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Caught Between Missiles and Militias: Iraq Struggles Under Regional Strain
Mario Chartouni 2025-06-18 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam UN Security Council Hezbollah Middle East Tehran
As Israeli airstrikes and Iranian missile launches intensify across the Middle East, Iraq finds itself trapped in a precarious position amid a mounting diplomatic and military storm. Still fragile after decades of conflict, the country’s geographic and strategic location leaves it exposed to the escalating rivalry between two powerful regional ...
US to Screen Social Media of Foreign Students for Anti-American Content
This is Beirut 2025-06-19 09:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
USA Donald Trump Visa Student Social media
Foreigners seeking to study in the United States will be required to make public their social media profiles to allow screening for anti-American content under new State Department guidelines released Wednesday. The State Department had temporarily paused issuing visas for foreign students at the end of May while it came up with the new social ...
If Iran's Khamenei Falls, What Would Replace Him?
This is Beirut 2025-06-19 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel increasingly appears eager to oust the clerical leadership that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is taking a gamble given the Iranian opposition is divided and there is no guarantee new rulers would be any less hardline, analysts say. By striking targets other than nuclear or ballistic facilities, such as Iran's ...
Syria Says Assad Cousin Involved in Drug Trade Arrested in Border Ambush
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 15:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria Drug Trafficking Wassim al-Assad Bashar al-Assad
Syrian authorities arrested Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ouster. Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia in December with only a handful of confidants, abandoning senior officials and security officers, some of whom ...
Belarus frees jailed opposition leader after appeal from US
This is Beirut 2025-06-21 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Belarus freed top opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky and over a dozen other political prisoners on Saturday following an appeal from the White House, Minsk said, a sign of warming ties between Washington and Belarus-ally Moscow. The release came just hours after US special envoy Keith Kellogg met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in ...
The Palace of Versailles Brings Statues to Life With AI Conversations
This is Beirut 2025-06-24 13:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Heritage Palace of Versaille AI Statues France Culture
At the Palace of Versailles, visitors now converse with statues instead of listening to traditional audio guides, thanks to an innovation made possible by two artificial intelligence (AI) partners. The château unveiled the project to the press on Monday evening: a joint effort between American AI systems developer OpenAI and French start-up Ask ...
Box Office Snapshot: 'Regretting You' Edges Out 'Black Phone 2' at North American Box Office
This is Beirut 2025-11-03 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Film Box Office Entertainment Canada Culture
Paramount's Regretting You, the latest film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel, finished first place in a lackluster Halloween weekend at the North American box office, industry estimates showed Sunday. Directed by Josh Boone, the romantic drama tells the story of a mother (Allison Williams) and teenage daughter (McKenna Grace) navigating life ...
Louvre Heist a 'Deafening Wake-up Call' for Museum Security
This is Beirut 2025-11-06 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Last month's spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France's crown jewels, was a "deafening wake-up call" for museum security, the head of France's highest audit institution said Thursday. Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a "woefully inadequate pace", Pierre Moscovici told a press ...
The Alawites of Syria, Caught in the Death Corridor
Nidal Ayoub 2025-03-11 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Finally, my phone rings. From the depths of the device come harsh, lifeless words—like the bodies piled in the morgues of Jableh, choking the air on the roads of Latakia, or swallowed by yawning pits. Barely are these words spoken, barely written, when a distant, frantic finger on the other end of the line, in Syria, erases them. I ...
Teachers’ Law Reissue or a Return to Street Protests
Maurice Matta 2025-05-23 10:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Teachers Constitutional Council Joseph Aoun Nawaf Salam Najib Mikati
On April 17, President Joseph Aoun submitted two appeals to the Constitutional Council. The first challenges Law No. 1, which automatically came into effect and regulates leases of non-residential properties. The second targets Law No. 2, also automatically enacted, which amends specific provisions related to private school faculty and school ...
