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Memoirs of Juan Carlos Ignite Fierce Debate Over Franco
This is Beirut 2025-11-08 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Juan Carlos Spain King Memoirs Culture Art
Exiled former Spanish King Juan Carlos's memoirs have sparked renewed debate in Spain over his legacy and ties to the late dictator General Francisco Franco. Its publication coincides with the 50th anniversary of Franco's death on November 20, 1975 and the commemoration of Juan Carlos's proclamation as king two days later. In the book, the ...
'We're Already Living in Science Fiction': The Neurotech Revolution
This is Beirut 2025-11-12 09:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA Health Beurotechnology Ethics
From translating thoughts into words to allowing paralyzed people to walk, the field of neuro technology has been quietly surging ahead, raising hopes of medical breakthroughs -- and profound ethical concerns. Some observers even think that neuro tech could end up being as revolutionary as the far more hyped rise of artificial intelligence ...
Iranian Actor Homayoun Ershadi, Star of 'Taste of Cherry', Dies Following Cancer Struggle
This is Beirut 2025-11-11 12:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Film Obituary Homayoun Ershadi Iran Culture
Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi died at 78 on Tuesday after a battle with cancer, state news agency IRNA reported. Ershadi rose to international fame with his breakout role in the late Abbas Kiarostami's Palme d'Or-winning Taste of Cherry (1997), which tells the story of a hopeless man looking for someone to bury him after his planned ...
Saudi Women Keep Ancient Dance Alive Behind Closed Doors
This is Beirut 2025-11-10 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Music Oriental Dance Saudi Arabia Culture Art
In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practice belly dancing, an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret. Despite their enthusiasm, none of them would give their real name or show their faces on camera, underlining the stigma and cultural prejudices surrounding the ancient dance. In Arab ...
Jazz Correia: The Gilded Cage
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Jazz Correia JLC Family Instagram
In JLC Family, Jazz’s home becomes the set of a real-life series. Her children take part in the performance, and her relationship unfolds in front of the camera, episode by episode. What viewers see is carefully edited and designed for Snapchat, Instagram, or YouTube. Gradually, the line between reality and fiction fades. Emotions become raw ...
“Glamorize”: When Crime Becomes a Show
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-11-09 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Since the spectacular Louvre heist on October 19, the internet has been ablaze. On social media, heist videos multiply, memes turn stolen jewels into fashion accessories, and the alleged thieves of France’s Crown Treasure have become fictional characters. The case reveals a broader cultural phenomenon: the glamorization of crime, where ...
Cristiano Ronaldo: The Obsession with Perfection
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-08 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cristiano Ronaldo Football Real Madrid Portugal Portrait
In the world of football, Cristiano Ronaldo stands in a league of his own. He has reached the top not just through talent and hard work but by embodying the idea of the complete athlete, where every detail matters. With him, nothing is left to chance. The daily training, the sculpted body, and the carefully measured diet all reflect a mindset ...
“Doudou on the Streets”: The Baffling Profile of a Louvre Thief
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Abdoulaye N., 39, the key suspect in the October 19 theft of the Crown Jewels at the Louvre, does not fit the typical profile of a high-stakes burglar. Already known to police for minor but aggravated thefts, among them a 2014 jewelry store robbery in Barbès that earned him a three-year prison sentence, he reportedly has 15 entries on his ...
Prince Andrew Faces New Pressure Following Virginia Giuffre’s Memoirs
This is Beirut 2025-10-21 20:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Virginia Giuffre Prince Andrew Jeffrey Epstein
The posthumous memoirs of American Virginia Giuffre, the main accuser of Prince Andrew in the Epstein case, went on sale Tuesday, increasing pressure on the disgraced brother of King Charles. In Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, recounts in detail being exploited as a sex slave by the late financier and sex offender ...
