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Judge Overturns Trump Funding Cuts to Harvard
This is Beirut 2025-09-04 04:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Harvard Justice Donald Trump
A US judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to overturn deep funding cuts to Harvard University that froze more than $2 billion over allegations of antisemitism and bias at the Ivy League institution. The administration insisted its move was legally justified over Harvard's alleged failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students ...
Research Links Thousands of Deaths in Europe This Summer to Climate Change
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 21:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 15,000 deaths this summer in major European cities could be attributed to climate change, according to researchers in a preliminary study that has already been welcomed by other scientists. “Focusing on 854 European cities, this study concludes that climate change is behind 68% of the 24,400 deaths estimated to be linked to heat this ...
Turkey: New Crackdown on Opposition in Istanbul
This is Beirut 2025-09-13 12:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Istanbul prosecutor on Saturday ordered the arrest of 48 members of the Bayrampasa municipality, an opposition-run district of the city, including the mayor, on charges of “corruption,” the state news agency Anadolu reported. Mayor Hasan Mutlu, a member of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP, social democratic), and ...
France Launches Appeal to Acquire Proust’s ‘Madeleine’ Writings
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 18:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Literature Auction Proust France History Culture
France's National Library launched a public appeal for donations on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of unpublished documents belonging to Marcel Proust, including some showing how the famed writer settled on one of his most famous lines. Some of the roughly 900 documents were put up for show by the auction house Sotheby's on Wednesday morning and ...
Addiction: A Cry from a Distressed Self
David Sahyoun 2025-09-17 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Addiction Psychoanalysis Void Cry Despair Drug
What if addiction is not simply an excess, but a silent call to fill an absence? From a psychoanalytic standpoint, dependence expresses the language of a body left without symbolic support. Psychoanalysis examines the unconscious roots of addiction, its connection to trauma, and its ties to the maternal bond. Addiction can be understood as a way ...
Enteromix: Breakthrough or Mirage in Russia’s Anti-Cancer Vaccine?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-17 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Russia Vaccine Cancer Enteromix Science
Moscow made headlines with a bold claim. According to Russian researchers, the Enteromix vaccine offers total effectiveness against certain cancers. Hailed as a major scientific breakthrough and promised free of charge to the public, this therapeutic treatment has sparked both excitement and skepticism. But what does this announcement really ...
Trump's UK Visit Lands AI, Pharma and Nuclear Pledges
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 12:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Kingdom United States Economy AI Nuclear
President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK has delivered pledges from US tech giants to invest a combined $42 billion to help drive Britain's AI sector. The UK and US governments, meanwhile, agreed on cooperation over nuclear and space technology as part of a "Tech Prosperity Deal", and British pharmaceutical group GSK pledged investment in ...
Britain's GSK Vows $30 Bn Investment in US as Trump Visits
This is Beirut 2025-09-17 09:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Donald Trump United States United Kingdom GSK London
British pharmaceutical group GSK said Wednesday it will invest $30 billion in the United States over the next five years, as drugmakers face pressure from US President Donald Trump to produce more in the country. The investments, announced on the first day of Trump's state visit to Britain, will bolster GSK's research and development as well as ...
Does Intelligence Really Come from the Mother? Science Explains
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-16 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Intelligence Mother Father Genes Science
The notion that a child's intelligence stems primarily from their mother is a persistent belief, amplified by popular media and casual conversation. It portrays mothers as the chief architects of cognitive potential, an idea that’s both appealing and seemingly rooted in biology. Science, however, paints a much more complex picture. It is true ...
Google says to Invest £5bn in UK Ahead of Trump Visit
This is Beirut 2025-09-16 09:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Kingdom USA Google
Google said Tuesday it was investing £5 billion ($6.8 billion) in the UK over the next two years to help power the country's AI drive, ahead of a visit by US President Donald Trump. The funds would go towards the company's "capital expenditure, research and development ... and encompasses Google DeepMind with its pioneering AI research in ...
Spain Cancels Major Israel Arms Deal amid Gaza Backlash
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 20:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Spain Military Gaza
The Spanish government has cancelled a contract worth nearly 700 million euros ($825 million) for Israeli-designed rocket launchers, according to an official document seen Monday by AFP. The move comes after Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced last week that his government would "consolidate in law" a ban on military equipment sales or ...
Arab, Muslim Leaders Hold Emergency talks After Israel's Qatar Attack
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 12:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Joseph Aoun US Secretary of State Qatar
Leaders from Arab and Muslim countries will gather for an emergency summit in Doha on Monday, a week after Israel's unprecedented strike on Hamas in Qatar prompted widespread anger. The President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, arrived at Hamad International Airport in Doha to lead the Lebanese delegation at the summit. Foreign ...
Demon Slayer Breaks Records with Historic North America Debut
This is Beirut 2025-09-15 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Culture Cinema Art Film Demon Slayer Japan
The latest entry in Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer anime film series took first place in the North American box office this weekend with a genre-record $70 million debut, industry estimates showed Sunday. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba -- Infinity Castle: Part 1, the first title in a new trilogy based on the popular manga series, opened to the top ...
Palestinian Circumlocutions
Charles Chartouni 2025-09-15 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Palestine UN
The unending Palestinian saga seems to thrive on power politics entanglements, unwinding political patronages and the externalization of blame without any critical retrospection to figure out the rationale behind the unending cycles of political entrapment and outright instrumentation. We are faced with a behavioral pattern that never belied ...
Lebanon: Real Estate Market Tied to Political and Economic Outlook
Liliane Mokbel 2025-09-13 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A study by the Research and Studies Department of Bank Audi, published in September 2025, lays out three scenarios for the next twelve months: a positive scenario with a 55 percent probability, a moderate scenario at 30 percent, and a negative scenario at 15 percent. In a positive scenario, such as the state gaining full control over weapons, ...