Property Owners Slam Institutional Chaos Over Commercial Lease Law
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon commercial lease rent law Property rights Landlords
In a statement issued following the Constitutional Council's decision on May 20, 2025, the Syndicate of Property Owners of Leased Buildings responded to the ruling concerning the new law on commercial leases. The syndicate clarified that the Constitutional Council did not rule on the content of the law, which aimed to liberalize long-standing ...
Cannes 2025: ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ Revisits the Julian Assange Story
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 16:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Cannes 2025 Julien Assange Eugene Jarecki Documentary France Culture
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has recovered well after his release from jail last year, his wife told AFP ahead of the premiere of a documentary Wednesday that includes never-seen-before footage of the whistleblower. Assange is at the Cannes Festival to promote the documentary by American filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who said he was trying to ...
Cannes After 8 PM: Where Cinema Is Born
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-21 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cinema France Culture Cannes 2025
It’s easy to assume that Cannes winds down after the last screening, that the gowns are packed away and everything fades into the next day’s headlines. But that’s a misconception of the true rhythm of the Croisette. After 8 PM, a different atmosphere takes over. A cinema without screens, yet one where everything can begin. This parallel ...
US to Appoint Thomas Barrack as Special Envoy for Syria
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Thomas Barrack Syria
The United States is set to appoint President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor and current US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barrack, as a special envoy for Syria, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter and a Turkish diplomat. This decision follows Trump’s landmark announcement last week that US sanctions on Syria will be ...
UN Says Around 90 Aid Trucks 'Dispatched' Into Gaza
This is Beirut 2025-05-22 09:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United Nations Palestine Humanitarian
The UN said Wednesday it had "dispatched" around 90 trucks carrying aid into Gaza, as international pressure intensified over Israel's renewed offensive and blockade of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. The first aid distribution in Gaza since early March came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was open to a "temporary ...
Turkey to Increase Energy Exports to Syria, Says Minister
This is Beirut 2025-05-22 17:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said Thursday in Damascus that his country would ramp up energy exports to Syria to help boost electricity supplies as its neighbour seeks to recover after years of war. "We want to triple our current electricity exports to meet Syria's electricity needs, and realise an electricity export of ...
The Trump Administration Withdraws Harvard University's Right to Host International Students
This is Beirut 2025-05-22 22:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump's administration on Thursday revoked Harvard's right to enroll foreign students -- more than a quarter of its annual enrollment -- in a major escalation of the president's fight with one of the world's most storied universities. Trump is furious at Harvard -- which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners -- for rejecting his demand that ...
Epilepsy in Lebanon: Journey to the Heart of the Crisis
Makram Haddad 2025-05-23 09:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Epilepsy Epsilon Karine Abou Khaled Sami Richa Ronald Moussa
There is epilepsy, its seizures, its fears, its stigmas. And then there is Lebanon, its shortages, its hospitals on their knees, its families wandering in pharmaceutical disarray. This Friday, May 23, on the campus of the Faculty of Medicine of USJ, the Epsilon association will hold its tenth Scientific Day, with one motto: “Improve the quality ...
Palestinian Factions Close to Iran Forced Out of Syria Amid Power Shift
This is Beirut 2025-05-23 18:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The leaders of pro-Iran Palestinian factions close to former ruler Bashar al-Assad have left Syria under pressure from the new authorities, Palestinian sources said Friday, a key US demand for lifting sanctions. A pro-Iran Palestinian faction leader who left Syria after Assad's December overthrow said on condition of anonymity that "most of the ...
Arak, Wine, and Resilience: Syria’s Toast to the World
Christiane Tager 2025-05-20 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syria, long recognized as the birthplace of distillation and fermentation, is a land where arak and wine embody the essence of the terroir, the resilience of its people, and the vibrancy of its local communities. The Alawite and Christian populations play a vital role in sustaining this heritage, actively shaping the production of both arak and ...
$257.8 Million for Water!
