This is Beirut 05/04 22:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Gaza Egypt Hamas Israel
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said he would hold a trilateral summit on the situation in Gaza with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II. Israel has pushed to seize territory in Gaza since the collapse of a short-lived truce in its war with Hamas, in what it has called a strategy to force the ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 05/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Writers Neuroses Literature Culture
Literature loves outsiders. But what it cherishes most are organized outsiders—those who turn their strangeness into a narrative engine, their questionable lifestyles into bursts of staggering productivity. This second part focuses on writers who today might be considered, depending on one’s perspective, either misunderstood geniuses or ...
This is Beirut 05/04 16:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Donald Trump United States Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled for a high-stakes White House meeting with President Trump on Monday, according to four knowledgeable sources who spoke with Axios. This potential visit marks Netanyahu as the first international leader to personally engage with President Trump in an attempt to negotiate relief from the ...
This is Beirut 05/04 16:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United States Volodymyr Zelensky Russia Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy for what he called a "weak" statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike on his hometown that killed 18 people, including nine children. In one of the deadliest strikes in recent weeks, a Russian missile on Friday evening struck a residential area near ...
This is Beirut 05/04 16:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump Republicans Democrats US Congress USA
US senators on Saturday approved a budget blueprint unlocking trillions of dollars for sweeping tax cuts promised by President Donald Trump, despite bitter infighting among the majority Republicans over the savings that will be needed to fund them. Working deep into the night, lawmakers voted 51-48, mostly along party lines, to approve the ...
This is Beirut 05/04 15:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran United States Masoud Pezeshkian Iran Nuclear Program
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday said his country was willing to engage in dialogue with the United States as equals, without clarifying whether Tehran would participate in direct talks. It came after US President Donald Trump, who has called on Tehran to hold direct negotiations on its nuclear program, threatened to bomb Iran if ...
This is Beirut 05/04 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran Masoud Pezeshkian Shahram Dabiri
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday dismissed his deputy for parliamentary affairs over a costly trip to Antarctica as the country grapples with hyperinflation amid a biting economic crisis. A photo shared on social media in recent days showed the now former vice-president, Shahram Dabiri, alongside a woman identified as his wife, ...
This is Beirut 05/04 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump China Tariffs
President Donald Trump's widest-ranging tariffs to date took effect Saturday, in a move which could trigger retaliation and escalating trade tensions that could upset the global economy. A 10 percent "baseline" tariff came into place past midnight, hitting most US imports except goods from Mexico and Canada as Trump invoked emergency economic ...
This is Beirut 05/04 05:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States Donald Trump Tariffs Economy
President Donald Trump goaded China on Friday after the United States' chief economic rival retaliated against his tariffs, and he dismissed falling stock markets over the growing global trade war, touting it as a chance to "get rich." "China played it wrong, they panicked -- the one thing they cannot afford to do!" Trump ...
This is Beirut 05/04 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rig killed 18 people on Friday, among them nine children, authorities said. The missile struck a residential area near a children's playground and wounded more than two dozen others, according to the head of the city's military ...
This is Beirut 04/04 18:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's attorney general on Friday criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's move to fire internal security chief Ronen Bar, saying it was "tainted by a personal conflict of interest." In a statement, Gali Baharav-Miara said the government's "decision to terminate the tenure of the head of the Shin Bet is fundamentally flawed, tainted by a ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 04/04 18:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Literature Writers Culture Neuroses
The act of writing is peculiar in that it lies at the crossroads of inspiration and method – between the sudden emergence of words and the mechanics of movement. For some authors, routine becomes a sacred ritual, a meticulously orchestrated sequence of gestures meant to ward off the terror of the blank page. Others find in it a form of ...