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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sana Richa Choucair 17/08 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is Beirut 16/08 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
This is Beirut 15/08 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Internet Technology Children AI USA Culture
YouTube has started testing an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to identify the age of its users in the United States, in an effort to better protect minors from content and online habits considered inappropriate for them. "This technology will allow us to infer a user’s age and use that signal independently of the date of birth listed on the ...