When Samir Hammoud Sacrifices Depositors to Please the IMF
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 15:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Negotiation skills refer to the capacities and methods used by an individual when engaging in discussions with another party in order to reach an agreement that satisfies both sides, without sacrificing the rights or interests of either. Key negotiation skills include planning, managing expectations, persuasion, problem-solving, decision-making, ...
'Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year by Collins Dictionary
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
"Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, the word refers to "an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code ...
Benching: Keeping the Other on Hold
David Sahyoun 2025-10-29 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benching Psychoanalysis Culture Relationships
In the new digital dictionary, we are learning to decode, “to bench” means keeping someone on the sidelines, like a player who is sent neither off the field nor fully into the game, but kept warmed up, available, and waiting. Benching is not the radical severing of connection seen in ghosting, nor the deliberate freezing of icing. It ...
One Week After the Louvre Heist: What Do We Know?
This is Beirut 2025-10-28 14:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Louvre France Heist Investigation
The men, both in their thirties and from Seine-Saint-Denis, were detained over the weekend as part of the investigation into the high-profile robbery. Police sources say the two are already known to law enforcement for previous thefts and are suspected of taking part in the team that carried out the bold operation at the museum. The suspects were ...
'Disarmament:' The Challenge of Peace
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-10-26 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam United Nations Donald Trump Hamas Hezbollah Arms
In this final week of October, the Disarmament Week set by the United Nations resonates with new urgency. On one front, Washington has issued an ultimatum to Hamas to disarm under Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. On another, the Lebanese government is under US pressure to disarm Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy in the region. Tehran remains ...
King Charles, Pope Leo Pray Together in Historic First
This is Beirut 2025-10-23 16:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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King Charles III, the head of the Church of England, became the first British monarch Thursday to pray publicly with a pope in a Vatican service led by Leo XIV. The ceremony in the Sistine Chapel, broadcast live by the Vatican's official news service, came during a state visit by the 76-year-old monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla. It was the ...
Trump Slaps ‘Tremendous’ Sanctions on Russian Oil for Ukraine War
This is Beirut 2025-10-22 23:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies on Wednesday, complaining that his talks with Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war "don't go anywhere." The European Union also unveiled a fresh wave of sanctions to pressure Russia to end its relentless, three-and-a-half-year invasion of its ...
The Controversy and Potential Behind Jaden Smith’s Rise at Christian Louboutin
This is Beirut 2025-09-18 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Fashion Luxury Louboutin Celebrity France Culture
French fashion icon Christian Louboutin's decision to name Will Smith's son Jaden as his chief menswear designer is a bold choice that took the industry by surprise, and stirred up fresh allegations of "nepo-baby" favoritism. When not following in the footsteps of his famous father into acting and rap music, 27-year-old Smith ...
Nottingham Forest Sack Head Coach Nuno After Rift with Owner
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Head coach Nuno Espirito Santo was sacked by Nottingham Forest early on Tuesday, becoming the first English Premier League manager this season to lose his job. "The club thanks Nuno for his contribution during a very successful era," said a club statement released just after midnight. The Portuguese had been in charge for 21 months at the City ...
Carbon Capture Promoters Turn Up in Numbers at COP30
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 09:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Climate Cop30 UN Brazil Energy
Companies and groups backing carbon-capture technology, which critics slam as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels, have deployed more than 500 participants to the COP30 climate talks, according to a list compiled by an NGO and shared exclusively with AFP. The list, assembled by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), names oil ...
Swipe, Like, Ghost: The Exhausting Supermarket of Online Dating
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-08 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Dating Apps Online Dating Swipe Like Emotional Marketplace
Since the rise of Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble, dating has taken on the feel of digital shopping. You pick a profile, reject another, then repeat. One swipe, and the illusion of endless choice starts all over again. What was meant to make love easier ends up fraying nerves. Love becomes a product and the connection, a secondary goal. This phenomenon ...
