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Sayyid Qutb: From the Muslim Brotherhood to Global Influence
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-11-18 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Born in 1906 into a devout family in a village of Upper Egypt, he studied educational sciences, much like Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder. Alongside his career as a teacher and civil servant in the Ministry of Education, Sayyid Qutb gained recognition as a literary figure, moving within Egypt’s intellectual circles, including ...
Zelensky Trip to Turkey Aims to 'Re-Engage' US in Peace Efforts
This is Beirut 2025-11-18 13:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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President Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Turkey on Wednesday seeking to revive the United States' involvement in diplomatic efforts to end the Russian invasion, a Ukrainian official told AFP. Zelensky said he wanted to reinvigorate frozen peace talks, which have faltered after several rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul this year failed ...
Ukraine Ministers Resign over Major Corruption Scandals
This is Beirut 2025-11-12 19:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ukraine's energy and justice ministers resigned on Wednesday over their alleged involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal in the country's energy sector. Investigators alleged a key ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky orchestrated a $100 million kickback scheme to siphon off funds, triggering public anger at a time of widespread power ...
The Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood: Hassan al-Banna and the Birth of Political Islam
Malo Pinatel 2025-11-12 14:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Ismailia, 1928. In this city on the Suez Canal under British control, Hassan al-Banna, the 22-year-old schoolteacher and son of an imam, gathered six workers around a single pledge: to restore the greatness of Islam. From this modest circle would emerge a movement that would leave a profound mark on the Middle East throughout the twentieth ...
Jounieh Turns Pink: 10,000 Runners Take Over the Women’s Race
Makram Haddad 2025-11-24 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Beirut Marathon Jounieh
Under the patronage of First Lady Nehmat Aoun, represented by Minister of Youth and Sports Nora Bayrakdarian, Jounieh came alive on Sunday for the Women’s Race organized by the Beirut Marathon Association. Ten thousand participants transformed the city’s historic streets into a ribbon of color, energy, and celebration for the 10th edition of ...
Syrians Furious at Major Hike in Electricity Prices
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 13:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In his workshop near the Syrian capital, Ghassan Aama is at a loss following a recent decision to massively hike electricity prices, even as much of the country continues to face extensive outages. Last month, the energy ministry raised prices by at least 60 times compared to the previous tariff, sending shockwaves through a population already ...
Kazakhstan Joins the Abraham Accords: A Symbolic Move with Strategic Implications
Mario Chartouni 2025-11-07 14:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic framework launched in 2020 to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab and Muslim states. The announcement came after a phone call between Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart ...
Boukra Nour: Healing the Future, Training Adults, Rebuilding Hope
Makram Haddad 2025-11-07 14:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Lea Jabre Boukra Nour NGO
A modest room, chairs in a circle, guided breathing. At the end of the workshop, a middle-school girl scribbles “I feel lighter” on a sticky note. An ordinary scene in a pilot center of Boukra Nour, an NGO recently founded by Lea Jabre, Georges Debbas, and Me Nada Abdelsater. Their challenge: help children and adolescents reweave emotional ...
Hungary's Orban to Meet Trump in Face of Russia Oil Sanctions
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 11:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban is due to meet Donald Trump in Washington on Friday for the first time since his ally was re-elected US president, as he seeks a waiver on American sanctions on Russian oil. The United States hit Russia's two biggest oil producers with sanctions last month, the first such measures ...
Trump Hails Central Asia's 'Unbelievable Potential' at Summit
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump hosted all five Central Asian leaders 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 Kremlin's Ukraine ...
Kazakhstan to Join Abraham Accords as Trump Pushes Mideast Peace
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 08:56 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Kazakhstan Abraham Accords
Kazakhstan said Thursday it will join the Abraham Accords between Israel and mainly Muslim nations, in a largely symbolic move aimed at boosting US President Donald Trump's push for Middle East peace. The central Asian republic has had diplomatic ties with Israel for decades, unlike the four Arab states that normalized relations with Israel ...
Closed Again: Jeita Grotto, a Victim of a Failing State
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-11-06 16:50 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Jeita Grotto is temporarily closed. This was confirmed Thursday morning by Tourism Minister Laura Lahoud. Lebanon’s iconic karstic wonder is shutting its doors for the second time in less than a year. The first closure came after the death of Mapas-Lebanon CEO Nabil Haddad in November 2024, leaving the site without an official manager for eight ...
Can You Really Die of a Broken Heart?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-06 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Broken Heart Science Takotsubo Cardiology
Losing a loved one, experiencing a breakup, or facing shocking news can make anyone feel, in moments of devastation, that their heart might literally burst. The saying “to die of a broken heart” once seemed little more than sentimental folklore. Yet modern medicine has shown otherwise. Emotional pain can, in rare cases, strike the heart with ...
America’s Longest Shutdown: A Nation in Uncertainty
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-11-07 21:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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As the United States enters its sixth week without an approved budget, the paralysis of the federal government has spread far beyond Washington’s corridors of power. Flights are canceled, public services remain closed, and federal employees go unpaid. The crisis is testing the resilience of the world’s largest economy and raising urgent ...
