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The Maghreb: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Challenge of Power
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
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As the Arab Spring unfolded, several political movements inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood sought to rise to power across the Maghreb. In Tunisia, it was Ennahda; in Morocco, the Justice and Development Party (PJD); and in Algeria, the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP). The period proved favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology, ...
Sharaa in Washington: A Turning Point for Syria
Seth J. Frantzman 2025-11-12 16:00 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Syria Washington United States Donald Trump Ahmad al-Sharaa
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited the White House on Monday for a historic meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that capped a year in which Damascus has rapidly come in from the cold and reintegrated into the international community. Sharaa has helped steer Syria through this complex path, beginning with pushing the Assad regime out of ...
Hezbollah, Iran and Israel with Brian Katulis
Tylia El Helou 2025-11-12 22:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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On this week’s episode of This is America, we cover Ahmad Al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House and the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. We also feature an exclusive interview with Brian Katulis, who shares his insights on the disarming of Hezbollah and the prospects for peace in the region.
Disarming Hezbollah Starts with the Banks
Marc Saikali 2025-11-13 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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One billion dollars. That is the sum Hezbollah is said to have received from Iran in 2025. An astonishing figure, revealed during the highly political visit of the U.S. Treasury delegation led by Sebastian Gorka, the White House’s counterterrorism director. How did the militia manage to receive such an amount? Through currency exchange offices, ...
Ten Years After Paris Attacks, Jihadist Threat Has Evolved
This is Beirut 2025-11-13 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world's two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say. With strong central leadership, the groups were once able to train and then send commandos into Europe ...
Syria to Help US Fight Iran-Backed Armed Groups, Envoy Says
This is Beirut 2025-11-13 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syria will play an active role in assisting the United States in fighting armed groups including Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah, US special envoy Tom Barrack said on Thursday. Islamist interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, himself a former jihadist, became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since his country's ...
The LAP Turns Back Time: Lebanon’s First International Stamp Exhibition
Makram Haddad 2025-11-14 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Century of Stamps, a Memory on Gummed Paper The Lebanese postage stamp appeared for the first time in 1924–1925, with the issue of a series featuring the eternal cedar of Lebanon, but inscribed with the words “Grand Liban” (“Greater Lebanon”). Until 1918, the year the Ottoman armies withdrew, the territory used Ottoman stamps or ...
Jeita Grotto: The Hidden Truth the State Refuses to See
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-11-14 16:05 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Instead of properly closing a case that should never have existed, the report published on November 13 about the Jeita Grotto incident only deepens the concern, revealing a far more troubling reality. Institutional and scientific oversight is disturbingly lax. Procedures are improvised, responsibilities evaporate, decisions are made without a ...
YouTube Star MrBeast Brings 'Beast Land' to Riyadh Season Festival
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 17:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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MrBeast, the world's most followed YouTuber with over 450 million subscribers, opened a temporary amusement park in Riyadh on Thursday, the latest celebrity drawn to Saudi Arabia as it aspires to become a major entertainment hub. Eager for a chance to meet the social media star, families and teenagers gathered at "Beast Land," a venue featuring ...
Money Laundering: BDL Introduces Next-Generation KYC
Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-14 18:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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On November 14, 2025, BDL issued Decision No. 13769, Circular No. 3, introducing a new “Know Your Customer” (KYC) form for all cash, foreign exchange, and money transfer transactions of $1,000 or more, and their equivalent. The measure applies to all non-banking financial institutions under BDL’s supervision, including financial companies, ...
Syria Foils Two Islamic State Plots to Assassinate Sharaa
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 15:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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According to Reuters, Syrian authorities have thwarted two separate Islamic State (IS) plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa in recent months, in what officials described as a direct threat to the leader as he prepares to join a U.S.-led coalition against the militant group. Two senior officials, one Syrian and one from the broader ...
Syrian President to Visit White House for Landmark Talks
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks, just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, will be the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the ...
Saudi Prince, Eyeing Defence Pledge, to Meet Trump After Long US Absence
This is Beirut 2025-11-15 12:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will press for security guarantees while US President Donald Trump will urge him to normalise ties with Israel when the de facto Saudi ruler breaks a seven-year absence from Washington this week. Saudi Arabia is unlikely to agree to normalisation at this stage, with Prince Mohammed's priority set for firmer US ...
The Atelier des Lumières Lands on the Moon: An Immersive Odyssey by Tom Hanks
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-11-06 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In the heart of Paris, the Atelier des Lumières once again welcomes visitors in search of an extraordinary immersive art experience. This time, it’s not a single artist or a specific work on display — it’s a voyage into the cosmos: Destination Moon. At the Atelier des Lumières, an exploration of lunar conquest co-written by Tom Hanks ...
Egypt Unveils Grand Egyptian Museum Near Ancient Pyramids
This is Beirut 2025-11-02 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Egypt officially opened on Saturday the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur that Cairo hopes will revive tourism and boost its battered economy. "Today, as we celebrate together the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, we are writing a new chapter in the history of the present and the future," ...
