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Is Peace Now Possible Amid Collapse of Iran’s Imperialism?
Charles Chartouni 2025-11-25 09:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The epilogue of the cascading wars that have taken place since October 7, 2023, was quite promising since the destruction of Iran’s regional proxy network was a good omen. For the first time, the region was able to imagine the possibility of extracting itself from the tight clasp of Iranian Shiite imperialism. Nonetheless, however bright the ...
Zeitz MOCAA: Africa Tells Its Story in a Silo Cathedral
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-22 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Zeitz MOCAA Africa Museum Culture Cape Town
The offshore winds of Cape Town still carry the memory of the port, the muted echoes of colonial trade, and the vertical dream of a continent gazing toward the horizon. At the far end of the Waterfront in the Silo District, a silent concrete giant, abandoned for decades, has come to life as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Entering ...
Lebanon’s F&B Boom Masks Illicit-Economy Risks
Salam El Zaatari 2025-11-22 15:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Lebanon finds itself in a paradox. While its broader economy is collapsing, the food-and-beverage (F&B) sector is showing surprising vitality. It may look like a feel-good tale of resilience, but in fact it reveals one of the greatest structural threats to Lebanon’s recovery: a cash-based economy that undermines transparency, fuels illicit ...
Jafar Panahi Accelerates Awards Campaign Amid Global Political Constraints
This is Beirut 2025-11-21 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States — visiting Los Angeles, New York and Telluride — as he promotes his Oscar-hopeful It Was Just an Accident. The film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, has been selected by France as its official nomination for the Academy Awards, ...
New Strikes on Gaza Kill Five
This is Beirut 2025-11-20 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed five people on Thursday, as ceasefire mediator Qatar warned the renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile weeks-long truce between Israel and Hamas. The new strikes came the morning after one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the truce began on October 10. Qatar, ...
Repairing the Spine Without Opening the Body: The Promise of Surgical Robotics
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-20 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The spine has always symbolized human fragility. Operating on it once meant risking pain, complications, or even paralysis. Spine surgery traditionally involved large incisions, long recoveries, and deep scars. Now, in Nancy, a trio of pioneering doctors is redefining the rules with minimally invasive robotic spine surgery: a breakthrough that ...
US Presses Ukraine to Cede Land as Russian Strikes Kill 26
This is Beirut 2025-11-20 09:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A new US peace proposal would see Kyiv ceding land and more than halving its army, a source told AFP Wednesday, as a Russian strike in the west of Ukraine killed 26 people, including three children. The proposal appears to repeat Russia's maximalist terms to end the war -- demands consistently rejected by Ukraine as tantamount to ...
Blue Origin Launches NASA Mars Mission and Nails Booster Landing
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 09:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday with NASA twin spacecraft destined for Mars aboard and, in a breakthrough, nailed the landing of its booster. The launch was stalled for days over weather both on Earth and in space, but it was worth the wait: in the rocket's second-ever flight, Blue Origin managed to ...
Is Hamas Rebuilding Its Military Presence in Lebanon?
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-11-19 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Israeli strike that targeted the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night has brought back into focus a question that had mostly stayed out of the spotlight in the conflict, at least since the November 27, 2024 ceasefire, which shifted attention primarily to Hezbollah: Is Hamas in the process of rebuilding ...
'Below the Clouds': Gianfranco Rosi’s Meditative Portrait of Naples
This is Beirut 2025-11-18 17:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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If the regular recipe for success in the modern entertainment industry or on social media is being loud, attention-seeking, and a prolific creator of "content," Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi has carved out a career doing the exact opposite. The work of the award-winning documentary producer is everything our contemporary culture is not: slow, ...
When French Luxury Meets India’s Deep Fashion Traditions
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 17:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The globe's biggest luxury brands have dreamt of India's vast consumer base for decades, but navigating the market has proven to be a complex task. French retailer Galeries Lafayette is the latest to try its luck, opening its first Indian store on Sunday: a sprawling five-floor outlet in Mumbai, the country's financial capital. Its ...
A New Epicenter Emerges in the Near East
Charles Chartouni 2025-11-17 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The situation in the Near East is still groping its way towards a new equilibrium. So far, it seems that the destruction of the proxy networks mounted by Iran’s Islamic regime has not yet eclipsed pursuit of political revanche all along the geopolitical spectrum extending through Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian Territories, Gaza, and their ...
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 ...
UN Rights Council Orders Probe of Abuses in Sudan's El-Fasher
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 14:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to seek to identify all those behind alleged atrocities in Sudan's El-Fasher to help ensure they are brought to justice. The United Nations' top rights body adopted a resolution ordering the UN's independent fact-finding mission on Sudan to urgently investigate violations of ...
Video Podcasts Become Next Streaming Battleground
This is Beirut 2025-11-14 11:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Big tech platforms, including TikTok and Netflix, are all looking to add video podcasts to their content, a rapidly growing format that attracts a young audience prized by advertisers and where YouTube dominates. Roman Wasenmüller, the head of podcasts at Spotify, said that the development "marks a new chapter for podcasting," as he announced a ...
