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Lebanese Nationals Barred From Entering Syria, Investigation Underway
This is Beirut 2025-01-03 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several Lebanese nationals were denied entry into Syria at the Masnaa border crossing on Thursday, taken aback by strict conditions newly imposed by Syrian authorities. A senior official from the Lebanese General Security (SG) stated to the local channel MTV on Friday that the department had not been informed of these new measures. According to ...
Lebanon: A State of Insecurity? Where Exactly?
Marc Saikali 2025-02-05 15:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump Hezbollah Morgan Ortagus government
The ostrich policy: look away and pretend that security is under control. For the past few weeks, in a scattered yet synchronized manner, acts of delinquency have been multiplying in certain neighborhoods of Beirut. Of course, there’s no proof that these incidents are coordinated. However, in Lebanon, there’s always a “but!” The profile ...
Transforming Trash into Music: A Paraguayan Orchestra's Journey
This is Beirut 2025-02-10 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two years ago, Lucas Cantero knew nothing about music. This 16-year-old Paraguayan recently performed in the Lancaster House in London, playing his drum made entirely of recycled waste. "I never imagined music could come from pieces of wood and old X-rays," said Lucas, a member of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. This group hails from Cateura, ...
Lebanese Predictions for 2025: Uncertainty and Shy Hope
Marilyne Jallad 2024-12-31 18:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Lebanese Army New Year
As we wander through the bustling streets of Basta al-Tahta, lined with small shops, it is easy to forget that this neighborhood paid a heavy price before the ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27. Yet, the harsh reality quickly reasserts itself. Illegal Weapons: A Persistent Wound That Dims Hope With graying hair and ...
Hezbollah Is the Antithesis of Shia Islam
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-02-25 15:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A video went viral of a Lebanese woman standing at the Beirut Airport and berating other passengers, shouting: “We sacrificed our blood, this is our country, and whoever does not like it should emigrate.” She then held a picture of late Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, pumped her first in the air, and shouted a few slogans. ...
Kremlin says Zelensky Needs to be Forced to Make Peace
This is Beirut 2025-03-03 12:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Kremlin on Monday accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting peace, following a clash last week between the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump. "He doesn't want peace. Someone should make him want peace. If the Europeans do it, all kudos to them," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He described Friday's angry ...
Zelensky and European Allies Cement Cooperation after Trump Row
This is Beirut 2025-03-03 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he would work with Europe to set terms for a possible peace deal to present to the United States, after allies gathered in London pledged to spend more on security and assemble a coalition to defend any truce in Ukraine. The weekend crisis talks, which brought together 18 allies, came at a ...
Top Washington Officials Suggest Zelensky May Have to Step Down
This is Beirut 2025-03-02 18:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Top Washington officials suggested Sunday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky might have to step down if a peace deal is to be reached, underscoring President Donald Trump's stunning shift in approach to the war with Russia. "We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians, and end this war," National Security ...
Trump-Zelensky: When "Diplomacy" Takes on a Whole New Meaning
Marc Saikali 2025-02-28 22:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Seven minutes that will leave a lasting mark on diplomatic history. Live, before the world’s cameras, Donald Trump tore into his guest, Volodymyr Zelensky. "You don’t have the cards in your hands." "Without our support, your fate would have been sealed in two weeks." "You’re playing at World War III." Faced with an utterly unfazed American ...
Gene Hackman, the Quiet Giant of American Cinema
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-02-28 12:50 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
USA Gene Hackman Cinema Hollywood
Hackman passed away on February 26, 2025, in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Despite his advanced age, the disturbing circumstances of his death have deeply shaken Hollywood. His wife, 63-year-old classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were also found dead. The details surrounding their discovery are especially unsettling. The bodies ...
British Pop Sensation Charli XCX Wins Brit Award for Best Songwriter of the Year
This is Beirut 2025-02-27 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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British pop sensation and brat summer icon Charli XCX won the Brit Award for Best Songwriter of the Year on Wednesday, putting her in pole position to scoop up the most honors in a weekend ceremony. The 32-year-old also has five nominations going into Saturday's awards — the highest of any artist — including the nod for the coveted Artist of ...
