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Forceful Pleas at UN For Two-State Solution for Israel, Palestinians
This is Beirut 2025-07-29 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam United Nations Donald Trump Emmanuel Macron Palestine
There is no alternative to a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians, France told a UN conference co-chaired with Saudi Arabia Monday that was boycotted by Israel and branded a stunt by Washington. "Only a political, two-state solution will help respond to the legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace ...
What if Superman’s Power Was Humanity After All?
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-07-25 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Superman Cinema Movie Culture Art David Corenswet
The new Superman movie, featuring new actors, is all over the place. David Corenswet stars as Clark Kent/Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion and Isabela Merced. Ranking number one internationally, the film attracts crowds eager to see their favorite hero’s new adventures. The plot ...
New Cryptocurrency May Be Aiding Russia to Dodge Sanctions
This is Beirut 2025-07-25 13:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Russia Sanctions EU Crypto Stablecoin
Russia could be turning to a new cryptocurrency called A7A5 to allow money to flow in and out of the country and avoid Western sanctions, experts have told AFP. Multiple rounds of international sanctions have been imposed on Moscow since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine seeking to ramp up economic pressure to halt the war. But the launch of ...
Zelensky Says Russian Negotiators Have 'Begun to Discuss' Possible Putin Meeting
This is Beirut 2025-07-25 12:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ukraine Russia Volodymyr Zelensky Vladimir Putin
Negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv discussed the possibility of a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their talks in Istanbul this week, Zelensky said in comments released Friday. Ukraine has been pushing for a meeting between the two leaders and has expressed hope that Donald Trump, ...
No Rental Car in Sight! Lebanon’s Cars Are Fully Booked
Christiane Tager 2025-07-25 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon is in rental saturation mode. Bad luck for latecomers: this summer, finding a rental car in Lebanon is nothing short of a miracle. With the rush of returning expats, agencies are fully booked and every set of keys is already in someone’s hand. Between traffic jams, soaring prices and empty apps, Lebanon is on the move. There are about ...
Unseen and Unspoken: The Enigma of Pregnancy Denial
David Sahyoun 2025-07-24 22:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Women Children Motherhood Mothers
Some births occur without anticipation, as if the child arrived out of time. Pregnancy denial is neither deception nor performance. It is a psychic reality that takes shape without words, a pregnancy the body conceals and the mind excludes. This clinical enigma raises profound questions about motherhood, the female body, generational transmission ...
Omar Jamaleddine Responds After Suspension Threats
Hala Abdallah 2025-07-24 14:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Omar Jamaleddine Basket-ball
Basketball player Omar Jamaleddine announced his return to the national team a day after facing sharp criticism and disciplinary threats from Lebanese Basketball Federation President Akram Halabi. The controversy began earlier this week when Halabi, speaking in an exclusive interview on This is Sports, accused Jamaleddine of deliberately avoiding ...
Thomas Barrack: When Diplomacy Moves in Circles and Lebanon Follows
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah Joseph Aoun Saudi Arabia Tom Barrack
Listening to Thomas Barrack, one might think Lebanon is close to redemption or on the edge of a cliff, perhaps both at once. For months now, the American special envoy has issued statements that are sometimes hopeful, sometimes threatening, often confusing, and always repetitive. With every tweet and announcement, the same message comes through: ...
Lebanon’s Hidden Underwater Mysteries
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
An entire city, named Saidoun, emerged from the depths: monumental walls, sacred chambers, freshwater wells, marble slabs and massive stone blocks dating back to around 1370 BCE, nearly 4,000 years ago. To this day, this excavation remains one of the most significant breakthroughs in the underwater exploration of southern Lebanon. Yet, since then, ...
Madame Tussauds Honors Taylor Swift With Record 13 Wax Figures
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Museum Taylor Swift Wax Statues Madame Tussauds Britain Culture
US pop megastar Taylor Swift will be honored with 13 waxworks of her at Madame Tussauds venues around the globe, the museum said on Wednesday. In honor of Swift's lucky number, 13 of the waxwork museum's 22 branches will each receive a statue of the Love Story and Blank Space singer, in what it called the "most ambitious project" of its 250-year ...