Is the Mamdani Plan the Fastest Way to Ruin New York?
Mario Chartouni 2025-11-05 17:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor marks a historic moment. It is the first time a member of the Democratic Socialists of America has taken charge of the nation’s largest city. But behind the wave of activist enthusiasm lies an economic agenda that risks backfiring. According to the Cato Institute, Mamdani’s plan is not ...
Marathon: Ehrabi Nael, the Fourth Lebanese to Join the Six Majors Club
Makram Haddad 2025-11-05 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Beirut Marathon Ehrabi Nael Sports
The finish line in Central Park carried a sense of accomplishment. With his 3:29:20 performance in New York, Nael—the Beirut Marathon’s race director—sealed his sixth Major: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York—six temples of road running where marathon legends are made. He now joins the very select circle of Lebanese ...
Cabinet Set to Discuss Arms Control, Electoral Law Amendments
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 11:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Cabinet is set to convene Thursday afternoon at the Presidential Palace in Baabda. The session is expected to focus on two major issues: the nationwide arms control plan and proposed amendments to the electoral law. Arms control plan The first agenda item will involve a presentation by the Lebanese Armed Forces on the progress of the ...
Where Things Stand On China-US Trade After Trump and Xi Talk
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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China and the United States have lowered the temperature in their spiraling trade war, bringing a precarious end to months of back-and-forth measures between the economic and technological powerhouses. The détente—reached at last week's meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in South Korea—marks a new phase in a fierce ...
Zohran Mamdani Elected Mayor of New York
This is Beirut 2025-11-05 08:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump New York Republicans Zohran Mamdani Democrats Elections
New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor Tuesday as U.S. voters took part in several key local and state elections ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mamdani’s victory came after a highly watched campaign in which he faced strong criticism from business elites and conservative media commentators. The Democratic Party also secured ...
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 ...
Spanish Star Rosalía Unveils 'Lux', a Spiritual and Multilingual New Album
This is Beirut 2025-11-07 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Spanish singer Rosalía released her anticipated fourth album, Lux, on Friday, a sweeping, spiritual work that marks a departure from her previous work. After the acclaim for her breakthrough album, El Mal Querer, which fused flamenco with R&B rhythms, and her genre-defying follow-up, Motomami, Rosalía offers an orchestral meditation on faith ...
Pension Reform Stalled: 13 Decrees Blocking Lebanon’s Social Protection Law
Liliane Mokbel 2025-11-08 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Thirteen. That is the number of implementing decrees still pending to activate the pension and social protection law passed in 2023. Without them, the long-awaited reform remains on hold. The new system was meant to gradually replace the decades-old end-of-service indemnity scheme. So far, only one decree has been partially addressed, the one ...
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood: Between Ideological Lineage and National Adaptation
Malo Pinatel 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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On April 23, 2025, Jordan’s Ministry of Interior formally banned Brotherhood-related activities in Jordan, citing an alleged plot threatening national security, orchestrated by a group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The decision came amid heightened regional tensions. In the west of the kingdom, the Israel-Hamas war was raging, and public ...
Neural Nostalgia: The Calming Power of the Music of Our Youth
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-12 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Neural Nostalgia Music Science Feel Good
Tuning into an FM station, an old hit slips in between news flashes, and suddenly everything comes rushing back: the taste of an adolescent summer, the warmth of a first love, the carefree lightness of youth. Why do these songs, sometimes simple or even innocent, have such a powerful effect on our mood? In a world where nostalgia seeps into ...
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, ...
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Emirates: The Anti–Muslim Brotherhood Crusade
Malo Pinatel 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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Among the major ideological fault lines in the Arab world, few are as decisive as the one between conservative authoritarian and self-proclaimed “secular” regimes and the Muslim Brotherhood. Today, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates form the core of a determined anti-Islamist front, seeking to neutralize the Brotherhood’s ...
Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, and Jihadists: Shared Influences, Divergent Trajectories
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
In Western media and public discourse, the terms Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, and Jihadists are often conflated—blurred together in a way that obscures their distinct origins, ideologies, and modes of action. While these movements share certain historical roots, they represent fundamentally different trajectories. To better understand their ...
From Cairo to the World: The Global Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Malo Pinatel 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Founded in 1928 in Ismailia by Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood swiftly expanded beyond Egypt’s borders to become a major transnational force across the Arab and Muslim world. Its reach was enabled by exile networks, grassroots activism, and a doctrine flexible enough to adapt to diverse political and cultural contexts. From its ...
London: The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Rear Base”?
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-11-12 10:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The United Kingdom has long served as a haven for many members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, often described as the movement’s “rear base in Europe.” The Brotherhood established itself in the UK during the 1960s. Most members settled in London and came from various national branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the ...
Rise of an AI Country Star Shakes the Music Charts
This is Beirut 2025-11-12 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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An artist suspected of being virtual, with a voice generated by Artificial Intelligence, has reached the top of one of the most popular country-music download charts in the United States, marking a first. Walk My Walk, by Breaking Rust, an act with no known identity, is now the most downloaded country track, according to the data published on ...