Nicolas Hénin on the ISIS Defendants’ Denial: “A disturbing dual role”
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-02-25 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Middle East ISIS Nicolas Hénin Mehdi Nemmouche trial
The trial opened on Monday, February 17, 2025. Nicolas Hénin, a former hostage of Daesh, faced his jailer Mehdi Nemmouche in a French court. Nemmouche, already convicted for the attack on the Jewish Museum of Brussels, is now on trial for the kidnapping and detention of 27 Westerners in Syria between 2013 and 2014. Among them, four French ...
Grenade Blast in French Bar Wounds 12
This is Beirut 2025-02-13 09:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Twelve people were wounded when a grenade exploded in a bar in France's southeastern city of Grenoble on Wednesday, officials said. "Someone came in and threw a grenade, apparently without saying a word, and ran away," prosecutor Francois Touret-de-Courcy told journalists at the scene, where emergency workers had cordoned off the area. Two ...
The Lost Son of Eric Clapton, Eternal Muse of 'Tears in Heaven'
This is Beirut 2025-02-22 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Song Story Eric Clapton Culture
Fate can strike with unfathomable cruelty. For Eric Clapton, that blow came on March 20, 1991, when the life of his son Conor, just four years old, was cut short under tragic and improbable circumstances. From this heartbreaking loss was born Tears in Heaven, a song that became the universal hymn of grief and resilience. On that fateful spring ...
Adrian Quesada’s Oscar Journey: Music, Representation, and Hope
This is Beirut 2025-02-20 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
As a child, Adrian Quesada dreamed of success at the MTV Video Music Awards, but now, he is on an even bigger stage—with an Oscar nomination. The American musician with Mexican roots hopes the presence at the Academy Awards of someone from the Texas border town of Laredo will help serve as an inspiration for other people from minority ...
Loss as the “Little Death” of the Psyche: An Anatomy of the Narcissistic Wound
David Sahyoun 2025-02-19 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Narcissism Loosing Culture Psychoanalysis
Loss, in its psychic dimension, can reveal a fundamental fragility within our being. Whether personal or collective, it does more than disrupt our balance—it can jeopardize our very sense of identity. In these critical moments, to lose becomes synonymous with losing oneself, exposing a profound narcissistic vulnerability. In fact, excessive ...
You, and Only You, Against the Whole World…
Marc Saikali 2025-02-17 15:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Army Achrafieh Hezbollah
What will happen on February 18, the deadline for the truce extension? Probably not much. The Israelis won’t have fully withdrawn, Hezbollah will call for “resistance” and the international community will exert pressure to avoid an unexpected escalation. Yelling and threatening mobs will likely rush into the neighborhoods that, not so long ...
'Yesterday' by The Beatles, the Hit Born from a Mysterious Dream
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-02-14 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Some songs leave an everlasting mark on the history of music. Melodies that, from the very first notes, transport us to another world. “Yesterday,” an ageless masterpiece by The Beatles, is one of them. But did you know that this legendary ballad was born from a dream and almost never came to light? Let’s revisit the story of this mythical ...
Shakira Kicks Off Her First World Tour in Seven Years
This is Beirut 2025-02-13 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Latin music icon Shakira kicked off her first world tour in seven years on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, performing songs from her latest album, Las mujeres ya no lloran (Women Don’t Cry Anymore), which recently earned her a Grammy Award. The Colombian singer, known for her eclectic style, set the Nilton Santos Olympic Stadium on fire, ...
Facing Egg Shortage, Americans Bring Chickens Home to Roost
This is Beirut 2025-02-13 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A Houston poultry supply company is selling chickens like there is no tomorrow, as sky-high prices for eggs prompt some Americans to produce their own at home. A recent US outbreak of bird flu since early 2024 is exacting a heavy toll on poultry farms. More than 21 million egg-laying hens have been "depopulated" this year so far, after 13.2 ...
