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Ukraine War: Main Developments Since Trump's Inauguration
This is Beirut 2025-08-13 16:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump's summit on Friday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is the latest in a series of diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine since his return to the White House: 'Make a Deal' While campaigning, Trump had promised to end the Ukraine war in "24 hours." On January 20, newly inaugurated, ...
In Heatwave, Romans Turn to Vintage Snow Cones to Stay Cool
This is Beirut 2025-08-13 18:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Forget ice cream, sorbet or even the beloved Italian gelato, when Roman’s swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the traditional "Grattachecca". It may be difficult for non-Italians to pronounce think -"gratta-kekka" - but the Roman-style shaved ice is colorful, cheap and refreshing like no other. In a turn-of-the-century kiosk near the Tiber ...
In Tripoli, One Man Keeps the Tarbouche Tradition Alive
This is Beirut 2025-08-13 20:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Nestled among shops in a bustling market in north Lebanon's Tripoli, Mohammed al-Shaar is at his workshop making traditional tarboosh hats, keeping up a family craft despite dwindling demand. With a thimble on one finger, Shaar, 38, cuts, sews and carefully assembles the pieces of the conical, flat-topped felt hat also known as a fez, attaching a ...
I Could Have Told You… But You Already Know
Marc Saikali 2025-08-14 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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When putting together an editorial, you spend a lot of time mulling things over before settling on what we in the business call an “angle.” But sometimes, there are so many angles, overlapping in every direction, that you end up going in… circles (I know, not the most mathematically precise image). I could have told you about Ahmad ...
Trump Names Stallone, Strait, Gaynor Among 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees
This is Beirut 2025-08-14 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Rocky star Sylvester Stallone and country music great George Strait among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, as he pursues a controversial overhaul of the storied arts venue. Since returning to office in January, the Republican leader has declared war on what he calls "woke" viewpoints ...
EDL: Years of Neglect Behind Lebanon’s Power Cuts
This is Beirut 2025-08-14 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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In a statement released Thursday, Electricité du Liban (EDL) said Lebanon’s electricity network continues to struggle after years of neglect and chronic underinvestment, with key infrastructure destroyed in the 2020 Beirut Port explosion still unreplaced. EDL identified three main causes for the recurring power cuts: production capacity at ...
Basketball: Sergio El-Darwich, the Masked Warrior Carrying Lebanon on His Shoulders
Makram Haddad 2025-08-14 15:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
He had every reason to sit this one out. A broken nose in the opening seconds against Australia, throbbing pain, and yet… Sergio El-Darwich did not shy away from battle. “Anything for my team, anything for my national team,” he says in a breath. On Tuesday night, at the King Abdullah Sports City, the 29-year-old point guard ...
Urban Furnaces or Cool Oases: The Choice Lies Inside Our Walls
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-08-14 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Heat is no longer just a summer inconvenience. With extreme heatwaves becoming more frequent, it is now a risk factor for health, the economy and quality of life. In a country like Lebanon, where urbanization has surged without climate adaptation planning, heatwaves often become an ordeal. Many buildings are made of heat-retaining materials, ...
Starlink in Lebanon: Hopes, Fears and the Battle for the Digital Sky
Liliane Mokbel 2025-08-14 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On Wednesday, Telecommunications Minister Charles Hage removed from the Cabinet agenda a draft law aimed at regulating Starlink’s entry into Lebanon. Officially, the move allows for further study. Unofficially, the issue is already fueling political tensions and heated debate: Is it a threat to digital sovereignty or an opportunity to ...
Lebanon’s Death by a Thousand Hezbollah Cuts
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-08-05 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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It took Lebanon’s cabinet six months to even begin discussing the fate of Hezbollah’s arsenal. Whatever decision emerges will go to the Higher Defense Council for further deliberation and planning, then to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to devise an implementation strategy. If each step takes as long as the first, disarming Hezbollah could be ...
August 4: When Hezbollah Sabotages Lebanon’s Statehood
Michel Touma 2025-08-04 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Five years of impunity… Five years marked by sustained pressure, intimidation, threats and brazen displays of militia and mafia-style tactics, all aimed at obstructing justice. The apocalyptic and tragic August 4, 2020, explosion that tore through the Port of Beirut and devastated nearby neighborhoods including Ashrafieh, Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhail ...
Qassem’s Speech Sparks Political Firestorm in Beirut
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 14:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah’s chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, made unacceptable and controversial remarks, in which he threatened civil strife and linked the survival of Lebanon to the presence of their weapons. These remarks have triggered a wave of condemnations from political and institutional figures committed to defending Lebanese sovereignty. Minister ...
The Middle East: Recalibrations, Fractures and a Coming Storm
Salam El Zaatari 2025-07-24 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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By now, we should know that when the Middle East falls silent, it’s rarely a good sign. As if history itself were pausing for breath, the region today is locked in what I call a “violent pause”—not peace, not war, but something infinitely more dangerous: indecision. The past six months have redrawn the map of alliances and threats, but ...
England Reach Euro 2025 Semis After Shootout Win Over Sweden
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 11:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
England roared into the semi-finals of Women's Euro 2025 on Thursday after coming back from two goals down and then beating Sweden 3-2 on penalties to continue their title defence. Smilla Holmberg blasted over from the spot in an eventful shootout in Zurich after the match finished 2-2 after extra time thanks to Lucy Bronze and Michelle ...
