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Musical Satirist Tom Lehrer, Droll Prophet of Doom, Dead at 97

This is Beirut 2025-07-28 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Tom Lehrer Satirist Music Culture Art Heritage

Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed humorist and pianist whose satirical songs made him one of America's favorite prophets of doom before he retreated to academia, has died, US media reported Sunday. He was 97. The singer-songwriter died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his friend David Herder said, according to The New York ...

WE4LEAD Drives Real Change for Gender Equality at Universities

Sana Richa Choucair 2025-07-27 18:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

Lebanese University WE4LEAD Gender equality Erasmus

Two Years After Its Launch in 2023, Where Does the Euro-Mediterranean Project Women’s Empowerment for Leadership and Equity in Higher Education Institutions (WE4LEAD) Stand? The project’s mission is to increase the representation of women in key academic leadership roles by transforming institutional practices and fostering a genuine culture ...

Caminos Lebanon: When Pilgrimage Routes Drive Economic Revival

Christiane Tager 2025-07-25 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Lebanon tourism economy

The idea is bold: stimulate the economy by banking on pilgrimages. That is the goal of Caminos Lebanon, a sustainable religious tourism initiative backed by the Association for Pilgrimages in Lebanon (APL) and led by expert Nour Farra Haddad. The ambition is to turn Lebanon into a key destination for faith-based travel. But this goes far beyond ...

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 ...

Versailles Invades Wall Street with Poisons, Drag, and Opera

This is Beirut 2025-07-23 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Versailles NYC Spectacle Theater Culture Art

Acrobatics, fortune tellers, opulent gowns and palace intrigue: the New York debut of the Versailles Royal Opera Orchestra was a performance befitting the era it recalls. Monday's immersive show: The Affair of the Poisons centered on France's 17th-century period of excess and seediness that its creator, Andrew Ousley, told AFP has parallels to ...

'The Shed at Dulwich': The Hoax That Topped TripAdvisor

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-22 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

London Restaurant TripAdvisor The Shed at Dulwich Hoax

No menu. No chef. No real kitchen. Just a shed, a mobile phone, and a lot of nerve. In just a few months, The Shed at Dulwich became London’s top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor, outranking thousands of Michelin-starred, gourmet, and trendy venues. Except it never actually existed. This brilliant hoax was the brainchild of a young British ...

Slop: The Digital Waste Flooding Our Feeds

Sana Richa Choucair 2025-07-20 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) surges, a new term is gaining traction: slop. No longer just a word for literal mud or lukewarm food, in digital lingo it now refers to a rising wave of unwanted, AI-generated content, vacantly produced, algorithmically amplified, and clogging up social media. From Messy Mud to Messy Media In ...

Cosmetic Counterfeits: Lebanon Grapples with the Surge of Fake Beauty Products (2/3)

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-15 21:16 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Lebanon Cosmetic Counterfeits Beauty Products Skin Care Health

On Instagram, just a few clicks on reseller accounts or sponsored stories plunge you into a sleek, alluring world where top brands — Lancôme, Estée Lauder, Guerlain, Dior, La Roche-Posay — are sold at slashed prices. Descriptions sound convincing: “imported from the US,” “end-of-line stock before ...

Rasamny Denies Tripoli Exit Rumors Amid Sweida Tensions

This is Beirut 2025-07-18 14:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Lebanon Fayez Rasamny Najib Mikati Tripoli Port Sweida

Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny denied on Friday rumors claiming he cut short his visit to Tripoli due to security threats linked to recent clashes in Syria’s Sweida province.  Rasamny said his visit was completed as scheduled and focused on launching development projects at the city’s port. “My visit was not ...

Snoop Dogg Joins Swansea City as Co-Owner

This is Beirut 2025-07-18 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Music Snoop Dog Culture Art Rap

Snoop Dogg has become co-owner of Championship side Swansea City in an unlikely alliance between the world of rap and football, the Welsh club has announced. The 53-year-old American star joins former Real Madrid stalwart and Croatia World Cup finalist Luka Modrić in the club's ownership structure. Snoop Dogg made a surprise appearance on the ...

Lebanon Launches National Campaign to Combat Water Shortage

This is Beirut 2025-07-18 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Water Drought Campaign Rainfall Crisis

In response to an alarming drop in rainfall and a looming summer water crisis, Lebanon’s Ministry of Energy and Water has launched a national campaign on Friday to encourage water conservation and raise public awareness. The initiative seeks to rally citizens around smarter water usage as the country faces one of its driest years in recent ...

Israel Strikes Near Syrian Army HQ: State TV

This is Beirut 2025-07-16 19:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Damascus Benjamin Netanyahu Syria

An Israeli strike on Wednesday hit near the Syrian army and defense ministry headquarters in Damascus, the state-run Alekhbariya channel reported on Telegram, after Israel's military said it had struck there. AFP correspondents heard a loud explosion echoing throughout much of the capital shortly after a first air strike had targeted the same ...

Astronomers Observe Birth of a Solar System for First Time

This is Beirut 2025-07-16 18:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Astronomy Solar System Space

Astronomers said Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system. The new planetary system is forming around the baby star HOPS-315, which resembles our own Sun in its youth, 1,300 light years from Earth in the ...

