Culture

From Raves to Roots: Saudi Arabia Spotlights its Heritage

This is Beirut 18/08 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Saudi Arabia Culture Heritage Music Concert Art

First, deeply religious Saudi Arabia opened its doors to Western raves and music festivals. Now it's turning to long-neglected Saudi traditions as it seeks to draw tourists and reshape its national identity. In Terhal, a lavish stage show in Riyadh, an actor in a red-and-white headdress gallops on a white horse, exploring the kingdom's heritage ...

'Weapons' Rules North American Box Office for Second Week

This is Beirut 18/08 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Box Office Cinema Movies Culture Art US

Buzzy horror film Weapons won the North American box office for a second week running with $25 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday. The Warner Bros. movie starring Julia Garner (Ozark) and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War) tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of a group of children from the same school ...

Terence Stamp, Screen Legend and 'Superman'’s Zod, Died at 87

This is Beirut 18/08 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Terence Stamp Cinema Culture Art Actor Heritage

The London actor from a working-class background, born on July 22, 1938, had his first breakthrough in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd. His performance as a dashing young sailor hanged for killing one of his crewmates earned him an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for Best New Actor. Carving out a niche for his alluring depictions of brooding ...

Looking for a New Look? Haircut Trends in 2025

Bélinda Ibrahim 17/08 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Haircut New Look Fashion IItalian Bob

It’s hard to walk through a lively neighborhood, grab a coffee or scroll Instagram without spotting this year’s defining styles. Just look around: fashion is on full display, joyful, diverse and often unexpected. Gone are the days of uniformity. Now, every woman is making the trend her own, adjusting it, reinventing it, claiming it. This ...

Word of the weekBrain Rot: The Word That Defines Our Digital Decay

Sana Richa Choucair 17/08 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Tik Tok Screen Focus

Have you ever tried to swipe a printed page like it’s a touchscreen? Then you may have had your first brain rot moment. The phrase exploded across social media in 2023 and 2024, describing what happens when online habits spill into everyday life. Whether it’s quoting TikTok slang in real conversations, interpreting real-world images like ...

Shakira’s Tour Is a Celebration of Power, Memory, and Style

This is Beirut 17/08 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Shakira Tour Music Culture Art Singer

When Shakira steps on stage, she curates an experience. Her wardrobe shifts from tribal-inspired jumpsuits to Versace’s gleaming couture, from Balenciaga’s street-savvy tees to Etro’s earthy textures. Each change is a chapter, each fabric a new expression of power. The stadium becomes a runway, but one charged with rhythm, sweat, and a ...

Story'The Lord of the Rings:' Novel of the Century… Typed with Two Fingers

Bélinda Ibrahim 16/08 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

The Lord of The Rings Tolkien USA Novel Story

We tend to picture The Lord of the Rings as a towering monument of modern fantasy, which it is, unquestionably. But what we often forget is that this masterpiece is not only the product of an Oxford professor’s fertile imagination and passion for ancient languages. It was forged through relentless, profoundly manual work, carried out in solitude ...

When Art Meets Innovation: Immersive Installations Inspire in Rio

This is Beirut 16/08 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Art Rio Culture Exhibtion

Since its debut in 2021, Rio Innovation Week has grown into one of the world’s largest gatherings on technology and entrepreneurship. In 2024, it draws more than 155,000 people over four days. In 2025, beyond its high-profile panels and investor showcases, the event surprises many with a striking artistic dimension. Inside Pier Mauá, organizers ...

Historic Swedish Church Being Moved as Giant Mine Casts Growing Shadow

This is Beirut 15/08 18:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Church Preservation Mining Sweden History Culture

A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings is to be moved from its longtime home in the Arctic town of Kiruna next week as part of a campaign to expand Europe's biggest underground mine. Kiruna Kyrka, a Swedish Lutheran church, dates from 1912. The 672 tonne, 40 metre (131 feet) high building will be moved ...

Brother Jean-Louis Mainguy Takes His Final Bow

Marilyne Jallad 15/08 18:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

culture Jean-Louis Mainguy Lebanon

The Franco-Lebanese interior architect, born in Beirut on October 11, 1953, has never ceased to surprise and inspire those around him, skillfully balancing multiple professional and human roles. A scenographer and the Honorary President of the Union of French Abroad (UFE), an association he devoted himself to as president from 2004 to 2015 to ...

SpotlightPompeii: The City That Survived Its Own End

Bélinda Ibrahim 15/08 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Pompeii Italy Vesuvius Archeology

It is hard to imagine Pompeii as anything other than silent stones locked under volcanic dust, a tragic instant frozen in time. Yet recent discoveries overturn that museum-like image: the city did not vanish in a single breath; it lived on in a clandestine and fragile existence beneath its own ashes. Behind cracked walls and half-faded mosaics, ...

Painting the Heat Away: Vienna Museum Uses Art to Cool Urban Spaces

This is Beirut 15/08 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Art Climate Vienna Museum Austria Culture

Equipped with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the center of Vienna. Thanks to his collective's art work covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colors, the ground temperature has dropped from 31C to 20C. Initiated by the museum showing the private ...