This is Beirut 14/04 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Under the patronage of the Ministries of Information and Economy and Trade, and in the presence of distinguished officials, including the Director General of the Ministry of Economy, Dr. Mohammad Abou Haidar, the President of the Beirut Order of Physicians, Dr. Youssef Bakhache, several heads of health professions unions and the Health Order ...
This is Beirut 14/04 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Minecraft Movie easily held on to the top spot in North American theaters this weekend with estimated ticket sales of a solid $80.6 million, analysts said Sunday. That was roughly half the total of its huge opening last weekend. But with $281 million in domestic ticket sales to date, along with $269 million internationally, Minecraft has set ...
Madeleine Cadoux 14/04 13:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa literature France Peru
Born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru, Vargas Llosa left his homeland in the 1950s, believing that true literary ambition could only flourish elsewhere. He arrived in Paris in 1959 at the age of 23 with his first wife, Julia Urquidi, who would later inspire Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. He found a city pulsing with intellectual energy—where Sartre ...
This is Beirut 14/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Osaka Japan Expo 2025 Exhibition Art Culture
A multi-eyed mascot, a vast wooden Grand Ring, 160 countries and regions strutting their stuff, and robots and sushi galore: Expo 2025 began on Sunday in Osaka, Japan. The World Expo is held every five years in different global locations. Here are five things to know about this event, which runs until mid-October. Grand Ring Encircling dozens of ...
This is Beirut 13/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Disney Premiere Paris Disneyland Culture Art
Disneyland Paris will open to the public on May 15 the newly redesigned “World Premiere,” a fully reimagined building and the first step in the massive renovation of its second park, Walt Disney Studios, which is set to double in size. The American group The Walt Disney Company announced in 2018 a large-scale expansion and transformation plan ...
Amine Jules Iskandar 13/04 11:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Maronite mummies were discovered in the Qadisha Valley on July 13, 1990, by a team of speleologists from the Group for Subterranean Studies and Researches of Lebanon (GERSL). The team included Pierre Abi Aoun, Fadi Baroudi, Antoine Ghaouch and Paul Khawaja. After two years of exploration and excavation in the Assi cave, located in the Hadat ...
This is Beirut 13/04 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Britain France Cartier Jewellery Exhibition Culture
A spellbinding exhibition of Cartier jewels, many never seen before in public, is opening in London tracing the history of the luxury French design house beloved by the rich and famous, from Queen Elizabeth II to Rihanna. For the first time in three decades, the V&A museum is showing a retrospective of some of Cartier's most iconic ...
This is Beirut 12/04 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The California desert was buzzing Friday as the premier music festival Coachella got underway, with Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott set to helm day one's main stage. Thousands of music fans traversed the sprawling grounds whipping paper fans and wielding parasols, as temperatures cracked the 100-degree Fahrenheit mark (37.8 degrees Celsius). That ...
This is Beirut 12/04 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Series Art Film Psychology Thriller
After 20 years saving lives in the title role of Grey’s Anatomy, actress Ellen Pompeo makes a dramatic career shift in Good American Family, a tense series inspired by true events where she plays a disturbing adoptive mother — a “big challenge” she had long been hoping for. Already airing in the United States since March and arriving ...
This is Beirut 12/04 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Censorship Cannes Film Cinema Art
The Iranian directors of the film My Favorite Cake, praised in both France and the United States, have been sentenced to suspended prison terms, according to an independent legal website and a human rights NGO. Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, already recognized in 2020 for Ballad of a White Cow, were prosecuted for “propaganda against ...
This is Beirut 11/04 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sweden's recycling centers are overflowing with clothes after an EU-wide ban this year on throwing away textiles, leaving overwhelmed municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility. "It's a huge amount coming in every day. It's been crazy, it's a huge increase," said Brian Kelly, secretary general of the Artikel2 charity ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 11/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Caroline Torbey Lebanon Bullying Schools Theatre
On Saturday, April 12, Théâtre Monnot in Ashrafieh will raise its curtain on Ramdam au Gymnase, an original and innovative creation that delicately addresses the issue of school bullying. This play, Caroline Torbey’s first venture into dramatic writing, could not have chosen a more relevant subject, in a world where social media often ...