monitor said on Wednesday. Syrian authorities said four civilians were targeted by unknown attackers in the Tal Kalakh area near the Lebanese border, killing two of them. Since the offensive that toppled ...