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The Gentle Dictatorship of the Socio-Economic
David Sahyoun 2025-12-03 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Socio-Economic Dictatorship
Domination does not always present itself through harshness. Some forms advance gently, not through coercion but through the pull of seduction. They show no signs of authoritarian rule and present themselves instead as paths that promise freedom. The current socio-economic order belongs to this quiet family of tyrannies. It draws individuals into ...
Iran Filmmaker Panahi to Return Home Despite Prison Sentence
This is Beirut 2025-12-05 19:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Jafar Panahi Justice Iran Culture
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has said he plans to return to Iran despite being sentenced to a year in prison and a travel ban earlier this week, a report said Thursday. The 65-year-old is currently touring to promote his latest Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, which won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this ...
Amine Hachem: Bringing Arabic Opera to the World
Lea Mehanna 2025-12-07 16:50 - Reading : less than a minute
On this episode of ‘’This Is Arts’’, Lebanese-American opera and crossover tenor Amine Hachem shares the story behind his latest music video, ‘’Ghannaki Al Qalb’’, which reached #1 on YouTube Music in Lebanon, and his ambitious vision for ‘’Antar & Abla’’. Bringing together talent from across the globe, he’s shaping an ...
Farewell to Martin Parr, Britain’s Relentless Chronicler in Colour
This is Beirut 2025-12-08 15:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Martin Parr Photographer Death Culture Britain
Celebrated British documentary photographer Martin Parr has died at his home in the western English city Bristol, his foundation announced on Sunday. He was 73. Famous for his kitschy colour-saturated images capturing all aspects of life in Britain and beyond, Parr had a sharp eye for mundane oddities, whether it was the rich at play or ...
Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon and Bekaa Valley
This is Beirut 2025-12-25 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel carried out an air strike late Wednesday on a vehicle in the town of Jannata, in the southern city of Tyre, saying it targeted a Hezbollah operative. The strike injured one passerby, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. Then Thursday morning, an Israeli drone carried out a raid targeting a minibus on the Hosh ...
Paramount Counters Netflix with Hostile Bid for Warner Bros
This is Beirut 2025-12-08 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paramount Netflix Warner Bros.
Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer Monday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for $30 per share, challenging a previously announced deal between WBD and Netflix. The hostile offer sets up a furious battle between Paramount, whose owner Larry Ellison is an ally of Donald Trump, and streaming behemoth Netflix to buy one of Hollywood's most ...
Yemen Leader Warns Separatists a 'Serious Threat' after Territorial Gains
This is Beirut 2025-12-08 23:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Yemen Houthi Movement Rashad al-Alimi
The leader of Yemen's internationally recognized government criticized separatists who have made large territorial gains in a near bloodless takeover in recent days, calling them a threat to the country's stability. Last week, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, which wants to revive an independent South Yemen, swept through large parts ...
No More Free Passes: U.S. Ties Security Aid to Lebanese Action
Amal Chmouny 2025-12-11 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanese Army Lebanon US congress NDAA Hezbollah Disarmament
The U.S. Congress has sent a clear, stern message to Beirut that Washington’s support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is no longer a blank check. The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), up for a vote in the House of Representatives, imposes new conditions and restrictions on U.S. aid to the Lebanese army, ...
Jaber’s Blunt Truth: The Law that Destroys Banks and Wipe Out Savings
This is Beirut 2025-12-13 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber did not mince words: “The banks will be the first losers” if the Financial Gap Law is enacted. And if the banks lose, depositors inevitably lose too. The draft law places the full burden of repaying deposits on the banks alone — a move that would inevitably destroy the Lebanese banking sector and wipe out ...
Hamas Says Weapons Are 'Legitimate Right', Open to Proposals That Preserve It
This is Beirut 2025-12-14 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas Gaza Israel Khalil al-Hayya
Hamas's Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said on Sunday that the militant group had a "legitimate right" to hold weapons and that any proposal for the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire must uphold that right. "Resistance and its weapons are a legitimate right guaranteed by international law and are linked to the establishment of a Palestinian state," ...
Israel Launches Airstrikes on Hezbollah Targets Across Lebanon
This is Beirut 2025-12-18 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Baalbeck Hezbollah Israel Hermel South Lebanon
Israeli warplanes struck multiple sites across southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday, targeting Hezbollah military infrastructure including a compound used for training and weapons storage, the IDF said. According to the Israeli army, the strikes dismantled militant infrastructure and launch sites where Hezbollah operatives underwent shooting ...
Egypt Says Israel Gas Deal 'Commercial', Not 'Political'
This is Beirut 2025-12-18 18:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egyptian authorities confirmed on Thursday a major deal to import natural gas from Israel, saying the agreement had nothing to do with politics and served a strategic interest for the country. "The deal is a purely commercial transaction concluded exclusively on the basis of economic and investment considerations, and does not involve any ...
Israel's Security Cabinet Approves 19 New Settlements in West Bank
This is Beirut 2025-12-21 13:16 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel West Bank Israeli Settlements Palestinians
Israel's security cabinet approved the establishment of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move the country's far-right finance minister said on Sunday was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. The decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to a ...
A Financial Gap Law That Writes Off Deposits and Submits to the IMF
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In appearance, Finance Minister Yassin Jaber sought to present his meeting with the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) delegation at the Ministry of Finance as a broad, constructive session that projected an image of consensus. His public remarks reinforced this impression, suggesting that both sides—the ministry and the banks—were aligned ...
Trees, Targets and Trillions: What's on the Agenda at COP30?
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Nations Brasil COP30 Belem Climate
This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them all, but unlike recent editions, this "COP" has ...
