This is Beirut 29/07 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Festival Greece Culture Art Music Dance
It's midnight in the Aegean Sea, but on the Greek island of Ikaria, in the courtyard of the church of St. Elijah, the revelry is barely getting started. Dozens of dancers and scores of onlookers, including many tourists, are attending the local panigiri, a folk celebration that is an integral part of centuries-old summer traditions in villages ...
This is Beirut 29/07 11:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A rising tide of artificial intelligence (AI) bands is ushering in a new era where work will be scarcer for musicians. Whether it's Velvet Sundown's 1970s-style rock or country music projects Aventhis and The Devil Inside, bands whose members are pure AI creations are seeing more than a million plays on streaming giant Spotify. No major streaming ...
This is Beirut 29/07 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Exhibition Beirut Culture Art Painting Artist
In Boundless Ties, an exhibition curated by Dr. Tony Karam and on view from July 29 to September 9 at the Smallville Hotel’s main lobby, Lebanese-Canadian artist Nayla Kilzi invites art lovers into a vivid exploration of identity, memory, and human connection. Through her striking Connection series, Kilzi weaves a visual narrative that spans ...
Marilyne Jallad 28/07 17:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
“Expats, I adore you! I was so happy to see you again and spend time together, especially after the summer of 2024, when war was raging between Israel and Hezbollah and we were overwhelmed by bad news and constant bombardment,” says Kareen, whom we met in downtown Beirut. Still, she adds a note of frustration. “It was really ...
This is Beirut 28/07 16:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The party is in Kenya, but the vibe is distinctly Americana: a sea of cowboy hats and boots with a soundtrack of whisky-soaked tales about heartbreak and good old boys. Kenya has become the unlikely home of a growing country music scene, possibly the biggest in Africa, as testified by the thousands line-dancing in a field in the capital Nairobi ...
This is Beirut 28/07 14:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palaeontology Art Belgium Netherlands Culture
With her clear blue eyes and slightly nervous gaze, the reconstructed bust of Mos'anne - a woman who lived around 10,500 years ago - is uncannily lifelike. Reborn via a close partnership between science and art, Mos'anne's bust was created at Belgium's Ghent University as part of a project to explore how the region's last ...
This is Beirut 28/07 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Box Office Movie Pedro Pascal Actor Culture
The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Disney's hotly anticipated reboot of the Marvel Comics superhero franchise, conquered the North American weekend box office, earning $118 million and sidelining Superman, industry estimates showed Sunday. Fantastic Four — starring actor-of-the-moment Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Emmy winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach ...
This is Beirut 28/07 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tom Lehrer Satirist Music Culture Art Heritage
Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed humorist and pianist whose satirical songs made him one of America's favorite prophets of doom before he retreated to academia, has died, US media reported Sunday. He was 97. The singer-songwriter died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his friend David Herder said, according to The New York ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 27/07 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Paris Movies Fashion Thrift Shop TV series
They’ve graced film sets, stood under spotlights, and sometimes even starred in iconic scenes… Today, these movie costumes hang from the racks of a Paris thrift shop. Welcome behind the scenes of a wardrobe like no other. La Loge Store is located in Paris’ 9th arrondissement at 17 rue Condorcet. It is a discreet boutique that draws fashion ...
Sana Richa Choucair 27/07 18:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Lebanese University WE4LEAD Gender equality Erasmus
Two Years After Its Launch in 2023, Where Does the Euro-Mediterranean Project Women’s Empowerment for Leadership and Equity in Higher Education Institutions (WE4LEAD) Stand? The project’s mission is to increase the representation of women in key academic leadership roles by transforming institutional practices and fostering a genuine culture ...
Sana Richa Choucair 27/07 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Debt crisis, economic crisis, crisis of confidence in currencies: these expressions now dominate official discourse. Crises seem to multiply endlessly, from climate to democracy, from housing to public health. “Crisis” has become the keyword of our times. But what are we really saying? If everything is a crisis, does anything truly stand ...
This is Beirut 27/07 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cominc-Con Festival Pop Ryan Gosling Cinema Culture
Ryan Gosling brought the house down at Comic-Con on Saturday, offering fans a vertigo-inducing sneak peek at his new space thriller Project Hail Mary. In the film, Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a mild-mannered science teacher unexpectedly recruited for a desperate interstellar mission to save Earth from a solar catastrophe. “He’s an ordinary ...