What are All These Microplastics Doing to Our Brains?
This is Beirut 2025-08-01 09:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics have been detected accumulating in human brains, but there is not yet enough evidence to say whether this is doing us harm, experts have said. These mostly invisible pieces of plastic have been found everywhere, from the top of mountains to the bottom of oceans, in the air we breathe and the food we ...
Second Seed Fritz Ends Canadian Hopes at ATP Toronto Masters
This is Beirut 2025-08-02 13:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Taylor Fritz ended Canadian hopes at the ATP Toronto Masters on Friday as he crushed Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the fourth round. The American second seed needed just 77 minutes to dispatch the the 37th-ranked local and book a meeting with Jiri Lehecka, a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 winner over France's Arthur Fils. Fritz is aiming to at ...
Five Years Later... Finding the Words with Lina Khoury
Yara Germany 2025-08-02 12:30 - Reading : less than a minute
explosion blast beirut survivor August 4 2020
On August 4, 2020, at 6:07 PM, Lina Khoury’s life was blown apart. Despite being a mental health professional, she stayed silent for years. A tribute by This is Beirut to those who still carry August 4 in their bodies, their hearts and their silence.
Beirut Port: The Dormant Strategic Hub
Liliane Mokbel 2025-08-02 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Levant’s maritime landscape is rapidly shifting. Since the easing of Western sanctions on Syria, investors have flocked to its shores. Emirati logistics giant DP World has launched an $800 million investment plan to modernize Tartus port. Meanwhile, CMA CGM is investing $262 million in Lattakia, and China is expanding its footprint in ...
Norris on Top as McLaren Dominate Opening Hungary Practice
This is Beirut 2025-08-01 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Formula One F1 Max Verstappen Lando Norris
Lando Norris topped the times ahead of series leader and team-mate Oscar Piastri as McLaren ruled Friday's opening practice for this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix. Norris, who is 16 points adrift of Piastri in the drivers' world championship, clocked a best lap in one minute and 16.052 seconds to outpace the Australian by 0.019 seconds on a dry ...
Honkytonk Kenya: Country Music’s Unlikely African Capital
This is Beirut 2025-08-01 11:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kenya Country Music Art Festival Culture Music
The party is in Kenya, but the vibe is distinctly Americana: a sea of cowboy hats and boots with a soundtrack of whisky-soaked tales about heartbreak and good ol' boys. Kenya has become the unlikely home of a growing country music scene, possibly the biggest in Africa, as testified by the thousands line-dancing in a field in the capital Nairobi at ...
Underwater Serenade: The Surprising Songs of Leopard Seals
This is Beirut 2025-08-01 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in performances that can last up to 13 hours, scientists said Thursday. The Australian-led team of researchers compared the complexity of the songs composed by the big blubbery mammals to those of other animals, as well as human musicians ...
Syria Forms Committee to Investigate Violence in Druze Heartland
This is Beirut 2025-07-31 22:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Sweida Syria Druze Commmittee
Syria's justice ministry announced on Thursday the formation of a committee to investigate deadly violence in the southern Druze-majority province of Sweida. The week-long clashes which began on July 13 killed more than 1,400 people, many of them Druze civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor. In a decree issued ...
Exploring and Excavating Underwater Heritage
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Before any underwater excavation begins, one fundamental question must be answered: Should the findings be brought to the surface? “In some cases – particularly when dealing with a submerged city – preserving the site’s integrity means leaving everything untouched,” explains marine biology expert Marcos Hado. “But when valuable ...
Trump's Envoy in Israel as Gaza Criticism Mounts
This is Beirut 2025-07-31 14:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Steve Witkoff
US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff held talks in Israel on Thursday on ways to end the crisis in Gaza, where nearly 22 months of grinding war and dire shortages of food have drawn mounting international criticism. Witkoff, who has been involved in months of stalled negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal, met Prime ...
