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'Shams' Exhibition at Sursock Museum: A Ray of Hope from Lebanon

This is Beirut, 12/03 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Exhibition Photography Italy Beirut Culture Sursock Museum

The Sursock Museum in Beirut is currently hosting the photographic exhibition Shams (Sun), a journey through images created by the Italian photojournalist Marco Palombi. Through his shots, the viewer will be taken into the classrooms and schoolyards of Lebanese institutions that benefit from Italian Cooperation interventions. The exhibition is ...

Paris Cabaret Scene Mourns Moulin Rouge Icon Janet Pharaoh

This is Beirut, 12/03 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Paris Dancing Moulin Rouge Theater Show Culture

Cabaret dancers, both past and present, gathered on Tuesday to bid farewell to Janet Pharaoh, the longtime creative director of the Moulin Rouge, who played a key role in revitalizing the iconic Parisian cabaret over the last 30 years. Pharaoh, who grew up in northern England, passed away suddenly last week after battling an illness. She was ...

'Anora': The Anti-'Pretty Woman' That Divides Despite Its Oscar Win

Bélinda Ibrahim, 11/03 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Oscars Film Analysis Culture Anora Pretty Woman

With Anora, Sean Baker delivers a film that blends drama and social satire. Crowned at Cannes and later at the 2025 Academy Awards—where it won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison—this feature has nonetheless divided critics. Through the story of Ani, a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, Baker revisits ...

Beirut Art Film Festival: A Tribute to Yemen’s Cultural Heritage

This is Beirut, 11/03 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Beirut Yemen Film Art Cinema Culture

The 2025 edition of the Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF), in collaboration with the American University of Beirut (AUB) Archaeological Museum, highlights Yemen’s rich cultural heritage through an evening of film screenings and discussions titled “Saving Yemen’s Cultural Heritage.” Scheduled for Tuesday, March 18, at 7:00 PM at AUB’s ...

Growing Up Masked: The Psychological Challenges of a Confined Childhood

David Sahyoun, 11/03 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Covid-19 Psychoanalysis Children Traumatism Culture World

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted societies on an unprecedented scale, deeply altering ingrained customs and daily social interactions. Children, navigating crucial phases of their psychological and identity development, were confronted with a world of masked faces, limited social interactions and new anxieties. For infants, the human face is the ...

Paris Fashion Week Unveils Bold and Sculptural Winter Trends

Madeleine Cadoux, 10/03 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Fashion Paris Fashion Week Art Culture Trends

Faux fur reigns supreme, gracing the runways in extravagant volumes and unexpected details. At Chloé, it appears as stoles, coat lapels or playful talismans adorning handbags. Rabanne pairs fur with leather coats and transparent PVC trench coats, while Alaïa steals the show with a striking, long white faux fur coat — plush, voluminous and ...

'A Voice for the Voiceless:' Dalai Lama Outlines Vision for Tibet’s Future in New Book

This is Beirut, 10/03 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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At 89, the Dalai Lama presents a "framework for Tibet’s future" in his new book, offering a path toward autonomy under Chinese rule for his successors. He warns that denying Tibetans self-governance indefinitely is unsustainable, urging dialogue with Beijing. Tibetan exiles fear that China may attempt to appoint a state-approved successor after ...

Fashion Empowering Women: Highlights from Paris Fashion Week

Madeleine Cadoux, 09/03 17:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Fashion Paris Fashion Week Women Art Culture

This season, at Paris Fashion Week, designers embraced bold statements, from reimagined silhouettes to subversive presentations, proving that fashion is more than aesthetics—it’s a declaration of identity, power, and transformation. A Stage for Self-Expression Paris Fashion Week has always been a stage for innovation, but this year, ...

Hermès highlights Felt as the Star of Paris Fashion Week

This is Beirut, 09/03 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Fashion Paris Fashion Week Hermès Collection Culture

French brand Hermès put felt at the heart of its Fall-Winter collection at its Paris Women's Fashion Week show on Saturday in a beige-toned setting resembling a labyrinth. The label sent out models in fitted designs with sharp cuts, small belts accentuating the waist, and jackets with padded shoulders, bucking the oversized trend seen on many ...

March 8: When Women Shake the World

Bélinda Ibrahim, 08/03 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

8 March Culture Women' s Rights History World

In the misty streets of New York in 1908, no one could have imagined that a group of exhausted, underpaid textile workers were paving the way for a global movement. As they stood up against inhumane working conditions, they had no idea they were writing the first chapter of a long history of struggle. Back then, March 8 was just another date on ...

Pamela Anderson Reinvents Herself 32 years after 'Baywatch' and Dreams of Theater

Madeleine Cadoux, 08/03 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

TV Theater Actress Pamela Anderson Culture Art

Pamela Anderson finally feels like an actress, 32 years after Baywatch. After winning rave reviews for her turn in the film The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson is now dreaming of doing theater as the 1990s glamour model seeks to reinvent herself again. The 57-year-old one-time Playboy pin-up, who shot to global fame as lifeguard CJ Parker in ...

Rubens or Replica? Controversy Over 'Samson and Delilah' Rekindled

This is Beirut, 08/03 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Painting Art Culture London Museum Book

Gaudy colors, messy brushwork, even a set of missing toes—the debate about the authenticity of Rubens’s Samson and Delilah will be reignited next week with the release of a book alleging that the painting hanging in London’s National Gallery is actually a copy. The work by the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens was purchased by ...

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