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A Journey Through the Mystery of Cleopatra at the Arab World Institute in Paris
Marie-Christine Tayah 2025-07-24 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cleopatra Paris Arab World Institute Exhibition Culture Egypt
Among all the women in history, Cleopatra has stood apart through her aura of mystery, her carefully cultivated image, and her lasting legacy. She has been woven into the fabric of history as both a femme fatale and a sovereign: a queen, a seductress, a shrewd politician, and an enigma. In Paris, the Arab World Institute is currently presenting ...
Germs, Pollution, Junk Food: Lebanon’s Summer of All Dangers
Makram Haddad 2025-07-24 12:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A Feverish Country, Citizens Out of Breath A morning like any other in Beirut. Unusual lines at the pharmacy, overwhelmed medical offices, worried parents in pediatric waiting rooms. Fever, cough, diarrhea, vomiting… For several weeks, Lebanese citizens have been falling ill. Gastroenteritis, rotavirus, summer flu, COVID and lung infections are ...
Gaza: UN Unable to Verify Number of Aid Shipments Awaiting Distribution Due to Lack of Access
This is Beirut 2025-07-24 17:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam United Nations Palestine Hamas United States
The United Nations said Thursday it does not know how many aid consignments are currently in Gaza awaiting distribution, as it has not been authorized by Israel to be present at the crossing points. The Israeli military denied on Wednesday that it was blocking humanitarian aid and claimed that 950 trucks were in Gaza waiting for international ...
The Politics of Frozen Conflicts and Their Antidotes
Charles Chartouni 2025-07-28 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Iran Yemen Hezbollah United States Syria
Paradoxically enough, the strategic contexts throughout the Middle and Near East extending between Iran and Gaza are in a state of volatility, and none of the security issues at stake have been addressed in a conclusive manner — or were ever meant to be. After the consecutive defeats that have unraveled the strategic and political realms of ...
Pregnancy Denial: Society’s Blind Spot on Invisible Motherhood
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-07-24 22:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Motherhood Women Pregnancies Babies
In the popular imagination, pregnancy is visible, joyful, and shared. A growing belly, ultrasound photos, the first baby clothes. It is something openly embraced, often proudly displayed. So how is it possible that a woman could carry a child to term without knowing it? And even more unsettling, that no one around her - not her family, friends, or ...
Caminos Lebanon: When Pilgrimage Routes Drive Economic Revival
Christiane Tager 2025-07-25 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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 ...
Road Safety in Lebanon: Running on Empty
Liliane Mokbel 2025-07-25 21:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
When it comes to road safety, Lebanon has reached a breaking point that elicits both outrage and sympathy. Ageing used cars that seem to defy the laws of mechanics, roads that resemble off-road rally tracks, haphazard or missing signage, and legislation that still feels like it’s in test mode. Despite this chaos, many Lebanese continue to hope ...
Top US Justice Official Questions Epstein Accomplice for 2nd Day
This is Beirut 2025-07-26 05:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump Justice
The US Justice Department's deputy chief conducted a second day of questioning Friday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose infamous case has dragged President Donald Trump into a political firestorm. Todd Blanche, who is also Trump's former personal attorney, has so far declined to ...
Ziad Rahbani, Fairuz’s Son and Cultural Icon, Has Died
This is Beirut 2025-07-26 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Ziad Rahbani Music Culture Art Heritage
Lebanon is mourning one of its most influential cultural figures. Ziad Rahbani, composer, pianist, playwright, and outspoken political commentator, has died at the age of 69. Born in 1956 to the legendary singer Fairuz and pioneering composer Assi Rahbani, Ziad grew up surrounded by music. Yet, he forged his own path, blending art, satire, and ...
Qaraoun Water Crisis Triggers Hydropower Collapse in Lebanon
Liliane Mokbel 2025-07-26 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
What began as an environmental emergency is now fueling a national energy crisis. The severe drop in water levels at Lake Qaraoun is crippling Lebanon’s hydroelectric output and threatening power security across the country. In June 2025, hydroelectric production decreased by 76 percent compared to the same month in the previous year. Only 12 ...