Turkey Arrests 153 Suspected IS Members and Associates
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Turkey has arrested 153 presumed members of the Islamic State group (IS) in nationwide raids, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday. The arrests took place from Izmir and Mugla in the west and southwest, to Hatay and Mardin in the southeast and Samsun on the northern Black Sea coast. "In the course of operations in 28 provinces over the ...
Top Holy Land Clerics Visit Gaza after Deadly Church Strike
This is Beirut 2025-07-18 19:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem made a rare visit to Gaza on Friday, a day after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church, provoking international condemnation. The Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Theophilos III, ...
Errollyn Wallen: King’s Composer Breaking Barriers in Music
This is Beirut 2025-07-21 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Told she would never belong in the world of classical music, Errollyn Wallen has risen to become the composer to King Charles III and the first person of color in the historic role. The 67-year-old became the Master of the King's Music last year, a 400-year-old post and one of the classical world's top honors that involves composing works for ...
Confusion in Syria
David Hale 2025-07-21 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Recent developments in Syria are causing surprise and confusion. In a bold move, President Trump and his administration acquiesced to requests from the Turkish and Saudi leadership and lifted most sanctions on the Ahmed al-Sharaa regime, his Salafist HTS movement, and Syria itself. It did so without conditionality, without much effort to ...
Malcolm-Jamal Warner from 'The Cosby Show' Dies in Drowning Accident
This is Beirut 2025-07-22 09:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his supporting role on The Cosby Show, has died after accidentally drowning in Costa Rica, local police announced Monday. The 54-year-old actor played Theo, the youngest son in the Huxtable family, on the iconic 1980s sitcom. He was nominated for an Emmy Award, the television equivalent of the ...
Why No States for the Druze or the Kurds?
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-07-22 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two ...
Heavy Metal Legend Ozzy Osbourne Dies Peacefully Aged 76
This is Beirut 2025-07-22 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary frontman of heavy metal group Black Sabbath, died on Tuesday at the age of 76, his family announced in a statement. The hell-raising singer, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019, passed away just over two weeks after playing a farewell concert in his home city of Birmingham, England. "It is with more ...
Ozzy Osbourne’s Death: When the Voice of Heavy Metal Falls Silent
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948, into a working-class family in Birmingham, England, Ozzy’s life started far from the stages he would eventually command. Nicknamed “Ozzy” as a boy, he left school at 15, struggling with dyslexia and working jobs such as a plumber’s assistant and at an abattoir. Inspired by hearing The Beatles ...
Versailles Invades Wall Street with Poisons, Drag, and Opera
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Acrobatics, fortune tellers, opulent gowns and palace intrigue: the New York debut of the Versailles Royal Opera Orchestra was a performance befitting the era it recalls. Monday's immersive show: The Affair of the Poisons centered on France's 17th-century period of excess and seediness that its creator, Andrew Ousley, told AFP has parallels to ...
Tributes Flood in for Black Sabbath Frontman Ozzy Osbourne
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 16:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Tributes poured in Wednesday for hell-raiser singer Ozzy Osbourne as Black Sabbath bandmates mourned the death of their legendary frontman and tearful fans laid flowers in his hometown Birmingham, just weeks after he played an epic reunion concert there. Osbourne, nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness" who famously once bit off the head of a bat ...
Bedouins, Not So Nomadic After All
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-23 16:50 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Clashes between Bedouin tribes and Druze factions in Syria’s Sweida province have reignited attention on the political and militarized role of these communities. But across the border in Lebanon, another question emerges: Who are the Lebanese Bedouins? The issue takes on renewed urgency amid reports that several of them, notably from Wadi ...
Turkey: A Global Power Broker
This is Beirut 2025-07-23 21:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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From Ukraine to Syria, including Iran, Turkey has emerged in recent years as a pivotal diplomatic force, multiplying its mediation efforts across a spectrum of regional crises. This active, multi-front diplomacy serves both to safeguard its national security and to solidify its position as a key player on the global stage. Turkey’s strategic ...
Madame Tussauds Honors Taylor Swift With Record 13 Wax Figures
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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US pop megastar Taylor Swift will be honored with 13 waxworks of her at Madame Tussauds venues around the globe, the museum said on Wednesday. In honor of Swift's lucky number, 13 of the waxwork museum's 22 branches will each receive a statue of the Love Story and Blank Space singer, in what it called the "most ambitious project" of its 250-year ...
Clothing the Silence: Widows' Attires Around the World
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-08-03 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The death of a husband never left women untouched in terms of dress. From Victorian black crepe to Hindu white saris, a widow’s clothing is a signal. It embodies absence. It draws a line between before and after. It imposes on the female body a way of existing in the world, between pain, modesty and sometimes submission. And while mourning is ...
Pro Wrestling Legend Hulk Hogan Dead At 71
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hulk Hogan, the iconic face of professional wrestling in the 1980s who parlayed his prowess in the ring into an acting career, has died at the age of 71, US media reported Thursday. Hogan -- a Hall of Fame talent known for his towering 6'7" (two-meter) physique, bandana and distinctive blond handlebar mustache -- died at his home in Florida, NBC ...
Unseen and Unspoken: The Enigma of Pregnancy Denial
David Sahyoun 2025-07-24 22:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Some births occur without anticipation, as if the child arrived out of time. Pregnancy denial is neither deception nor performance. It is a psychic reality that takes shape without words, a pregnancy the body conceals and the mind excludes. This clinical enigma raises profound questions about motherhood, the female body, generational transmission ...