Vegas Tesla blast Suspect's Motive Unknown as Death Ruled Suicide
This is Beirut 2025-01-03 11:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The decorated US special forces soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head before the blast, authorities said Thursday, adding that his motivation was still "unknown." Matthew Livelsberger, 37, a member of the elite Green Berets, took his own life in the rented ...
The Media Glossary: Merry Christmas
This is Beirut 2024-12-25 09:10 - Reading : less than a minute
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Why do we say “Merry” more often than “Happy” when wishing someone a joyful holiday? What is the difference between the two words? How did “merry” emerge?
Architect Ricardo Scofidio, Visionary of NYC’s High Line, Dies at 89
This is Beirut 2025-03-07 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Architecture Culture Art Heritage
Ricardo Scofidio, an architect in New York City whose firm designed some of the city's most iconic structures, such as the High Line elevated park in Manhattan, died on Thursday at age 89, according to US media. Together with his wife, Elizabeth Diller, Scofidio founded the design firm now called Diller Scofidio + Renfro, known for its conceptual ...
Al-Qaeda Adviser Urges Release of Israeli Hostages in Gaza
This is Beirut 2024-10-19 16:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An adviser to Al-Qaeda's likely current leader is calling for Hamas to release its Israeli hostages held in Gaza, according to an American jihadist monitoring organisation, SITE. The online declaration was made Friday by Mustafa Hamid, also known as Abu Walid al-Masri, who is father-in-law to Saif al-Adel, the man widely believed to now head ...
John Williams Unveiled: Spielberg’s Tribute to a Legendary Composer
This is Beirut 2024-10-27 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
He composed “the soundtrack of our lives” with scores for Star Wars, E.T., and Indiana Jones, yet his own story remains lesser-known: John Williams, 92, opens up in a documentary produced by his “soul brother,” Steven Spielberg. Premiering Wednesday at the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles, before its November 1st release on ...
Sean Baker: Hope Revives on the Margins for American Cinema
This is Beirut 2024-10-26 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Director Sean Baker embodies the renewal of American independent filmmaking on the fringes of the cinema industry, ever since the Cannes Film Festival awarded him a Palme d’Or, a kind of life-affirming triumph. "I will never film in a studio, but always on real locations," declared this devotee of cinéma vérité in Cannes, who crafts films ...
Are we taking bets? Lebanon will pay again?
Marc Saikali 2024-10-26 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli air force struck some twenty military bases in several areas of Iran. Teheran in particular. Around a hundred fighter planes, all returned to their bases. As “promised”, nuclear installations and hydrocarbon production zones were not hit. It is now clear that nobody wants the conflict to spread to the whole region. The Americans ...
France Welcomes Russian Soldiers Deserting in Ukraine
This is Beirut 2024-10-21 10:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Europe European Union Ukraine USA Vladimir Putin
Six Russian soldiers who fled the fighting in Ukraine have found refuge in France and hope to receive asylum, in a landmark case of Russian deserters being welcomed in an EU country as a group. The deserters, all of whom had reached France via Kazakhstan, told AFP in a series of interviews they hoped their actions would encourage other Russian ...
Isabelle Huppert, Timeless Actress, Honored with the 2024 Lumière Award
Béatrice Moreau 2024-10-20 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The 2024 Lumière Award ceremony, held on Friday, October 18 at Lyon’s Amphitheater 3000, gathered a host of film industry stars who came to celebrate Isabelle Huppert. Alfonso Cuarón, Claire Denis, Noémie Merlant, and James Franco were among the distinguished guests. The emotion was palpable when singer Julien Clerc took to the stage to ...
Hasbaya: A Haven for Thousands of Displaced People
Katia Kahil 2024-10-19 19:10 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanese Red Cross South Lebanon United Nations USA
On September 23, the situation in Southern Lebanon, marked by artillery exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah since October 8, 2023, took a significant turn after an escalation declared by Tel Aviv. An urgent phone call from Israeli authorities sent shockwaves through Marjayoun and neighboring villages (Ebel Saqi, Khiam, Kfarchouba, Shebaa, ...