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TV Heroines: 10 Female Characters We Love to Hate
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-25 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
TV Heroines Female Characters Film Culture Actresses
In the world of TV series, some female characters inspire admiration. Others trigger relentless annoyance; the kind that makes you roll your eyes every time they appear, sigh with frustration, or wish for a plotline without them. And yet, they linger, impose themselves, leave their mark. Because hating a character also means acknowledging their ...
Lebanon Mourns Ziad Rahbani
This is Beirut 2025-07-26 14:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ziad Rahbani Lebanese Artist Fairuz Arabic theater cultural icon political satire
Ziad Rahbani, one of Lebanon’s most influential artists, passed away on Saturday at the age of 69 after battling a prolonged illness. News of his passing came as a shock to Lebanon’s cultural and political scene, which paid tribute to his legacy. President Joseph Aoun hailed Rahbani as “not just an artist, but a defining cultural and ...
Syria Sets Date for Selection of New Transitional Parliament
This is Beirut 2025-07-27 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syrian authorities announced on Sunday that a new transitional parliament would be selected in September, with local electoral bodies picking two-thirds of the lawmakers and the country's interim president naming the rest. After toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December after nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria's new authorities -- led ...
The Politics of Frozen Conflicts and Their Antidotes
Charles Chartouni 2025-07-28 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Iran Yemen Hezbollah United States Syria
Paradoxically enough, the strategic contexts throughout the Middle and Near East extending between Iran and Gaza are in a state of volatility, and none of the security issues at stake have been addressed in a conclusive manner — or were ever meant to be. After the consecutive defeats that have unraveled the strategic and political realms of ...
Five Dead Including Gunman in New York Office Shooting Spree
This is Beirut 2025-07-29 08:56 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States New York Shooting
Four people including a police officer were killed Monday after a gunman walked into a skyscraper in central Manhattan and opened fire in broad daylight, officials said. A fifth victim was also in critical condition after being shot, while the gunman apparently took his own life, Mayor Eric Adams told a late-night briefing at a hospital near the ...
The Silent War Over Lebanon’s Underwater Heritage
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Geopolitical instability in the region does not end at the water’s edge – it extends below the surface, into Lebanon’s territorial waters. Maritime border disputes, particularly with Israel around Block 9 in the south, involve more than contested gas fields; they also threaten the preservation of invaluable cultural heritage. Any discovery ...
A Last Goodbye to the Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne Honoured in Birmingham
This is Beirut 2025-07-30 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music Ozzy Osbourne Final Farewell Fans Britain Culture
Heavy metal hell-raiser Ozzy Osbourne will be laid to rest on Wednesday, with thousands set to bid the legendary musician a final farewell when his funeral cortege drives through his UK hometown. Officials in the central city of Birmingham said Tuesday they have worked with his family to draw up the details of Osbourne's last goodbye, before a ...
Gucci owner Kering posts 46% profit slump before new CEO arrives
This is Beirut 2025-07-30 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gucci Fashion Luxury Art Culture
French luxury group Kering reported Tuesday a 46 percent plunge in net profit during the first half, with sales slumping again at its flagship Gucci brand, as the group awaits a new CEO to try to regain its footing. Group net profit fell to 474 million euros ($547 million) in the first half from 878 million in the same period last year, on sales ...
Ziad Is Gone, the Drama Isn’t
Salam El Zaatari 2025-07-31 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Ziad Rahbani Music Fairouz Culture
Ziad Rahbani, Lebanon’s most brilliant satirist and musical artist, was finally laid to rest. But instead of a dignified farewell fitting of the man who gave voice to a nation’s contradictions, his funeral devolved into a spectacle, an unintentional parody of the plays he once wrote. Some mocked Dima’s presence, others sneered at Majida’s ...
Thousands Honor Ozzy Osbourne at UK Hometown Funeral Procession
This is Beirut 2025-07-31 12:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Music Tribute Ozzy Osbourne Fans Britain Culture
Thousands lined the streets of the UK city Birmingham on Wednesday to pay an emotional farewell to hometown hero Ozzy Osbourne as the heavy metal hellraiser was laid to rest. Black Sabbath frontman Osbourne, who earned the nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness" and once bit a bat while on stage, died on July 22 at the age of 76. He had been ...