Syrian Leader to Discuss Sanctions, Reconstruction in US Visit
This is Beirut 2025-11-02 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Syria's president will discuss issues including lifting remaining sanctions, reconstruction, and counter-terrorism when he becomes the country's first leader to pay an official visit to Washington later this month, the foreign minister said Sunday. Ahmed al-Sharaa is expected in the US capital in early November, Syria's top diplomat Asaad ...
Microsoft Unveils $15.2 Billion AI Investments in UAE
This is Beirut 2025-11-03 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced $15.2 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft's vice chairman and president Brad Smith said Microsoft had invested $7.3 billion in the Gulf country since 2023 and would spend $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029. The deal sent US ...
A Peacemaker Visits a Land of Perpetual War
Alberto M. Fernandez 2025-11-04 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV’s expected visit to Lebanon later this month comes at a moment of peril for the country. Lebanon’s most recent war, launched by Hezbollah on October 8, 2023, has barely ended, with Israel threatening to renew the conflict at any moment should Hezbollah not disarm. The Lebanese government has pledged to assert state power and ...
PKK Leader Ocalan Urges Progress in Turkish Peace Process
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Öcalan called in a message published on Tuesday for all parties to the peace process in Turkey to make genuine efforts to ensure it succeeds. Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), is spearheading efforts to move from a four-decade armed Kurdish rebellion against the Turkish state ...
Aoun’s Push for Talks with Israel Must Overcome Hezbollah’s Ploys
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-11-04 18:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
President Joseph Aoun said Lebanon has no choice but to enter into talks with Israel to break the cycle of war, a step that media reports suggest he had agreed on with Hezbollah’s ally, Speaker Nabih Berri. Aoun’s position is commendable, but Hezbollah will use such talks as cover to rearm and prepare for another round of fighting, rather than ...
French Pair Released after 3-year Iran Jail Ordeal
This is Beirut 2025-11-04 21:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran has released from prison a French pair held for more than three years and sentenced to lengthy jail sentences on espionage charges their families always rejected, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, both retired teachers, were both on a tourist visit to Iran when they were arrested ...
King Tut’s Collection Displayed for First Time at Egypt’s Grand Museum
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures, over 4,500 artifacts, was displayed together for the first time since the young pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922. Curated and conserved over nearly two decades, the collection was unveiled to the ...
Juan Carlos Breaks His Silence in Reconciliation, the Memoirs of a Fallen King
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 19:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Royals Juan Carlos Memoirs History Spain Culture
Mixing historic anecdotes and regret over his own scandals, Spain's exiled king Juan Carlos I seeks to reconcile himself with his family and nation in newly published memoirs that offer dramatic reminiscences from one of the last surviving players of 20th-century history. From holding Franco's hand on the dictator's deathbed to helping defuse a ...
Trump to Host his First Summit with Central Asian Leaders
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump will host all five Central Asian leaders in Washington on Thursday for the first time, a few months after they held separate summits with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. The West has upped its interest in the resource-rich region, where Moscow's traditional influence has been questioned since the ...
Fears of a New Conflict Between Eritrea and Ethiopia
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 09:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of "preparing to wage war", Eritrea retorts that its neighbor's words were fuelling "dangerous conflicts", and analysts fear another war is brewing in the volatile Horn of Africa. What does Ethiopia want? For months, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been demanding access to the sea for his landlocked country ...
Louvre Heist a 'Deafening Wake-up Call' for Museum Security
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Last month's spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France's crown jewels, was a "deafening wake-up call" for museum security, the head of France's highest audit institution said Thursday. Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a "woefully inadequate pace", Pierre Moscovici told a press ...
Suspect in 1994 Panama Plane Bombing Arrested in Venezuela
This is Beirut 2025-11-09 20:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Panamanian authorities announced Sunday the arrest in Venezuela of the suspected mastermind behind a 1994 plane bombing that killed 21 people, mostly Jewish, in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. The aircraft, Alas Chiricanas Flight 901, exploded shortly after takeoff from an airport in Panama’s Colón province on the night of July ...
Pope Leo Receives Palestinian President Abbas at Vatican
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Thursday, where the Vatican said they discussed the "urgent need" to help the civilian population in Gaza. The visit comes almost a month into a fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, following two years of war triggered by the Palestinian group's October 7, 2023, ...
Lebanon Faces ‘Environmental Disaster’ From Syrian Refugee Camps
Hala Abdallah 2025-11-06 14:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Lebanon launched the eighth wave of voluntary returns of displaced Syrians on Thursday morning, with 448 refugees departing from the Rachid Karami International Fair in Tripoli toward the Al-Abbudieh border crossing in Akkar. The returnees were transported in five groups aboard 14 buses and 14 trucks, as part of an organized repatriation program ...
The U.S. Urges the UN to Lift Sanctions on Syria’s President
Paul Guillot 2025-11-06 16:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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According to a draft obtained by The Associated Press, the U.S. is asking the Security Council to remove a set of sanctions imposed on Ahmad al-Sharaa and his Interior Minister Anas Hasan Khattab. The resolution could be put to a vote as early as Thursday. To pass, it must secure at least nine votes and avoid a veto from any of the five permanent ...