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Trump Ramps Up Conflict against Defiant Harvard
This is Beirut 2025-04-15 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States Harvard
President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite US universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard's tax-exempt status if the country's most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight. Harvard stands out for defying Trump, in contrast to several other universities and a string of powerful ...
Pope Leaves Faithful Guessing Over Easter Appearances
This is Beirut 2025-04-16 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Pope Francis may be on the mend, but as Easter nears, Catholic faithful are wondering how much of the celebrations the 88-year-old will be able to take part in after battling life-threatening pneumonia. The week of Easter is the most significant religious holiday in the Christian calendar and is packed with events, from the Way of the Cross ...
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 ...
EBRD Launches New SME Support Programs in Tripoli
This is Beirut 2025-04-16 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanon office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Tripoli and the North, and the Business Incubation Association in Tripoli (BIAT), held a session this week to present its latest consulting programs for small and medium-sized enterprises ...
Pope Briefly Meets US Vice President JD Vance
This is Beirut 2025-04-20 15:17 - Reading : less than a minute
Vatican Pope Francis JD Vance United States
Pope Francis had a brief private meeting with US Vice President JD Vance on Sunday, the Vatican said, on the last day of the Republican's visit to Rome. "The meeting, which lasted a few minutes, gave the opportunity to exchange greetings on Easter Sunday," wrote the Vatican in a brief statement, saying the encounter took place at the pope's ...
US-China: the Clash of the Titans
This is Beirut 2025-04-17 11:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
As the trade war between the United States and China escalates, here is a point-by-point comparison of the world's two biggest economic powers. Geographic, demographic giants With a surface area of more than nine million square kilometres (3.5 million square miles) each, the United States and China rank among the world's four biggest ...
President Aoun Files Appeals Over New Laws
This is Beirut 2025-04-17 11:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon Joseph Aoun Constitution Education Rent
President Joseph Aoun has filed two appeals Thursday before the Constitutional Council challenging recently enacted laws that came into effect automatically. The first appeal concerns the law on the liberalization of non-residential rent contracts, while the second targets amendments to legislation regulating the organization of private schools ...
Sharaa–Bin Laden: Reversed Paths!
Marc Saikali 2025-04-17 13:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Damascus HTS Ahmad al-Sharaa Syria Bachar el Assad
Let it be crystal clear: no Syrian, no Lebanese, no Palestinian… regrets the fall of the Khmer Rouge of the Levant. The Assad dynasty, guilty of crimes against humanity and large-scale massacres against its own people, as well as those of “brotherly” countries, has finally fallen after fourteen years of civil war. The problem is that today, ...
Joseph Aoun Files Two Appeals Before the Constitutional Council
This is Beirut 2025-04-17 16:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In a notable move, President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, submitted two appeals before the Constitutional Council. The first concerns Law No. 1, which came into force by default and relates to the rental of non-residential spaces. The second concerns Law No. 2, also effective by default, aimed at amending certain provisions regulating the ...
Illegally Privatized Coastline: End of Impunity or a Mere Political Posturing?
Liliane Mokbel 2025-04-17 18:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Economy Public domain coastline
After decades of laissez-faire, has the tide finally turned? Breaking with a long-standing tradition of complacency toward violations of the coastline, the government of Nawaf Salam has withdrawn three controversial decrees adopted under the Mikati administration. These decrees had legitimized the appropriation of over 140,000 square meters of ...
Trump Threatens to Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell
This is Beirut 2025-04-17 22:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump Federal Reserve Jerome Powell United States
US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that he could force out the head of the independent Federal Reserve, lashing out after Jerome Powell warned of tariffs-fueled inflation. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Powell would "leave if I ask him to." He added, "I'm not happy with him. I let him know it, and if I want him ...
Deadly US Strikes Hit Yemen Fuel Port Used by Huthis
This is Beirut 2025-04-18 05:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Yemen United States Conflict Strikes
US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 58 people, Huthi rebels said Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks of Washington's renewed campaign against the Iran-backed group. The strikes also injured more than 100 people, according to a Huthi-run television station that broadcast footage of large blazes lighting up the night sky. The US ...
Pope Wishes 'Happy Easter' to Faithful in Appearance at St Peter's Square
This is Beirut 2025-04-20 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Pope Francis appeared in front of thousands of Catholic faithful at St. Peter's Square on Sunday for Easter, despite the 88-year-old pontiff's frail health that has kept him from most Holy Week events. "Happy Easter," said the Argentine pontiff in a weak voice from his wheelchair at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, to the delight of tens of ...
The Wounds of Love on the Resurrected Body
Fady Noun 2025-04-20 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, leaving behind his boundless love and many mysteries yet to be understood. Unlike his resurrection, which happened with no witnesses, his ascension took place before the eyes of his stunned disciples. He defied gravity, and then a cloud took him from their sight—so much so that two angels had ...
A New Era of Peace? The Middle East at a Crossroads
This is Beirut 2025-03-12 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Middle East Iran Syria
For decades, the Middle East has been synonymous with conflict, instability, and geopolitical power struggles. From Lebanon to Iraq, Syria to Palestine, and beyond, the region has suffered the consequences of prolonged wars, economic turmoil, and external interventions. But today, a new chapter may be unfolding—one driven by decisive shifts in ...
Arrest of a Pro-Palestinian Activist From New York's Columbia Sparks Outrage
This is Beirut 2025-03-11 05:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States New York Columbia Palestine University
Protesters in New York and rights groups expressed outrage Monday over the arrest of a leader of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, as President Donald Trump vowed further crackdowns. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate and one of the most prominent faces of the university's high-profile protests, was arrested by US ...
