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From Rockets to Reels: Iran and Hezbollah’s Fight for Survival through Propaganda
Salam El Zaatari 2025-12-17 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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After the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah war, Iran and its main regional proxy faced a grim reality. Hezbollah survived the war, but its top leadership had been assassinated, much of its arsenal destroyed, thousands of its fighters killed, and it was forced to retreat from south of the Litani. In response, Iran and Hezbollah have shifted from kinetic ...
Lebanon's Oldest Lock on Power Is the Speaker's Chair
Salam El Zaatari 06/02 09:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Fortunate countries see their leaders come and go; in hapless ones, time ravages everything but their rulers. Lebanon is trapped in the latter camp, with one politician freezing his grip on power and the country’s chance for reform. The country’s banks collapsed and its currency crashed, the port exploded, half the youth emigrated, and whole ...
U.S. Tanker Approached by Iranian Gunboats in Strait of Hormuz
This is Beirut 03/02 21:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A US-flagged tanker was approached and challenged on Tuesday by Iranian gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz, before continuing on its way, US Central Command said. CENTCOM spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins said two Iranian boats and a drone approached the US-flagged ship M/V Stena Imperative "at high speeds and threatened to board and seize the ...
January 2026: What the Surge in Israeli Strikes in Lebanon Signals
This is Beirut 03/02 13:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
January 2026 marked a sharp escalation in Israeli military activity in Lebanon, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducting 87 airstrikes, more than double the number recorded in December 2025. It was the most active month since the ceasefire of November 27, 2024, underscoring a shift in operational tempo even as Israel maintains that its ...
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Areas Near Sidon, Including Nabih Berri’s Hometown
This is Beirut 30/01 20:20 - Reading : less than a minute
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Israeli airstrikes were reported near Mseileh, al-Najjariya, al-Dawoudiya and Wadi Azza in the Sidon district of southern Lebanon on Friday night. According to the IDF, the strikes aimed to destroy Hezbollah engineering equipment. There are also reports on Friday of low-flying Israeli aircraft over the villages of Zahrani. Mseileh is ...
Iran Dismisses Trump’s Claim He Prevented 800 Hangings
This is Beirut 23/01 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Iran's Attorney General said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump's allegations that Tehran stopped the execution of 800 detained protesters because of his intervention are "absolutely incorrect.” According to the judiciary’s Mizan news agency, Mohammad Mohebi said, “This claim is entirely ...
The Unraveling of Hezbollah’s Strategic Myth
Marwan El Amine 22/01 15:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Since its inception, Hezbollah has sought to transform Shia identity in Lebanon from a national one into an ideological one, anchored in Iran’s Wilayat al-Faqih doctrine of absolute loyalty to its supreme leader. Yet its attempts to tighten control over the Shia community through Tehran’s political ideology met significant obstacles, pushing ...
Over 400 Prominent Women Urge Iran to Halt Execution of Woman Activist
This is Beirut 2025-12-23 21:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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More than 400 prominent women, including four Nobel laureates and several former presidents and prime ministers, demanded Tuesday that Iran immediately release engineer and activist Zahra Tabari, fearing she faces imminent execution. The urgent public appeal charged that Tabari, a 67-year-old mother, was handed a death sentence in October ...
IMF Reservations Fuel Dispute Over Financial Gap Law
This is Beirut 2025-12-23 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Nidaa al-Watan reported Tuesday that controversy persists over the leaked draft Financial Gap Law, amid claims that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is dissatisfied and has raised reservations. While the draft is expected to be circulated to ministers ahead of a possible Cabinet vote, political and diplomatic circles cited by the newspaper ...
Lebanon Denies Israel’s Claim Linking Killed Soldier to Hezbollah
This is Beirut 2025-12-23 12:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Israeli Army on Tuesday claimed that a Lebanese soldier killed in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Saida on Monday was linked to Hezbollah, describing the alleged coordination as a “serious matter”. In a statement posted on X, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said Israeli forces carried out what he ...