'Gloomy Sunday,' the So-Called 'Suicide Song'
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-12 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gloomy Sunday Song Suicide Story Culture Music
It is rare for a song to inspire as much fascination, dread and myth as “Gloomy Sunday.” Written in the depths of the Great Depression by Hungarian musician Rezső Seress, this melancholy waltz has carried with it for nearly a century a trail of persistent rumors: branded the “suicide song,” it was allegedly banned from airwaves and ...
When AI Confronts Alzheimer’s: Bill Gates’ Million-Dollar Bet
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-04 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Alzheimer Research Bill Gates AI Reward
Is the fight against Alzheimer’s on the brink of a revolution? Driven by Gates, a new international science prize worth $1 million has just been unveiled to encourage the use of AI in tackling this neurodegenerative disease, which currently affects more than 55 million people worldwide. The announcement, made through the Alzheimer’s Disease ...
A Crusader Organ Resurfaces in Jerusalem
This is Beirut 2025-09-11 13:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The pipes of a medieval organ, buried for centuries and discovered near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, are once more filling a Jerusalem monastery with ancient melodies. "This is a window into the past... we have the opportunity for the first time in modern history of listening to a medieval sound which is ...
Brain Freeze: Why Can Ice Cream Knock Us Out?
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-09-11 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Brain Freeze Science Cold Ice Reflex
It’s an experience many of us have had, often while sitting at a café terrace in summer or sharing a bowl of ice cream with friends. You take a bite, swallow too quickly, and suddenly a sharp pain shoots across your forehead, a jolt so sudden it makes you stop in your tracks. The term “brain freeze” captures this almost absurd sensation, as ...
Informing Parents not Enough to Fight Childhood Obesity
This is Beirut 2025-09-11 09:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Kingdom United States Obesity Children
Government-led programs attempting to curb childhood obesity by educating parents do not work, an international study published Thursday concluded, and researchers are calling for policies that prioritize society-wide solutions. Obesity is a major health crisis with more than one in eight people globally now obese, according to the World Health ...
Kidnapped Academic Tsurkov in Israel after Release from Iraq
This is Beirut 2025-09-10 23:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Irak Baghdad Elizabeth Tsurkov
Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov arrived in Israel on Monday, a day after she was released more than two years after her kidnapping in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the release of Tsurkov, who had been held hostage since March 2023. "Elizabeth Tsurkov, ...
Houthi Media Says Israel Struck Yemeni Capital
This is Beirut 2025-09-10 20:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Yemen Houthi Movement
Yemen's Houthis on Tuesday said Israeli air strikes hit Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with an AFP journalist reporting the sound of explosions. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Israeli strikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa and Jawf province on Wednesday, the insurgents said in a statement. "The death toll has ...
400-Year-Old Rubens Found in Paris Mansion
This is Beirut 2025-09-10 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Painting Rubens Discovery France Netherlands Culture
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens has been found in a Paris mansion, a French auctioneer said on Wednesday. "It is a masterpiece," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, who had made the discovery, referring to the sketch of Jesus Christ on the cross painted in 1613. "It was painted by Rubens at the height of his talent," ...
The Unconscious in the Digital Age: What Freud and Lacan Would Have Seen on Our Screens
David Sahyoun 2025-09-10 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Freud Lacan Social Media Culture Unconscious
Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...
Where Is Hezbollah’s Arsenal Still Hidden?
Mario Chartouni 2025-09-09 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Lebanese Army Baalbeck Internal Security Forces
Since the November 2024 ceasefire and Hezbollah’s crushing military defeat by Israel, the question of the pro-Iranian group’s arsenal has once again moved to the forefront in Lebanon. Caught between international pressure, internal fragility and a government determined to reassert control over weapons, Hezbollah appears weakened. Yet its ...
WHO Backs Weight-Loss Drugs, Urges Cheap Generics
This is Beirut 2025-09-09 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The World Health Organization recommended a range of blockbuster weight-loss drugs to treat diabetes and obesity globally for the first time on Friday, calling for cheap generic versions to be made available for people in developing countries. The new generation of appetite-suppressing drugs called GLP-1 agonists -- which include the brands ...
Water Shortage in Lebanon: Government Urged to Declare Hydric Emergency
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 11:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon is facing an unprecedented drought that could worsen in the coming month, with no rainfall expected before October 15. Michel Frem, president of the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (IRAL), has urged the government to declare a “hydric emergency.” In a statement released on Monday, Frem warned that both surface water and ...
Russell Crowe Stuns at Toronto International Film Festival with Chilling Nazi Role
This is Beirut 2025-09-08 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Toronto International Film Festival Cinema Awards Canada Culture Art
Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. Crowe's depiction of the second-ranking Nazi, Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, as he plays a cat-and-mouse game with a psychiatrist (Rami ...
From Montpellier to Beirut: Sharing Medical Innovation
Makram Haddad 2025-09-06 09:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The conference hall of the Hôpital Français du Levant buzzed on Friday with unusual excitement. Impeccable white coats, understated suits, attentive gazes: doctors, researchers, diplomats and institutional representatives gathered for a rare moment in the recent history of Lebanese medicine. Beneath the large bay windows flooding the room with ...
Editorial—Irrationality and Reckless Escalation in the Gaza Conflict
Michel Touma 2024-05-29 11:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli-Arab conflict has endured for more than three-quarters of a century. Throughout these 75 years, certain Arab regimes and Palestinian organizations have tried to advance on the path of “liberating Palestine.” Or so they pretended to do, yet their endeavors were limited to theatrics and eloquent speeches, failing to materialize into ...