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Djokovic to Face Mensik With 100th Title Within Reach
This is Beirut 2025-03-29 16:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Novak Djokovic moved to within one win of his 100th career title on Friday, outclassing Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-3 to cruise into the final of the Miami Open, where he will play Czech teenager Jakub Mensik. Djokovic, who now has a 13-1 record against the Bulgarian, totally dominated the contest, which was over in 69 minutes. The Serb -- who at ...
Trump's New Tariffs: A Storm Brewing in Troubled Waters
Christiane Tager 2025-04-04 09:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Donald Trump European Union Banks Europe Turkey
President Donald Trump's recent decision to impose historic tariffs on 185 countries and territories, announced on Thursday, has reverberated across the global economy. The repercussions of these tariffs will be felt worldwide, with Arab countries being especially impacted. Among the hardest-hit nations are Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia, ...
Arsenal Draw at Everton to Edge Liverpool Closer to Premier League Title
This is Beirut 2025-04-05 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Football Premier League Arsenal Liverpool
Arsenal's small remaining hope of a first Premier League title for 21 years was further diminished after a 1-1 draw at Everton on Saturday. Leandro Trossard's opener for the Gunners was cancelled out by Iliman Ndiaye's penalty to leave Arsenal still 11 points behind Liverpool, who have a game in hand. The Reds now need just 11 points from their ...
Amendments to Banking Secrecy: The Danger of Retroactive Effect!
This is Beirut 2025-04-16 12:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The joint parliamentary committees are currently discussing the draft law amending banking secrecy. The version approved by the government is under review and modification in Parliament. This amendment — referred from the government to Parliament by Decree No. 103 — is the second in just three years. In 2022, the banking secrecy law ...
Lady Gaga, Missy Elliott Set Coachella on Fire
This is Beirut 2025-04-12 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The California desert was buzzing Friday as the premier music festival Coachella got underway, with Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott set to helm day one's main stage. Thousands of music fans traversed the sprawling grounds whipping paper fans and wielding parasols, as temperatures cracked the 100-degree Fahrenheit mark (37.8 degrees Celsius). That ...
Gold Hits an All-Time High, Dollar Declines
This is Beirut 2025-04-16 11:15 - Reading : less than a minute
A sign of lingering market anxiety, gold — the ultimate safe-haven asset — continues to attract investors fleeing riskier assets and climbed on Wednesday to a new all-time high of $3,275 per ounce. “High uncertainty, along with increased central bank buying and expectations of rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, continues to support ...
How Washington Dismantled Its Rivals and Reclaimed Global Leverage in 100 Days
Baker Halawi 2025-04-14 14:15 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
It took the United States less than one hundred days to begin redrawing the global strategic map—on its own terms. In just over three months, President Donald Trump’s returning administration—resurrected not through elections, but through political maneuvering and ideological momentum—reignited an assertive and ...
Harden Bags 39 as Clippers Edge Warriors to Clinch Play-Off Spot
This is Beirut 2025-04-14 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
James Harden scored 39 points as the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Golden State Warriors 124-119 in overtime to clinch the final playoff spot in a thrilling last day of the NBA regular season on Sunday. Harden's superb display in San Francisco helped the Clippers bag the fifth seed in the Western Conference and sets up a first-round ...
A New Approach to Teaching History: Will Lebanon’s Schools Embrace Multiple Narratives?
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-04-13 15:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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In Lebanon, the official history textbook ends with the withdrawal of French troops in 1946, following the country’s independence in 1943. Entire chapters of the country’s modern history remain unaddressed—most notably the 1975–1990 war, which left at least 150,000 dead and 17,000 missing. Even the terminology remains contested: Should it ...
April 13 (1): A Sudden Spark or the Culmination of a Crisis?
Michel Touma 2025-04-13 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Palestinians PLO civil war April 13 Kataeb Ain el Remmaneh
Ain el-Remmaneh, Sunday, April 13, 1975. A religious ceremony is held around 10 in the morning, to mark the inauguration of a Melkite church in this working-class suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of Lebanon’s main Christian parties. Several prominent figures are present, including President Camille Chamoun and Kataeb leader Pierre Gemayel. During ...