Bob Wilson, Master of Light and Stage, Passed Away at 83
This is Beirut 2025-08-01 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Theater Heritage Bob Wilson Director Culture Art
It was a silent seven-hour production that first made France fall in love with Bob Wilson. Deafman Glance, born from a moment of trauma—Wilson witnessing a young deaf boy being beaten by a police officer—would become a landmark of modern theater. Wilson later adopted the boy. When the show premiered at the Nancy Festival in 1971, poet Louis ...
Ukrainian Drones Spark Fire at Sochi Oil Depot
This is Beirut 2025-08-03 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Sochi Drone Attack
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the Ukrainian border, authorities said Sunday. Ukraine has regularly hit Russian oil and gas infrastructure in response to attacks on its own territory since Russia began ...
Asia Cup: Lebanon Cracks, New Zealand into the Semifinals
Makram Haddad 2025-08-15 02:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
At King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Lebanon started their quarterfinal on the right foot. A Blistering Start Right from the tip-off, the machine roared to life: Karim Zeinoun and Hayk Gyokchyan lit the fuse from three-point range, Youssef Khayat and Dedric Lawson outran the Kiwi defense on the fast break, and defensive pressure cut off New ...
Painting the Heat Away: Vienna Museum Uses Art to Cool Urban Spaces
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Art Climate Vienna Museum Austria Culture
Equipped with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the center of Vienna. Thanks to his collective's art work covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colors, the ground temperature has dropped from 31C to 20C. Initiated by the museum showing the private ...
Trump Threatens To Sue WSJ Over Story on Alleged 2003 Letter to Epstein
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 05:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein Politics
US President Donald Trump threatened to sue The Wall Street Journal Thursday over a story about an alleged off-color letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, amid lingering political fallout over his administration's handling of the late financier's sex trafficking case. The Journal story says the letter featuring a sketch of a naked woman and ...
Will Lebanon Disarm Hezbollah, or Not?
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah United States
The Lebanese cabinet heard, on Friday, a presentation from Army Chief Rodolphe Haykal on a confidential plan to monopolize arms, as tasked by the government on August 5. The cabinet then issued a statement, and Information Minister Paul Morcos held a press conference. The vague responses left observers divided, with each side interpreting the ...
Paramount to Launch Live-Action Call of Duty Movie Project
This is Beirut 2025-09-03 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Paramount Movies Cinema Culture Art
Paramount, the Hollywood studio recently acquired by the software billionaire Ellison family, will make a movie based on the wildly popular Call of Duty video games, it announced Tuesday. Scion David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, assumed control of Paramount last month and is overseeing a major effort to revitalize the storied but ...
Expired Medications: Lebanon Sitting on a Health and Environmental Time Bomb
Makram Haddad 2025-09-03 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
"An expired medication can be just as dangerous as a counterfeit one," says Joe Salloum. A shocking statement, almost a cry of alarm, meant to shake the authorities and shine a spotlight on a long-neglected problem. Yet behind this deliberately dramatic tone, scientific reality calls for more nuance: an expired medication is not always toxic, but ...
Trump says 11 Dead in US Strike on Drug-Carrying Boat from Venezuela
This is Beirut 2025-09-03 11:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Donald Trump USA Venezuela Trafficking Drug
President Donald Trump said US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs to the United States Tuesday, killing 11 "narcoterrorists" from a gang he alleged was controlled by leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Trump posted a video online of an open-topped speedboat carrying a number of people traveling on a body of water before it ...
Iran’s Nuclear Defiance: Diplomacy on Hold, Escalation on Standby
Salam El Zaatari 2025-09-04 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Washington United States Donald Trump
By every measure that counts, Iran is once again daring the West to call its bluff. Less than three months after US and Israeli airstrikes tore into its nuclear facilities, Tehran has chosen defiance over accountability—expelling inspectors, hiding its enriched uranium stockpile and openly daring the international community to stop it. Europe ...
