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Louvre Museum Closed as Workers Strike
This is Beirut 2025-12-15 12:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Louvre Museum closed its doors to thousands of disappointed visitors on Monday as staff launched a strike to protest working conditions at the Paris landmark, two months after a shocking robbery. Workers are demanding extra staff and measures to tackle overcrowding, adding to the woes of the world's most visited museum just as France is ...
Lancel’s B.B.: Parisian Glamour Inspired by Brigitte Bardot
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-12-14 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Brigitte Bardot B.B Lancel Bags Iconic Fashion Culture
How do you create a bag inspired by an icon like Brigitte Bardot? How can an accessory express the freedom, instinct, and tenderness she embodies? In embracing this challenge, Lancel was not aiming simply to produce a collaboration. The house sought to capture what Bardot represents in the collective imagination: a feeling of lightness, a sense of ...
Army Denies Presence of Weapons in a House in Yanouh
This is Beirut 2025-12-14 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese army said on Sunday that it had carried out two successive inspections of a building in the town of Yanouh, in southern Lebanon, without finding any weapons or ammunition, following an Israeli threat to strike the property. In a statement posted on X, the army said the first search was conducted on Saturday with the consent of the ...
Lebanon on Edge as Israel Raises the Stakes
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-12-12 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The run-up to the mechanism meeting scheduled for December 19 is shaping up to be particularly tense—and for good reason. Israel has been gathering extensive data on Hezbollah’s efforts to rebuild its military capabilities. Israeli representative Yury Reisnick is expected to present these findings to the head of the Lebanese delegation, former ...
Real-Life Horror to TV Drama: Feared Syria Sites Become Sets for series
This is Beirut 2025-12-11 16:42 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
At a Damascus airbase once off-limits under Bashar al-Assad, a crew now films a TV series about the final months of the ousted leader's rule as seen through the eyes of a Syrian family. "It's hard to believe we're filming here," director Mohamad Abdul Aziz said from the Mazzeh base, which was once also a detention center run by Assad's air force ...
LAU Medical Center – Rizk Hospital: A Century of Medicine at the Heart of Beirut
Makram Haddad 2025-12-09 15:10 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
LAU Lebanon Achrafieh Hospital Rizk Hospital
A hundred years ago, a young surgeon just back from Paris put up a sign near the Nasra tram stop in Sodeco: “Dr. Toufic Rizk Clinic.” Twelve beds, three nurses, one passion: practicing modern surgery in a Lebanon still finding its way. At the time, no one could have imagined that this small beginning would grow into a full hospital in 1957 ...
OpenAI Unveils Search Browser in Challenge to Google
This is Beirut 2025-10-21 22:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday announced an "Atlas" search browser, leveraging its artificial intelligence prowess in a direct challenge to Google Chrome. "This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT," OpenAI chief Sam Altman said in a streamed presentation. OpenAI has ramped up its challenge to Google, which has responded by rapidly ...
The Soft Narrative of Hezbollah’s Terror
Johnny Kortbawi 2025-10-21 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Every era has its instruments of propaganda — voices that amplify power, shaping history, politics, and identity to advance agendas far removed from democratic principles and the natural order of events. Since the assassination of Hezbollah’s former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, and after a period of denial and confusion within the ...
Solomonic Judgment
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-01 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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International issues are pending, and nothing seems to move toward negotiated solutions across Ukraine and the wide arc of conflicts extending through the Middle East. None of the actors is interested in peacemaking; on the contrary, these zones of active conflict tend to work in the best interests of countries vying for imperial conquests and ...
Hamas: A Shattered Sham
Mario Chartouni 2025-09-15 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel’s strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday marked a sharp turning point. For the first time, Israel targeted the political heart of the Islamist movement outside its traditional battlegrounds. In Doha, where Hamas believed it had secured a safe and comfortable refuge, missiles served as a stark reminder that even gilded hotels and ...
Addiction: A Cry from a Distressed Self
David Sahyoun 2025-09-17 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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What if addiction is not simply an excess, but a silent call to fill an absence? From a psychoanalytic standpoint, dependence expresses the language of a body left without symbolic support. Psychoanalysis examines the unconscious roots of addiction, its connection to trauma, and its ties to the maternal bond. Addiction can be understood as a way ...
Messi Scores Goal And Sets Up Another As Miami Beats Seattle
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lionel Messi scored one goal and set up another to spark Inter Miami over the Seattle Sounders 3-1 on Tuesday in an MLS rematch of a melee-capped Leagues Cup final. The 38-year-old Argentine striker who starred for Barcelona and led his homeland to the 2022 World Cup set up Spaniard Jordi Alba's goal in the 12th minute and scored in the 41st to ...
Khalil Khamis Speaks Out on Criticisms, Coach Radulović , and the Local League
Hala Abdallah 2025-09-16 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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National team defender Khalil Khamis breaks his silence on Lebanon’s football team, Coach Radulović, and the local league. How did he respond to the mounting criticism? Find out in this episode of This is Sports on This is Beirut’s website and YouTube channel.
Nvidia says Complies with Law After China Antitrust Finding
This is Beirut 2025-09-16 09:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US chip giant Nvidia said Tuesday it follows all laws after a Chinese investigation found it had breached antitrust rules, the latest development in a fierce tech battle between Beijing and Washington. "We comply with the law in all respects," a spokesperson for Nvidia said in a written statement to AFP. "We will continue to cooperate with all ...
Israel sets Gaza 'on Fire' as Rubio Warns Days Left for Deal
This is Beirut 2025-09-16 08:58 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israel unleashed a massive new bombing campaign on Gaza City on Tuesday after visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed the ally's goal of eradicating Hamas and warned that only days may be left for a diplomatic solution. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said early Tuesday that Gaza City, the territory's main urban hub, was ...