The Feast of Palms: ‘A Red (Blood) Carpet for Jesus’
Fady Noun 2025-04-13 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Jesus begins the final act of His earthly life with pure joy: the act of His Passion and His victory over death, the ultimate transformation of the human race. This pure joy is that of Palm Sunday, commemorated by the Church on the last Sunday of Lent. It is, in anticipation, the joy of Easter itself. Yet the shadow of the Cross subtly looms over ...
Trump's 10% Baseline Tariffs Likely to Stay, Says Top Advisor
This is Beirut 2025-04-10 17:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US President Donald Trump's 10 percent tariff for almost all countries except China will likely remain in place going forward, his top economic advisor Kevin Hassett said onThursday. A day earlier, Trump announced a 90-day pause on higher tariffs against all countries except China, reversing a policy that had roiled global stock markets and ...
Great Writers, Gentle Neuroses, Small Literary Miracles (2/2)
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-04-05 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Writers Neuroses Literature Culture
Literature loves outsiders. But what it cherishes most are organized outsiders—those who turn their strangeness into a narrative engine, their questionable lifestyles into bursts of staggering productivity. This second part focuses on writers who today might be considered, depending on one’s perspective, either misunderstood geniuses or ...
HTS: Repression Driving the Protests
Marie de La Roche Saint-André 2025-04-10 16:15 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Starting in February 2024, a wave of protests has swept through the cities of Idlib, Binnish and Sarmada, quickly spreading across much of Syria's northwestern province. The demonstrations are a direct response to the repressive governance of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), compounded by worsening economic conditions and a collapse in basic ...
‘Always Be Drunk:’ Remedy or Illusion in the Face of Existential Emptiness?
David Sahyoun 2025-04-09 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Drunkness Baudelaire Culture Emptiness
In The Spleen of Paris, Baudelaire advises the reader to “always be drunk. That’s it: the only question. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time, breaking your shoulders and bending you toward the earth, you must get drunk without ceasing. But on what? On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. But get drunk.” This work ...
When Trump Applies the Zelensky Treatment to Netanyahu
Mario Chartouni 2025-04-09 17:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington, initially expected to be a diplomatic summit reinforcing US-Israel ties, ultimately became a series of disappointments. According to several observers, including Israeli publication Haaretz, Netanyahu sought unwavering support from President Donald Trump for a hardline ...
Is a Trade Deficit Really That Terrifying?
Mario Chartouni 2025-04-07 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Economy free trade Commerce Deficit
If there is one thing on which the vast majority of serious economists agree, whether they lean politically left or right, it is that free trade and commerce are beneficial to a nation. Yet, this truth is being contested today. Trade deficits are generating a lot of ink in the media, and they are being used to justify counterproductive policies. ...
Music Industry Battles AI Deepfakes With Limited Progress
This is Beirut 2025-04-07 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
New York Music AI Donald Trump Art
The music industry is fighting on multiple fronts—through streaming platforms, in the courts, and with lawmakers—to prevent the looting and misuse of its content by generative artificial intelligence (AI). But the results so far remain underwhelming. 75,000. That’s the number of deepfakes that Sony Music says it has already requested to be ...
Political Fraud and the Bungled Peace
Charles Chartouni 2025-04-07 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Hezbollah USA
Monitoring the Lebanese political scene is quite disturbing since the hypothetical new political era seems to be bungling. The new incumbents, who came into power incidentally, were unlikely to be co-opted if it were not for the military and political upheaval induced by the Israeli destruction of the operational platforms weaved by the Iranian ...
The Reinvented Suit: Where Structure Meets Freedom
Béatrice Moreau 2025-04-06 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The suit is no longer what it used to be – and that’s a good thing. Long confined to the rigid dress codes of office wear, it now stands as the boldest expression of personal style. On the Spring-Summer 2025 catwalks, the structured blazer and tailored trousers transcend their original function to become a true statement of modern ...