Germany Says Israel 'Increasingly in The Minority' on Palestinian Issue
This is Beirut 2025-07-31 14:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Germany Conflict
Germany's foreign minister said Thursday that Israel was increasingly isolated diplomatically over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the push by some countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Johann Wadephul said in a statement before heading to Israel that the recent UN conference on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
From Sweida to Hasbaya: The Druze Soul Under Strain
Katia Kahil 2025-07-31 13:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
While Syria’s Sweida province remains on edge following July’s deadly clashes, the reverberations are deeply felt across the border in Hasbaya. In this part of southern Lebanon—as elsewhere in the Druze world—identity transcends borders. The people of Hasbaya have lived this tragedy as their own, with Druze Sheikh al-Aql, Sami Abi ...
Pestalotiopsis microspora: The Fungus That Eats Plastic
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-31 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Fungus Pestalotiopsis microspora Plastic Amazon
In 2011, during a scientific expedition in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Yale students stumbled upon an unusual fungus. Hidden within the tissues of certain plants in Yasuní National Park, Pestalotiopsis microspora revealed a unique ability: it can break down one of the most common types of plastic, the polyurethane, even in completely ...
Trump's MAGA Base Defies Conservative Pro-Israel Doctrine
This is Beirut 2025-07-30 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas
Unconditional support for Israel has long been an entry requirement in US Republican politics, but that orthodoxy is being challenged by Donald Trump's populist base -- where invocations of the "special relationship" are falling on deaf ears. Images of starvation and suffering in Gaza have given new impetus to a debate that has been simmering in ...
Who Owns a Sunken Treasure?
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
As advances in underwater exploration technologies open new horizons for archaeological research, the legal status of submerged heritage in Lebanese waters is becoming increasingly pressing. Who holds rightful ownership of an ancient shipwreck discovered off the coast of Byblos? What legal framework governs treasures found within Lebanon’s ...
1957: A Crash, Gold and Shadows of Mystery
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-29 14:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Beirut International Airport Kuwait Lebanese Army United Kingdom
This is the story of the Curtiss C-46 operated by Air Liban, which crashed off the coast of Beirut in 1957 with around 30 passengers on board. According to witness accounts and expert testimony, the aircraft was transporting a shipment of gold estimated between 400 and 450 kilograms, bound for Kuwait. While the crash itself raises questions, what ...
UN Report Calls for Urgent, Coordinated Recovery Plan to Avert Lebanon’s Collapse
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon United Nations Cesao Development Cooperation
The United Nations issued a stark warning Thursday, urging immediate and coordinated efforts to steer Lebanon away from a deepening crisis. In a newly released joint report, UN agencies outlined the devastating impact of the ongoing conflict and proposed key recovery pathways to help the country regain its footing. The report, titled “The ...
The Druze of Syria: A Minority Seeking Stability in the Post-Assad Transition
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-07-24 13:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus Druze Minority
Since July 13, deadly clashes in Syria’s southern province of Sweida have left more than 1,300 people dead, including at least 630 local residents, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The violence erupted after the abduction of a merchant from the Druze community, triggering a wave of bloodshed that underscores the region’s ...
Eight OPEC+ Countries Raise Production by 547,000 Bpd
This is Beirut 2025-08-03 17:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia, Russia and six key members of the OPEC+ alliance said Sunday they will increase production by 547,000 barrels a day in a move that analysts say aims to regain market share amid resilient crude prices. Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman, along with the Saudis and Russians, together nicknamed the ...
Dr. Al-Sharaa, Mr. Al-Jolani: The Metamorphosis Illusion
Marc Saikali 2025-07-17 08:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Soueida Al-Jolani Ahmad el-Chareh Hezbollah
For two days, the Israeli Army has bombed Syrian militias now acting as auxiliaries to the regular army. On Wednesday, Israeli jets struck the outskirts of Syria’s military headquarters in Damascus—a clear political and military message: ongoing attacks on Syria’s Druze minority will not be tolerated. Yet on the ground, confusion reigns. ...