UN to Use 'Humanitarian Pauses' to Try to Reach Gaza's Starving
This is Beirut 2025-07-27 19:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United Nations World Food Programme Humanitarian Aid Gaza
The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys. The UN's World Food Program (WFP) said it had enough food in, or on its way to, the region to feed the 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip for almost three ...
EU, US strike 'biggest-ever' trade deal
This is Beirut 2025-07-27 19:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United States European Commission European Union Donald Trump Ursula von der Leyen
he United States and European Union on Sunday clinched what President Donald Trump described as the "biggest-ever" deal to resolve a transatlantic tariff stand-off that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war. Trump emerged from a high-stakes meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at his golf resort in ...
European Union Resigned to 15 Percent US Tariff
This is Beirut 2025-07-28 08:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
European Union USA Trade Tariffs
The United States and the European Union clinched a trade agreement on Sunday that will see EU exports taxed at 15 percent, in a bid to resolve a transatlantic tariff stand-off that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war. US President Donald Trump emerged from a high-stakes meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der ...
Can Hezbollah Still Claim Resistance With Its Arsenal Depleted?
Mario Chartouni 2025-08-05 14:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Middle East Syria Iran weapons
Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Naim Qassem, warned on July 30 that any withdrawal of the group’s forces from south of the Litani River would be “a gain for Israel,” insisting that the party’s weapons remained “a domestic Lebanese matter.” Speaking at a memorial ceremony marking the first anniversary of the death of senior Hezbollah ...
Natural Disasters Caused $135 BN in Economic Losses in First Half of 2025
This is Beirut 2025-08-06 13:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
switzerland insurance climate Economy
Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles wildfires, Swiss Re said Wednesday. Swiss Re, which serves as an insurer of insurance companies, said first half losses were up from the $123 billion in the first half of 2024. The Zurich-based reinsurance giant estimated that ...
Chelsea Thrash West Ham to Pile Pressure on Former Boss Potter
This is Beirut 2025-08-23 02:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Football Premier League Chelsea
Chelsea came from behind to thrash West Ham 5-1 on Friday and leave former Blues boss Graham Potter under pressure just two games into the Premier League season. Potter has won just five of 21 games since taking charge in January and has endured a miserable start to the new campaign after a 3-0 defeat to newly-promoted Sunderland last ...
Netanyahu Slams Macron for Fuelling 'Antisemitic Fire'
This is Beirut 2025-08-19 21:34 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu France Emmanuel Macron
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided President Emmanuel Macron in a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, blaming the French leader's move to recognize a Palestinian state for fueling antisemitism. France slammed as "abject" and "erroneous" Netanyahu's accusation of antisemitism against President Emmanuel ...
Five Things to Know About Nigeria's Oil Sector
This is Beirut 2025-08-15 09:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Africa's biggest oil refinery will on Friday start direct and free shipping of fuel to retailers in Nigeria, a move expected to disrupt the oil sector in the continent's largest crude producer. Nigeria's Dangote Refinery says that the plan will boost efficiency by cutting down on intermediaries while providing more competitive options for ...
Golden Controllers: The Hidden Economy of Video Games
Christiane Tager 2025-08-15 20:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Free to play… yet astonishingly profitable, today’s video games turn our clicks into cash. Microtransactions, virtual concerts and blockbuster partnerships have made Fortnite, Candy Crush and their peers billion-dollar giants. And in Lebanon, players show no sign of putting down their controllers anytime soon. Video games, once seen as mere ...
Barrack-Ortagus in Brief: Support for Government and Army, Conditions on UNIFIL Renewal
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-08-17 13:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Early on Monday morning, US envoy Tom Barrack, accompanied by Morgan Ortagus, will meet with President Joseph Aoun to discuss two interlinked essential issues: the second phase of consolidating state control over all weapons, and the renewal of UNIFIL’s mandate in South Lebanon at the end of this month. According to official Lebanese sources, ...