The Journey for Peace Continues: Day Two of the Pope’s Visit
This is Beirut 2025-12-01 12:09 - Reading : less than a minute
Monday, December 1st: a historic day in Lebanon. The Pope continues his visit, and This is Beirut takes you to the heart of every moment. Throughout the day, our teams will be live from our studios and on the ground at every stop of his visit. Exclusive reports, analyses, and instant reactions will make you feel as though you were there.
Pope Visits Istanbul's Blue Mosque
This is Beirut 2025-11-29 13:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque early on Saturday on the third day of his trip to Turkey. It was the first time the American pope, elected in May as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, visited a Muslim place of worship since taking over from his late predecessor Francis. The Blue Mosque is one of Istanbul's main ...
The Healing Power of Tears: Nature’s Own Painkiller
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-07 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Crying. This universal gesture, so often confined to the private sphere or burdened with shame, is in fact one of the most powerful signals the human body can send. We cry in response to pain, loss, injustice or overwhelming emotion – not only to express what words cannot, but also, biologically, to find relief. Emotional tears – distinct ...
Verstappen Cruises to Victory, Cuts Chunk Out of F1 Lead
This is Beirut 2025-10-20 10:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Formula 1 Max Verstappen Lando Norris Charles Leclerc
Max Verstappen maintained the pressure on McLaren and cut another chunk out of Oscar Piastri's lead in this year's world championship on Sunday when he cruised to a commanding triumph at the United States Grand Prix. In sizzling conditions, Red Bull's four-time world champion led from pole position to the checkered flag to come home 7.959 seconds ...
Lebanon’s Women’s Volleyball Team Dominates West Asia — But at What Cost?
Hala Abdallah 2025-10-21 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Sports volleyball women's sports sports Lynn Zoauk Mira Adra
No pay. No training camps. Still, they dominated West Asia. Lebanon’s national team players Mira Adra and Lynn Zoauk speak out about the reality of women’s volleyball in Lebanon. It’s time everyone listened. Watch the full episode of This is Sports on This is Beirut.
Liverpool's Ekitike Returns to Face Floundering Frankfurt
This is Beirut 2025-10-21 15:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Liverpool Ekitike Champions League Frankfurt
When Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike returns to face his former club Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Wednesday, he will find a side that bears little resemblance to the one he left in July. Last year, Frankfurt qualified for the Champions League by finishing in the Bundesliga top four for the first time in their history. Their ...
Tennis - U14: Maria Hachache, Princess of Dubai
Makram Haddad 2025-10-21 11:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Tennis Dubai Maria Hachache Championship
At just 13 years old, Lebanese prodigy Maria Hachache won the Dubai International U14 Tournament, held at the American Academy in Dubai under the auspices of the Asian Confederation. Seeded No. 2, the Notre-Dame de Jamhour student played a solid tournament from start to finish, adding another title to her already impressive track record. With a ...
Basketball: Riyadi Gets Off to a Flying Start and Stifles Tadamon Hrajel
Makram Haddad 2025-10-21 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Basketball Riyadi Hrajel
The opening of the 2025-2026 championship offered a classic matchup: the predicted giant, Riyadi, the overwhelming favorite in the competition, faced an ambitious but realistic newcomer, Tadamon Hrajel, led by Ghassan Sarkis. For ten minutes, the game resembled a tug-of-war—27-24 in the first quarter—before the Beirut machine shifted into high ...
Dembele Set for PSG Return After Six Weeks Out
This is Beirut 2025-10-20 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ousmane Dembele Champions League Football
Ballon d'Or winner Ousmane Dembele is in line to make his return from injury for Paris Saint Germain against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, a source close to the club told AFP on Monday. The news will come as a welcome boost for PSG coach Luis Enrique, whose side has been struggling with injuries this season. Dembele, 28, has been out ...
Louvre Closes for Second Day as France Hunts Jewel Thieves
This is Beirut 2025-10-20 13:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron France Louvre Heist Jewelry
The Louvre was closed for a second day Monday as police hunted for thieves who broke in and stole priceless jewels in a spectacular daylight robbery. Officials said a team of 60 investigators was working on the theory that an organised crime group was behind the theft Sunday of nine pieces of jewellery, one of which -- a crown covered in ...