Khamenei Says Israel War Meant to 'Overthrow System' in Iran

This is Beirut 2025-07-16 14:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Khamenei Ali Khamenei

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Israel's attacks during last month's 12-day war were intended to weaken the Islamic republic's system and spark unrest to topple it. "The calculation and plan of the aggressors was to weaken the system by targeting certain figures and sensitive centres in ...

Syrian Forces Accused of 'Executions' in Druze Area as Israel Launches Strikes

This is Beirut 2025-07-15 23:16 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Damascus Syria Sweida

Syrian authorities were accused on Tuesday of carrying out summary executions of civilians in the predominantly Druze province of Sweida, where Israel said it had launched strikes against government forces in defense of the religious minority. Damascus deployed troops to the area after clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes killed ...

Ethiopia Inaugurates Africa's Biggest Dam

This is Beirut 2025-09-09 12:51 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Ethiopia Nil Egypt Dam

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a "great achievement for all black people" despite years of diplomatic rancour over the dam with downstream neighbour Egypt. For Ethiopia, the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), straddling a tributary of the River ...

Cloudflare Resolves Outage That Disrupted Parts of the Internet

This is Beirut 2025-11-18 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Cloudflare Technology Cloud

Services from Cloudflare, a software company that supports thousands of websites, including X, Spotify, and OpenAI, on Tuesday reported a crash in one of its software systems, according to a report in the New York Times. Cloudflare, which provides tools to secure and manage internet traffic for websites, reported earlier in the day that it was ...

Amazon Says Cutting 14,000 Jobs Globally

This is Beirut 2025-10-28 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Amazon AI Jobs economy

US online retail giant Amazon said Tuesday that it is eliminating 14,000 jobs to streamline its operations as it invests in artificial intelligence, without saying where the cuts will come. Amazon said in a statement the reductions were a "continuation" of its efforts "to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and ...

Inside Gaza’s Technocratic Committee: What’s at Stake

Mario Chartouni 2025-10-27 16:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Palestine Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Fatah Hamas

Following a meeting in Cairo on Friday, the main Palestinian factions, including Hamas, announced that they had agreed to entrust the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent technocrats. According to a statement posted on Hamas’s website, the committee will oversee day-to-day affairs and ...

Trump Says He Won't Meet with Canada 'For a While,'

This is Beirut 2025-10-27 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Donald Trump United States Canada Economy

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would not meet with Canada "for a while," as Prime Minister Mark Carney offered an olive branch to resume trade talks. Trump announced he would be hiking tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 percent and terminated all trade talks following what he called a "fake" anti-tariff ad campaign ...

Trump Says Increasing Tariffs on Canada by 10 Percent

This is Beirut 2025-10-26 05:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Canada United States Tariff Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was hiking tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 percent, in the latest fallout over a Canadian anti-tariff ad that featured late US leader Ronald Reagan. The announcement came two days after Trump said he had terminated all trade talks with Canada over what he called the "fake" ad ...

Les Mains de Mamie Redefine Haute Couture

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-25 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Les Mains de Mamie Fashion Culture Grandmas Haute Couture

At first glance, Catherine’s flat in Saint-Étienne looks like any other French retiree’s home. Balls of yarn are scattered on the armchair, patterns are scribbled on scraps of paper, an old measuring tape lies nearby, and the television murmurs in the background. But for the past three years, her hands have been knitting for more than just ...

Violent Airstrikes Rock Beqaa and Hermel

This is Beirut 2025-10-23 13:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Airstrikes

A series of Israeli airstrikes shook the Beqaa and Hermel regions on Thursday. Loud explosions were heard in the areas of Janta, Shmistar and the heights of Hermel. The Israeli army announced that it carried out a series of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in the Beqaa and northern Lebanon. According to a statement from the Israeli army, ...

Smart Cartilage: The New Frontier Against Arthritis?

Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-10-29 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Arthritis Science Cartilage Smart

This morning, in the calm corridors of a hospital, Myriam, 56, hesitates before putting her foot on the ground. Arthritis, with its constant flare-ups and stiffness, waits behind every movement. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people live in fear of a single misstep, caught between brief moments of relief and the anxiety of the next ...

Icing: When Love Goes into Freeze Mode

David Sahyoun 2025-10-22 18:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Icing Love Culture Relationships

The Anglicism icing, literally “putting on ice,” is not just a lexical novelty born of online platforms. It can also be understood as a technique of connection. It is neither a breakup nor a clear absence, but a controlled freezing. The icer keeps the other in reserve, present yet unavailable. The act consists of responding sporadically, ...

Senate Panel Probes Hezbollah Links to Latin American Drug Trade

This is Beirut 2025-10-22 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Hezbollah Middle East Venezuela drugs trafficking

The US Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control convened a hearing on Tuesday to examine suspected connections between Hezbollah and Latin American drug trafficking networks, as lawmakers warned of the group’s expanding footprint in the Western Hemisphere. Chaired by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), the bipartisan session focused on ...