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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)
Widows Dresses World Rituals Mourning
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 ...
TV Heroines: 10 Female Characters We Love to Hate
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-25 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 ...