Gap Law: The Programmed Destruction of the Banking Sector
This is Beirut 2025-12-21 15:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Presented as a restructuring measure, the Gap Law organizes a methodical liquidation of the Lebanese banking sector. Behind complex technical mechanisms—loss hierarchy, balance-sheet cleanup, recapitalization—lies a clear political choice: to sacrifice banks to settle a public crisis that the state refuses to assume. This text does not reform ...
Gap Law: Nawaf Salam and the IMF, Architects of a Legalized Spoliation
This is Beirut 2025-12-20 16:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
By claiming on Monday a commitment to “deliver justice to depositors,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam did more than distort reality: with the active backing of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he sealed one of the greatest financial and moral abdications in Lebanon’s history. The Gap Law, presented as a lifesaving legal framework, is in ...
Gap Law: When the State Organizes Its Disengagement at the Expense of Depositors
This is Beirut 2025-12-19 22:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Under the guise of structural reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the “Gap Law” currently being prepared in Lebanon is raising growing concern. Presented as a technical tool designed to bridge the country’s massive financial shortfall, this law is now seen by many experts as a mechanism allowing the state to evade its ...
Silence in Psychoanalysis: What the Absence of Words Reveals
David Sahyoun 2025-12-17 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Some silences are deafening, heavy, cutting through, and freezing the space around them. Others, by contrast, open a gap, suspending the flow of speech like a hand gently soothing a wound. In psychoanalysis, silence is not the enemy of discourse; on the contrary, it is its very condition, sometimes even its hidden engine. Silence permeates ...
Trump Launches ‘Board of Peace’ as Gaza Plan Faces Scrutiny
This is Beirut 19/02 10:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to preside Thursday over the inaugural meeting of his newly created “Board of Peace,” his new institution focused on progress on Gaza but whose ambitions reach much further. The head of the Palestinian technocratic committee formed to handle day-to-day governance of Gaza, Ali Shaath, was in ...
Israel Strikes Two Vehicles in Southern Lebanon, One in Rare Chouf Attack
This is Beirut 2025-12-16 16:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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An Israeli drone strike on Tuesday killed one Hezbollah member in Marjayoun after targeting a Rapid vehicle, and in a rare move, the IDF also struck a vehicle in Chouf’s Siblin–Jadra road, reportedly killing another Hezbollah member and injuring five others. The IDF declared on Wednesday that the Hezbollah operative killed in an ...
Senior Hamas Military Leader Raed Saad Killed in Israeli Airstrike
This is Beirut 2025-12-13 18:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel said it killed the head of weapons production in Hamas's military wing in a strike in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. "In response to the activation of a Hamas explosive device that wounded our forces today... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the elimination of the terrorist Raad Saad, ...
Lebanon’s Collective Trauma Needs Peace
Salam El Zaatari 2025-12-11 15:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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There was an unmistakable irony on Monday as Lebanon’s “Sunni street” marked the first anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime. The same community that has condemned its Shia counterparts for venerating Iran’s rulers now engages in the same political canonization, this time for Syria’s new leaders. The motorbike convoys ...
“Hope:” The Last Lifeline
Sana Richa Choucair 2025-12-07 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
“Young people of Lebanon, grow strong like the cedars and let the world blossom with hope!” With these words, Pope Leon XIV concluded his address to the 15,000 Lebanese youths gathered around him on December 1 at the patriarchal siege in Bkerke. “Hope”, a word charged with meaning and symbolism, invites us to revisit both its spiritual ...
From Tea to Tango: Liverpool Seniors Dance Away Loneliness
This is Beirut 2025-12-04 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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All gloom was left outside as pensioners bustled into a room in Liverpool's centuries-old town hall for a tea dance, a lively antidote to getting older in Britain. "Come to tea dances and avoid the NHS!" joked Davina Woods, 71, referring to the country's creaking health system and the awareness the retirees have that as they age, they will likely ...