Terrorists' Brinkmanship
Charles Chartouni 2025-08-18 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Gaza Syria Hamas Hezbollah
The riddled negotiations taking place in Lebanon and Gaza and the equivocations of the Syrian transition are quite compelling since they convey the ambiguities undermining political stability in these different environments. Nonetheless, they illustrate the difficulties of political transitioning in countries partially or totally controlled by ...
Lebanon’s Sovereignty Tested at the Syrian Border
Mario Chartouni 2025-08-18 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Syria Borders Demarcation
Since mid-August, a viral social media video has shown a man claiming to represent “Syrian tribes” issuing a stark warning to Lebanon: “We will invade Lebanon within 48 hours if Syrian detainees are not released,” referring to Syrians held at Roumieh prison. The threat follows the death of a Syrian inmate on August 14, which sparked ...
Beirut Port Shows Strong Performance in First Half of 2025
This is Beirut 2025-08-19 09:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Beirut Port Imports Traffic Results
Despite Israel’s military escalation in Gaza and southern Lebanon, as well as Lebanon’s ongoing political, financial and social turmoil, the Port of Beirut continued to deliver strong results in the first half of 2025. According to Elie Zakhour, vice-president of the Arab Union of Maritime Navigation Chambers and former head of the ...
Beirut Traders Index Points to Fragile Economic Rebound
This is Beirut 2025-08-19 16:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The latest index of the Beirut Traders Association-Fransabank (Q2 2025) shows the first signs of a recovery in local markets, a welcome development as the World Bank forecasts 4.7% GDP growth for Lebanon in 2025 and a sharp drop in inflation. The retail trade index rose to 33.13 points in Q2 2025, up from 30.01 the previous quarter (base 100 = Q4 ...
Vanished Masterpieces: The Art of the Perfect Crime
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-08-19 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Europe Masterpieces Art Heists Mona Lisa Munch
When a masterpiece disappears, a void opens in collective memory. Visitors pause before the empty frame, whispering stories and imagining the audacity of the theft. The moment art slips into shadow, legend takes over. Disappearance grants a fame no peaceful exhibition could ever match. An art theft is never just another crime. It strikes at the ...
Israel-France Row Flares Over Macron's Move to Recognize Palestinian State
This is Beirut 2025-08-20 09:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A row between Israel and France over Paris's plan to recognize a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting "antisemitism". The Élysée hit back, calling Netanyahu's allegation "abject" and "erroneous". "This is a time for seriousness ...
Private Generators in Lebanon: The Toll of a Profitable, Highly Polluting Industry
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-08-14 20:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Wednesday, the Lebanese government announced a crackdown on one of the most visible symbols of the country’s failed public electricity sector: private generators. During a ministerial meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, operators were given a maximum of 45 days to comply with legal and environmental standards. After that ...
Afghanistan Bus Crash Death Toll Rises to 78
This is Beirut 2025-08-20 12:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, a provincial official said on Wednesday. "Seventy-six citizens of the country... lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured," Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat ...
Sweida at the Center of Damascus-Tel Aviv Talks in Paris
Soumia Benmerzoug 2025-08-20 20:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Syria and Israel resumed direct dialogue on Tuesday in Paris. Syrian Foreign Minister Assaad al-Chaibani met with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer to explore ways to stabilize southern Syria, which has been rocked by violent clashes in recent weeks. This marks the second direct meeting between the two countries in less than a ...
Surging Tourism is Polluting Antarctica, Scientists Warn
This is Beirut 2025-08-21 09:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antarctica Pollution Tourism Environment
Soaring numbers of tourists and expanding research projects are increasingly polluting Antarctica, scientists warned Wednesday, a fresh blow for one of Earth's most pristine environments already threatened by human-driven climate change. In Antarctic areas where humans have been active, the concentration of fine particles containing heavy metals ...