Trump Says Not Winning Nobel Would Be an 'Insult' to The US
This is Beirut 2025-09-30 22:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump said Tuesday it would be an "insult" to the United States if he does not receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his self-proclaimed role in solving multiple wars. Trump, who has long sought the prize, which will be unveiled on October 10, made the latest push for his case a day after he announced a peace plan to end ...
Four Gaza hostage bodies brought into Israel
This is Beirut 2025-10-13 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Red Cross Gaza Hamas
The bodies of four hostages held in Gaza and handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas on Monday were brought back to Israel, the army said. The remains in four coffins arrived on Monday night at the National Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, an AFP journalist reported. There, "identification procedures will be carried out," the ...
Palestinians Return to Devastated Gaza City as Truce Holds
This is Beirut 2025-10-11 16:18 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to a devastated Gaza City on Saturday, the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with many stunned by the destruction even as others were relieved to find their homes still standing. Israel agreed to the truce on Friday and pulled back troops from several areas of the territory, ...
Intense Israeli Airstrikes Hit Msayleh
This is Beirut 2025-10-11 17:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah strike
At around 3:45 AM, Israeli warplanes carried out twelve air raids targeting the area surrounding the Msayleh–Najariya highway and the adjacent valley, causing extensive destruction and cutting off the main road. The strikes destroyed more than 300 heavy machines, including bulldozers and excavators, among them over 100 small ...
Guillermo Del Toro Backs Paris Stop-Motion Animation Studio
This is Beirut 2025-10-12 12:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Film Animation Guillermo del Toro Education France Culture
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said Friday he was teaming up with a Paris film school and Netflix to launch a training studio to help old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques survive. Stop motion is the oldest form of animation, involving manipulating real-life models to create films frame-by-frame. It dates back to the late 19th ...
China, Philippines Trade Blame over Boat Collision in Disputed Sea
This is Beirut 2025-10-12 12:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Philippines said a Chinese ship deliberately rammed one of its government vessels in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, although Beijing blamed Manila for the incident. Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the contested waterway, which Beijing claims nearly in its entirety despite an international ...
Negotiation: The Art of Compromise
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-10-12 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Hamas Middle East Compromise Conflict
This week, negotiation took center stage. After nearly two years of war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages — a breakthrough brokered in Egypt with the support of the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. The deal marks the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace ...
Latest Developments Since the Gaza Ceasefire
This is Beirut 2025-10-12 17:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A Gaza ceasefire was holding for a third day on Sunday, ahead of a proposed hostage-prisoner exchange and a summit aimed at charting a path to peace after two years of war. US President Donald Trump is among the leaders expected in Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday for the Gaza peace summit co-hosted by his Egyptian ...
Sharm el-Sheikh Summit: Putting an End to the Charade
Michel Touma 2025-10-13 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Fatah Hamas Hezbollah Gaza Sharm el-Sheikh
The cloth doesn’t make the cleric… The old saying fits neatly when it comes to Hamas and the latest turn in the war it launched on October 7, 2023, with its massive and deadly offensive against Israel from Gaza. Two years into a conflict that has plunged the Palestinian population into a nightmare, the Islamist movement has just endorsed, ...
Latest Developments in the Gaza Ceasefire
This is Beirut 2025-10-13 10:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Palestine Ceasefire Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron European Union
Hamas handed over the first seven of 20 surviving Israeli hostages to Red Cross representatives in Gaza City, the Israeli army said, as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal. US President Donald Trump arrived in Israel for a trip which will also take him to Egypt, where he will co-host a Gaza peace summit with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah ...
US Tariffs on Timber, Furniture Take Effect
This is Beirut 2025-10-14 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump USA Shipping Tariffs
US fresh tariffs on imported wood, furniture and kitchen cabinets took effect Tuesday, a development likely to fuel building costs and pile pressure on homebuyers in an already challenging market. The duties were imposed to boost US industries and protect national security, according to the White House, and they broaden a slate of ...
Israel Ceases Fire and Gazans Start Returning Home
This is Beirut 2025-10-10 17:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Ceasefire Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza
Israel declared a ceasefire in Gaza and began to pull back its forces on Friday, as tens of thousands of exhausted Palestinians made their way back to their devastated homes. After two years of brutal war, the families of Israel's remaining hostages in the territory were also hoping the truce -- pushed by US President Donald Trump -- would ...
Sean Penn Captivates Lyon with His Unexpected Dream Role
This is Beirut 2025-10-14 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sean Penn Actor Cinema Culture Art Lyon
“The dream role is the one that surprises you the way this one did,” said American actor Sean Penn on Monday in Lyon, central France, reflecting on his part as a sadistic soldier in his latest film One Battle After Another. Honored as the guest of the 17th Lumière Film Festival—an event celebrating global cinema—Penn shared insights ...
Saluting Those Who Stand for Peace
Johnny Kortbawi 2025-10-14 14:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hamas Hezbollah Camp David Donald Trump Gaza Sharm al-Sheikh
The latest events in Sharm al-Sheikh echo the spirit of the Camp David Accords nearly 50 years ago, a historic turning point that reshaped the trajectory of the Arab world. In the aftermath of the 1967 Naksa (the defeat) and amid shifting regional realities, Egypt and Jordan would later move toward peace with Israel. At that time, Egypt commanded ...
Trump Pressures Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah Following Gaza Agreement
Amal Chmouny 2025-10-15 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah United States
In the wake of the recent Gaza peace agreement, the United States is sharpening its focus on disarming Hezbollah, the militant group that has long contributed to Lebanon's instability. The aftermath of this agreement is expected to catalyze significant geopolitical shifts, compelling external powers, particularly the US, to take decisive actions ...