The Gentle Dictatorship of the Socio-Economic
David Sahyoun 2025-12-03 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Socio-Economic Dictatorship
Domination does not always present itself through harshness. Some forms advance gently, not through coercion but through the pull of seduction. They show no signs of authoritarian rule and present themselves instead as paths that promise freedom. The current socio-economic order belongs to this quiet family of tyrannies. It draws individuals into ...
Badminton: Lebanon Shines in Erbil With 12 Medals
Makram Haddad 2025-11-27 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanese badminton soared high in Erbil. At the West Asia Regional Championships, held in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon’s young shuttlers delivered a statement performance: 12 medals in total (2 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze) across the U15, U17, and U23 categories—plus a team title and a steady harvest in individual events. Under the ...
Basketball – 2027 World Cup: Lebanon Starts Its Engines
Makram Haddad 2025-11-26 08:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Qatar Baskteball World cup Qualifiers
Ranked 30th in the FIBA standings, Lebanon enters Window 1 ahead of Saudi Arabia (64th), India (76th) and Qatar (83rd). The objective is clear: secure a second consecutive World Cup qualification, reach a fifth appearance on the global stage, and turn this theoretical advantage into real points from the very first games. Their last official ...
Hanoi to Welcome a Renzo Piano “Opera Island” in 2027
Bélinda Ibrahim 2025-11-25 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hanoi Isola Della Musica Opera Culture Renzo Piano Vietnam
By 2027, a striking new landmark will rise from the calm waters of Hanoi. Built on an artificial island between West Lake and Đầm Trị Lake, the Isola Della Musica, designed by Renzo Piano and his studio, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), will unfold like a bright, sculptural form with fluid, organic lines. Revealed in autumn 2025, the ...
Nigeria’s Bronze Masters Preserve Ancient Craft Amid Modern Pressures
This is Beirut 2025-11-21 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nigeria Africa Craftsmanship Culture Art Heritage
Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid into a partly buried mold, using a centuries-old technique that still flourishes in Nigeria's south. After a short cooling period, the mold is dug up and opened, revealing three small bronze heads fashioned after an ancient ...
The F-35: Cutting-Edge Fifth-Generation Stealth Fighter
Paul Guillot 2025-11-20 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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On November 17, 2025, just ahead of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's visit to Washington, the United States announced the imminent sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, marking a pivotal moment in their strategic alliance. But what is the F-35, and what makes it one of the most sought-after combat aircraft in the ...
When French Luxury Meets India’s Deep Fashion Traditions
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 17:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The globe's biggest luxury brands have dreamt of India's vast consumer base for decades, but navigating the market has proven to be a complex task. French retailer Galeries Lafayette is the latest to try its luck, opening its first Indian store on Sunday: a sprawling five-floor outlet in Mumbai, the country's financial capital. Its ...
Turkey Arrests Two on Charges of Spying for Israel
This is Beirut 06/02 11:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Turkish intelligence has arrested two people on suspicion of spying for Israel's Mossad and providing information that helped the spy agency target its enemies, state news agency Anadolu reported Friday. Security sources said Mehmet Budak Derya and Veysel Kerimoglu had been arrested in Istanbul, saying they had long been on the radar of ...
Pentagon’s Kamikaze Drone Unit Ready Amid U.S.–Iran Talks
This is Beirut 27/02 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United States has a new one-way attack drone unit, built by reverse-engineering Iran’s Shahed-136 drones, ready to strike Iran if President Donald Trump orders military action, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the unit, named Task Force Scorpion, emerged from an experimental U.S. military program and is now fully integrated ...
Emirates Orders 65 Boeing 777X Planes in $38 BN Deal
This is Beirut 2025-11-17 11:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Emirates ordered 65 Boeing 777X planes in a deal worth $38 billion on Monday, delivering a boost to the US manufacturer on day one of the Dubai Airshow. Deliveries are expected to start from the second quarter of 2027 under the deal, which also includes 130 GE9X engines from General Electric. "It's a long-term commitment that supports hundreds ...