US Says 'Framework' Deal with China on TikTok Ownership
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 21:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United States and China announced a "framework" deal on Monday to resolve their dispute over TikTok that calls for the Chinese-owned app to pass to US-controlled ownership. In a social media post, US President Donald Trump said, without directly naming the social media giant, that a deal was reached with a "certain company that ...
Alonso's Real Madrid Revitalised For New Champions League Mission
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 14:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Record 15-time kings of Europe Real Madrid open their new Champions League campaign on Tuesday against Marseille hoping they now have the coach and squad to reconquer the throne. Madrid refreshed their squad this summer with several new signings at a cost of around 170 million euros ($200 million) and hired former midfielder Xabi Alonso to ...
King Charles Hails Trump's 'Personal Commitment' to Peace
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 23:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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U.S. president Donald Trump was treated to a sumptuous royal state banquet in Windsor Castle, rounding off the US president's first full day of a historic second state visit to Britain. Before some 160 guests at the start of the lavish event, designed to play into the mercurial American leader's love of pomp and pageantry, King Charles ...
US 'Very Close' to TikTok Deal with China: US Treasury Chief
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States is "very close" to a deal with China to settle their dispute over TikTok, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday as the two sides resumed trade talk in Madrid. Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng opened the latest round of discussions in Madrid on Sunday, seeking to narrow differences on trade and technology that ...
Palestinian Circumlocutions
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-15 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The unending Palestinian saga seems to thrive on power politics entanglements, unwinding political patronages and the externalization of blame without any critical retrospection to figure out the rationale behind the unending cycles of political entrapment and outright instrumentation. We are faced with a behavioral pattern that never belied ...
New Round of US-China Trade Talks Kicks Off in Madrid
This is Beirut 2025-09-14 17:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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China and the United States kicked off the latest round of trade talks on Sunday in Madrid, where they are set to thrash out their TikTok dispute and President Donald Trump's promised hefty tariffs. The Chinese delegation is in the Spanish capital until Wednesday and senior officials, including Vice Premier He Lifeng, will meet with the US ...
The Tom & Jerry of Politics: When Enemies Become Friends
Pierre Nahas 2025-09-14 16:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Have you ever watched that episode of Tom & Jerry when Jerry befriended Tom to plot against their common enemy, the bulldog Spike? This phenomenon, which is much more common than people think, has been around for centuries across various fields, particularly politics. Among the most unusual and controversial friendships out there, we find the ...
Shrekking: When Modern Dating Gets Ugly
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-09-14 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
What happens when fairytales meet the brutal realities of modern dating? Welcome to the world of shrekking, the latest Gen Z dating term making waves on TikTok and Instagram. On the surface, it sounds fanciful, even harmless. After all, who doesn’t love Shrek, the green ogre with a heart of gold? But in dating slang, shrekking has little to do ...
Israel Army Says over 250,000 Residents Have Left Gaza City
This is Beirut 2025-09-13 19:54 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli military said Saturday that more than 250,000 people had fled Gaza City since it began intensifying operations there, as Palestinian officials reported many had been unable to evacuate south due to overcrowding. The United Nations estimated in late August that about one million Palestinians lived in and around Gaza's largest urban ...
Palestinians Flee Gaza City Amid Israeli Offensive
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On foot, by bike, or in vehicles, Palestinians are fleeing Gaza City in large numbers, targeted by a major Israeli military offensive whose bombings killed dozens across the territory on Wednesday. With U.S. support, Israel announced Tuesday the start of a ground and air campaign in Gaza City aimed at destroying the Palestinian Islamist group ...
Trump's UK State Visit Gets Political After Royal Welcome
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 12:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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After the royal hospitality and pageantry, US President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK takes a serious turn on Thursday when he is hosted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for wide-ranging talks. Starmer will greet Trump on the second day of the visit at his country residence, Chequers, with pressing issues such as trade, ...
Leonardo DiCaprio Battles Trauma and Tyranny in Bold Thriller
This is Beirut 2025-09-12 12:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Radical violence. Immigration raids. White supremacists. Leonardo DiCaprio's politically charged new movie One Battle After Another could scarcely be more timely. Part-action, part-drama, with plenty of comedy and almost guaranteed a bagful of Oscar nominations, the film centers on an ageing revolutionary and his teenage daughter. It delivers a ...
Apocalypticism and War Ending
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-22 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The paradoxes of the Islamic summit are blatant and quite equivocal. One wonders what elicited this mobilization after two years of apathy and diplomatic inaction. An early summit could have spared Gaza and its population the tragedies brought about by the apocalyptic vision of Hamas, the cynicism of its handlers and leaders and their ruinous ...
Rebuilding to Restore Control? Hezbollah’s $3 Billion Gamble
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-09-25 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Three billion dollars. That is the amount estimated by Hezbollah for the reconstruction of war-torn areas through its Waad project and the Jihad al-Bina association. Yet such a figure immediately raises questions. The group is widely believed to be strapped for cash—squeezed by US sanctions and by a land, air and sea blockade meant to choke off ...
Addiction: The Body Speaks the Unspoken
David Sahyoun 2025-09-24 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Addiction Psychoanalysis Drugs Alcohol Culture Emptiness
Understanding addiction means looking beyond the mere fact of dependency. If the first part traced the origins of emptiness and the formation of lack, the challenge now is to grasp why—when suffering cannot be symbolized—the body steps in and makes the symptom speak. Since Freud, psychoanalysis has tried to probe what escapes language: ...