Syria Evacuates Bedouin from Druze-Majority Sweida as Ceasefire Holds
This is Beirut 2025-07-21 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syrian authorities evacuated Bedouin families from the Druze-majority city of Sweida on Monday, after a ceasefire in the southern province halted a week of sectarian bloodshed that a monitor said killed more than 1,260 people. The violence, which followed massacres of Alawites in March and clashes involving the Druze in April and May, has shaken ...
Cross Our Heart
Fady Noun 2025-07-20 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations Damascus Hezbollah
Lebanon faces an existential threat, warns Tom Barrack. He suggests the country could be absorbed into one of those large regional blocs the United States dreams of building for energy, commercial or security reasons. The diplomat likely had a slip of the tongue. He should have read the letter addressed in 1989 by Pope John Paul II to all Catholic ...
Venice Film Festival: Italy Kicks Off with Sorrentino’s 'La Grazia'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-19 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Paolo Sorrentino La Grazia Venice Film Festival Cinema Italy Movie
The acclaimed director will launch the festival on August 27, 2025, with this highly anticipated work, fifteen years after leaving a mark with Il Divo or La Grande Bellezza. Early commentators have described La Grazia as a “love letter to Italy, to cinema and to powerful women.” The world premiere will take place at the historic Palazzo del ...
When the Body Speaks: The Truth Behind Self-Harm
David Sahyoun 2025-07-16 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Self-Harm Psychoanalysis Body Scars Sufferings
Once treated as a fringe concern in psychiatry, self-harm has become far more visible in recent decades. Clinical and epidemiological studies agree that it primarily affects adolescents and young adults, with a marked prevalence among girls and young women. It appears in hospitals, schools and prisons, but also across digital spaces. On platforms ...
Joaquin Phoenix Battles Pandemic Chaos in “Eddington” Western
This is Beirut 2025-07-11 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Joaquin Phoenix Film LA Eddington Culture
Joaquin Phoenix struggles to bring order to a crumbling America in Eddington, a star-powered neo-western that acts as a scathing reflection of today’s United States. Premiering Wednesday in France and Friday in the U.S., the film is the latest from indie favorite Ari Aster—known for genre hits like Hereditary and Midsommar. After Beau Is ...
Diddy Faces Sentencing After Shocking Split Jury Verdict
This is Beirut 2025-07-09 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sean "Diddy" Combs will be sentenced on October 3 for his conviction on prostitution-related charges, following a split verdict that saw him acquitted for crimes that carried more serious punishment. The music mogul was found not guilty of sweeping racketeering and sex trafficking charges after the marathon trial in which he was accused of ...
Hebron's Short-Lived Tribal Emirate Dream
Mario Chartouni 2025-07-08 15:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Middle East West Bank Palestinians Tribes
What if the future of Middle East peace lay not in a one-state or two-state solution, but in a network of tribal emirates forging direct ties with Israel? That is the provocative vision reportedly proposed by a group of influential Palestinian clan leaders from the Hebron region in the West Bank—chief among them the powerful Sheikh Wadih ...
Ziad Is Gone, the Drama Isn’t
Salam El Zaatari 2025-07-31 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Ziad Rahbani Music Fairouz Culture
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 ...
Lebanon’s Beaches: The Great Slimming Down
Marc Saikali 2025-07-06 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
When we usually talk about beaches in Lebanon, it’s only to bemoan their polluted state. But this summer, something has changed. People aren’t scanning the waves for floating plastic bags anymore. It’s not the heat (still sweltering), the entrance fees (still outrageous), or the music volume (still unbearable). No, the real shift is in the ...
'Hug Therapy': How Pope Leo is Trying to Unify Vatican
This is Beirut 2025-07-04 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV Vatican Catholic Church
Pope Leo XIV heads off on holiday on Sunday, having spent his first two months as Catholic leader rebuilding unity and bolstering tradition after his predecessor's unorthodox papacy. "Prudent", "methodical" and "listening" are some of the words used by Vatican insiders who spoke to AFP to describe the approach of the first American pope, who took ...