This is Beirut 2025-05-23 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Minister of Finance Yassine Jaber, in the presence of Minister of Energy and Water Joe Saddi, signed a $257.8 million loan agreement with World Bank Regional Director Jean-Christophe Carret for the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project. The financing is aimed at improving water coverage for 1.8 million people, reducing dependence on costly private ...
A Power Revolution with No Current
Ryan Chaba 2025-05-24 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
It’s a quietly growing trend. Since Lebanon’s 2021 fuel crisis, the electric vehicle market has been steadily gaining ground. Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), in particular, are spearheading the shift. Their futuristic designs are increasingly becoming common sights on Lebanon’s roads. The numbers are still small but rising. In the absence ...
Turtle Populations Thrive Again in Lebanese Waters
Karl Hajj Moussa 2025-05-25 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Every summer, a rare spectacle unfolds on the beaches of southern Lebanon, where endangered sea turtles brave many dangers to lay their eggs. Their survival now depends on our commitment, as these silent giants struggle to exist. While beaches in southern Lebanon fill with swimmers and vacationers each summer, another visitor—discreet and ...
'Just an Accident:' The Iranian Film That Won Over Cannes and Took Home the Palme d’Or
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-05-25 18:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Cannes 2025 Iran Cinema Cannes Film Festival Jafar Panahi
From the very start of this 78th edition, the tone was set. The official poster, showing a couple running along a beach, taken from Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman, said it all: a nod to romance, but also to the familiar. This year, Cannes offered both comfort and disruption. Comfort, in the form of familiar faces: Claude Lelouch, Daniel ...
Lebanon Secures Spot Among Arab Billion-Dollar Companies
This is Beirut 2025-05-26 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Arab world’s economy is undergoing a rapid transformation, fueled by the rise of financial markets and robust growth in the technology, energy and finance sectors. According to data compiled by Forbes Middle East, more than 280 companies across the region now boast a market valuation exceeding $1 billion. At the forefront of this ...
EDL: At the Heart of Lebanon’s Energy Crisis
Liliane Mokbel 2025-05-27 12:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Banks Beirut International Airport EDL Energy
Electricity rationing is the rule, contrary to all logic in a nation-state framework. A quarter of a century after the end of the Civil War, the Lebanese remain dependent on alternative means of energy supply – mostly at the mercy of the neighborhood private generator supplier. Électricité du Liban (EDL) will long remain in Lebanon’s history ...
Between the Bill and the Blackboard: Lebanon’s Tuition Dilemma
Chelsea Al Arif 2025-05-27 16:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Tuition Fees Private Schools Ministry of Education
Growing concern surrounds the possibility of tuition fee hikes in private schools across Lebanon, prompting questions from parents and the wider public. Many schools have yet to provide clear answers, leaving families unsure of what to expect in the upcoming academic year. When contacted, several schools stated that they are still uncertain about ...
UAE Delegation in Beirut to Boost Economic and Strategic Cooperation
This is Beirut 2025-05-27 16:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Joseph Aoun United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Economic cooperation between Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) advanced on Tuesday with the arrival of a high-level Emirati delegation in Beirut, building on the momentum of President Joseph Aoun’s recent meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi. The delegation, led by Abdullah Nasser Lootah, ...
Jaber: $150 Million Loan to Modernize Lebanon’s Administration
This is Beirut 2025-05-27 19:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon WorldBank Finance Modernization Yassine Jaber Reform
Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced on Tuesday that Lebanon is in advanced talks with the World Bank for a $150 million loan aimed at modernizing the country’s public administration. The loan would fund a comprehensive digital transformation across ministries and state institutions, improving service delivery, increasing transparency and ...
Ortagus: Lebanon Must Do More to Disarm Hezbollah, Offers Alternative to IMF-Led Recovery Plan
This is Beirut 2025-05-21 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon still has "more" to do in disarming Hezbollah following the war between the Iran-backed group and Israel, Deputy US Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus said Tuesday. As part of a deal agreed to end 14 months of fighting last November, Hezbollah was to withdraw its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River, while Israel was to pull all ...