Gaza Rescuers Say 46 killed as UN Slams US-Backed Aid System
This is Beirut 2025-06-24 18:32 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed another 46 people waiting for aid in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday as rights groups and UN agencies slammed the US-backed food distribution system. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 21 people were killed and around 150 wounded by Israeli fire near an aid point in ...
Celine Haidar: A Dream Shattered, Life in Suspense
Makram Haddad 2024-11-21 23:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Football Tragedy Celine Haidar
On November 16, while walking through the Chiyah neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Celine Haidar was struck on the head by debris from an Israeli airstrike. The young woman, who suffered a severe head trauma, was rushed to a hospital in Hadath before being transferred to Saint George's Hospital, where a first surgery was successfully ...
Basel to Vote on Hosting Eurovision 2025 in November
This is Beirut 2024-10-28 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The canton of Basel-City, in northern Switzerland, will need to organize a referendum in November on hosting Eurovision 2025, as opponents submitted enough signatures on Saturday. Swiss singer Nemo, a non-binary activist, won Eurovision 2024, granting Switzerland the right to host the world’s largest song contest next May. In August, ...
Alida Torbay’s Introspective Odyssey at MACAM: "Caminante"
This is Beirut 2024-10-31 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Alida Torbay, a multidisciplinary Lebanese-Venezuelan artist, presents her exhibition Caminante at MACAM (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum), following its debut at the Instituto Cervantes in Beirut. Inspired by Antonio Machado’s poem Caminante, Alida Torbay celebrates the individual’s journey through life, embodying the idea that “the path ...
‘JML NYC 02-23’: Exploring Humanity Through the Lens of Joseph Michael Lopez
Marie-Christine Tayah 2024-11-12 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The images of photographer JML, who recently signed his book JML NYC 02-23 at the Grand Palais in Paris during the Paris Photo exhibition, capture the timeless essence of human connections, filling empty spaces with meaning and seizing fleeting beauty. With his Leica, Joseph Michael Lopez frames moments that evoke memories and inspire the ...
AI Brings St. Peter's Basilica to Life with Digital Twin
This is Beirut 2024-11-12 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Vatican Rome AI Basilica Heritage
The public will soon be able to access every detail of St. Peter’s Basilica through a virtual portal, thanks to 400,000 images of the monument analyzed by artificial intelligence, according to a project presented Monday at the Vatican. Starting December 1, visitors to the basilica's official website will discover a digital reconstruction of its ...
Comedian Conan O'Brien to Host 97th Academy Awards
This is Beirut 2024-11-17 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The 97th Academy Awards will be held on March 2, 2025, at the iconic Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. O'Brien, an Emmy-winning comedian, will preside over the ceremony during a pivotal moment for the Oscars as they work to retain and grow their viewership. The most recent Oscars attracted nearly 20 million viewers, a much-needed ratings boost for the ...
Philippe Aractingi Awarded for 'Liban, les Secrets du Royaume de Byblos'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-11-19 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanese cinema takes center stage once again with the remarkable achievement of Philippe Aractingi, a French-Lebanese director and producer, who recently won the prestigious Grand Jury Prize at the 24th Bidassoa Archaeological Film Festival (FICAB) in Spain. His film, Liban, les secrets du royaume de Byblos, filmed over two years in 2022 and ...
SpaceX Fails to Catch its Starship Megarocket, as Donald Trump watches on
This is Beirut 2024-11-20 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Space SpaceX
SpaceX flew its latest test flight of its Starship megarocket on Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle firsthand in the latest sign of their ever closer ties. But the Republican leader was deprived of the chance to see the descending first stage caught in the launch tower's "chopstick" arms, an ...
René Magritte’s 'L'empire des lumières' Breaks $121 Million Auction Record
Madeleine Cadoux 2024-11-21 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
New York Magritte Painting Auction
René Magritte’s Empire of Light has set a world auction record for the Belgian surrealist artist, selling for $121.16 million at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday. This record-breaking sale highlights the resilience of the high-end art market. Created in 1954, the painting had been estimated at $95 million, surpassing Magritte’s previous ...
K-Dramas Offer Therapeutic Benefits, Experts Suggest
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
If you've ever binge-watched an entire season of a K-drama like Squid Game or Crash Landing On You, one Korean-American expert has good news: it's likely improved your mental health. High production values, top-notch acting and attractive stars have helped propel South Korean TV shows to the top of global viewership charts, but therapist ...
'Endurance': In the Footsteps of a Legendary Shipwreck
This is Beirut 2024-10-17 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A century after the sinking of the Endurance, the famous ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, a documentary titled Endurance reveals the “breathtaking” preservation conditions of the wreck, discovered two years ago at a depth of 3,000 meters in the Weddell Sea, off Antarctica. Produced by National Geographic, Endurance showcases ...
Caravaggio's Rare Portrait of Pope Urban VIII Unveiled in Rome
This is Beirut 2024-11-23 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A rare and previously unseen painting by the Italian master Caravaggio is being displayed to the public for the first time in Rome. The Portrait of Maffeo Barberini, which depicts the future Pope Urban VIII, will be part of a new exhibition running from November 23 to February 23 at the Barberini Palace. The portrait, part of a private collection, ...
'Cilama' by Hady Zaccak: A Journey Through the Forgotten Cinemas of Tripoli
Marie-Christine Tayah 2024-11-24 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The screening of Cilama, directed by Hady Zaccak in 2024, at the IMA in Paris, as part of Focus Tripoli: Tripoli, Arab Cultural Capital 2024, offered an evocative glimpse into Tripoli’s cinematic past. The documentary, both poetic and deeply reflective, serves as an album that chronicles the collective memory of cinema at the heart of this ...