Venice Film Festival a Red Carpet Pulpit for ‘King Giorgio’ Armani
This is Beirut 2025-09-05 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Venice Festival Armani Fashion Tribute Italy Culture
For decades, the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival was one of Giorgio Armani's most high-profile catwalks, with the stars of cinema donning his elegant creations for the eyes of the world. With the death on Thursday, at age 91, of Italy's most famous fashion designer, the prestigious festival on the sandy Lido closes a long chapter, ...
The Spectator and Beyond: Bowie’s Unseen Projects at the V&A Museum
This is Beirut 2025-09-06 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music David Bowie V&A Museum London Britain Culture
David Bowie was working on an "18th century" themed musical at the time of his death, which will feature in a new London center dedicated to the seminal British artist, the BBC reported Friday. The V&A museum will open the free-to-access home for Bowie's vast archive in Stratford, east London, on September 13. One exhibit will be notes from a ...
Thousands pay respects to Italian designer Giorgio Armani
This is Beirut 2025-09-06 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Thousands of mourners began paying homage on Saturday to Italian fashion giant Giorgio Armani, following his death aged 91. The designer died Thursday after months of fragile health and will be laid to rest at a private funeral on Monday in Milan. But members of the public are able to pay their respects this weekend, with his coffin laid out for ...
New Folk Music Documentary Taps Into Bob Dylan Revival
This is Beirut 2025-09-06 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music Bob Dylan Festival Venice Culture Cinema
A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic A Complete Unknown, which starred Timothee Chalamet. Newport and the Great Folk Dream, which premieres at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, charts the development of the Newport ...
Versace Leads Milan Farewell To Fashion Legend Giorgio Armani
This is Beirut 2025-09-07 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Giorgio Armani Fashion Farewell Heritage Culture Art
Thousands of mourners paid homage Saturday to Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, who died this week aged 91, as his coffin was put on public display in Milan. Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace was among those who filed past Armani's closed casket at the headquarters of his multi-billion-euro lifestyle company, which marked its 50th ...
Reinvent Yourself with Color: The Rise of 'Dopamine Dressing'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-07 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Dopamine dressing Fashion Colors Culture Brightness
For years, winter wardrobes were bound by a narrow palette of neutrals. Black, gray and beige reigned supreme, built on the comforting notion that discretion was the height of elegance. But the fashion landscape is shifting. A surge of unapologetically bold hues is sweeping runways and city streets, from high-end collections to ready-to-wear ...
Disarmament: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
Michel Touma 2025-09-08 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
European Union Gulf Hezbollah Joseph Aoun Tehran
The political decision has been made. What matters now is to move to the essentials, cutting through the media noise stirred up by Hezbollah for domestic consumption. From this point forward, it is bold action on the ground that will test the executive branch’s real determination to implement the disarmament of all militias, Lebanese and ...
Ariana Grande Wins Top Prize at MTV Video Music Award
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
MTV Video Music Awards Music Adriana Grande Culture Art Winner
Ariana Grande won the MTV Video Music Awards' top honor on Sunday, taking home Video of the Year for Brighter Days Ahead, which also claimed Best Pop Song at the ceremony near New York City. Visibly emotional while accepting the evening's most prestigious award, the 32-year-old singer-songwriter and actor delivered an extended thank you to her ...
BRICS Leaders Denounce Protectionism, Tariff 'Blackmail'
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
BRICS United States Tariffs Donald Trump
Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and "tariff blackmail" during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging economies met via videoconference at the initiative of Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose office ...
Wave of Drone Strikes Hit Targets Near Sudan Capital
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A wave of drone strikes hit key infrastructure and military targets near Sudan's army-held capital Tuesday, witnesses and officials told AFP, bringing to an abrupt end a period of relative calm in the area. Strikes hit a power station, a weapons factory and an oil refinery near Khartoum, witnesses at the sites said on condition of anonymity, ...