Mayssa Karaa Returns with “Mata Betoud”: A Poetic Indie Arabic Love Song
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanese- American singer-songwriter Mayssa Karaa makes a stirring return this month with the release of her latest single and music video, “Mata Betoud” (“When Will You Return”). Blending Arabic lyricism with an indie alternative sound, the track captures the universal ache of longing and the fragile hope of reunion, ...
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 ...
The Clock Ticks on Lebanon's Empty Promises
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-11-25 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
One year on from Lebanon’s signing of the November 27, 2024 Cessation of Hostilities with Israel, Beirut’s agreement to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and disarm Hezbollah looks less like a commitment and more like theater. Lebanon has announced deadlines, staged symbolic troop deployments, and assured the world that Hezbollah’s ...
Mbappe's Real Madrid Aiming To End Barca Clasico Dominance
This is Beirut 2025-10-24 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Last season Barcelona romped to four Clasico victories over Real Madrid but led by in-form striker Kylian Mbappe, Los Blancos are aiming to redress the balance on Sunday in La Liga. Hansi Flick's side won a domestic treble, beating Madrid twice in La Liga and in the Copa del Rey and Spanish Super Cup finals, precipitating the end of Carlo ...
Takaichi, Trump Swap Praise for ‘New Golden Age’ of Ties
This is Beirut 2025-10-28 05:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Japan's new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished US leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a "golden age of ties" on his visit to Tokyo Tuesday, before inking a deal with Washington aimed at securing critical minerals. Takaichi, Japan's first woman prime minister, lauded Trump's involvement in mediating conflicts and will ...
Hamas to Return Hostage Body as Families Urge Pause to Gaza Truce
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 23:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas handed over the remains of a deceased hostage on Monday as the Palestinian group came under increasing pressure to return its remaining deceased captives as promised under the Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israeli forces had received a coffin containing what Hamas said was the sixteenth of 28 ...
UN probe Finds New Russian Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 21:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Russia has committed a crime against humanity in forcing people to flee Ukrainian-held territory through continual drone attacks targeting civilians, a United Nations-backed investigation said Monday. The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine also determined that Russia had committed war crimes in deporting and ...
German FM Urges 'Fair' Rare Earth, Chip Trade with China
This is Beirut 2025-10-27 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday called for "fair" trade with China in chips and rare earth minerals, amid heightened tensions between China and the European Union. Wadephul, who last week was forced to cancel a planned visit to China, said he plans to speak with Chinese representatives by phone "as soon as possible and ...
Hezbollah’s Excuses Are No Longer Credible
Kaline Antoun 2025-10-27 17:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Two months after the Lebanese government reaffirmed its exclusive authority over weapons, Hezbollah remains unwavering in its refusal to disarm. Since its inception, the pro-Iranian militia has justified its arsenal as a means of “resistance” and “defending Lebanon,” portraying its weapons as both a shield against Israel and a tool of ...
Netanyahu Asserts Israeli Control Over Gaza Security as Egypt Joins Hostage Recovery Effort
This is Beirut 2025-10-26 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived. The Egyptian convoy, captured on camera by AFP reporters in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip, included heavy ...
Block 8: Lebanon’s Energy Strategy Faces a Credibility Test
Mario Chartouni 2025-10-24 14:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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On Thursday at the Baabda Presidential Palace, Lebanon’s Council of Ministers took two decisive steps in the country’s energy policy by approving the oil exploration agreement for Block 8 and ratifying the maritime border with Cyprus. These decisions reflect the government’s determination to revive a strategic sector long stalled by ...
France to Charge Louvre Heist Suspects with Theft and Conspiracy
This is Beirut 2025-10-29 20:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two men arrested over the jewel heist at France's Louvre museum this month will be charged with theft and criminal conspiracy, the Paris prosecutor said Wednesday. Dozens of detectives have been on the trail of four thieves who used a cherry-picker truck and cutting gear to break into a first-floor gallery at the world-renowned museum, then fled ...
Chicago Marathon: Nassib Haddad’s Stride of Solidarity
Makram Haddad 2025-10-24 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Nassib Haddad Chicago Marathon
Last weekend, on the legendary asphalt of the Windy City, Nassib Haddad completed a race and sent a powerful message. The Lebanese runner crossed the finish line of the Chicago Marathon (42.195 km) in 3h44’22’’, turning his personal challenge into a relay of solidarity for Oum el Nour. From Rackets to Running Shoes A former tennis champion ...
Grade Tampering Scandal at the Lebanese University: Investigation Underway
This is Beirut 2025-10-23 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The investigation into the grade-tampering scandal at the Faculty of Law of the Lebanese University has reached a turning point. Earlier this month, the public institution was rocked by revelations that exam scores had been falsified in favor of several Kuwaiti students. According to information reported by the local TV channel MTV, and on the ...
Icing: When Love Goes into Freeze Mode
David Sahyoun 2025-10-22 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Icing Love Culture Relationships
The Anglicism icing, literally “putting on ice,” is not just a lexical novelty born of online platforms. It can also be understood as a technique of connection. It is neither a breakup nor a clear absence, but a controlled freezing. The icer keeps the other in reserve, present yet unavailable. The act consists of responding sporadically, ...