This Is Beirut 2024-08-20 11:49 - Reading : less than a minute
The Super Blue Moon lit up the sky over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Monday night. This rare celestial event, which combines a supermoon and a blue moon, typically occurs once every 10 years.
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-08-20 10:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In recent days, a number of Hezbollah sympathizers have impertinently mentioned demographics in Lebanon, with the sole purpose of embarrassing Christians in unprecedented ways. In this context, the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al Akhbar published inaccurate figures, thereby stating that Lebanese Christians now make up less than 20% of ...
David Hale 2024-08-19 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The people of the Middle East, particularly Lebanese, Israelis, Palestinians, and their near neighbors are understandably living on a knife's edge of uncertainty about what's next ever since the killing of Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, 2024. It was a humiliation for the Iranians to have an honored terrorist guest assassinated in a ...
Fady Noun 2024-08-19 12:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A delegation representing the families of the victims of the August 4, 2020, Beirut port explosion is en route to the Vatican, according to informed sources. They will be received on August 26 by Pope Francis and Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The group consists of approximately twenty people, including spokespersons for the victims' ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 14:57 - Reading : less than a minute
The UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) announced that three peacekeeping soldiers on patrol were slightly injured on Sunday morning when an explosion occurred near their vehicle in the vicinity of Yarine, in southern Lebanon. In a statement, UNIFIL indicated that "all the peacekeeping soldiers who were on patrol returned safely to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 13:19 - Reading : less than a minute
The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut, Elias Audi, pointed out that the leaders “must rally around the idea of the State and work towards building it, putting the welfare and salvation of Lebanon as their primary goal.” During the Sunday Mass at the Saint George Cathedral in Beirut, he considered that if the leaders love their country and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-18 13:03 - Reading : less than a minute
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai stated, "We have received letters from (inhabitants of) southern Lebanon describing their catastrophic situation due to the war. In front of this dark tunnel, our people are divided: some have been forced to flee, while others have remained on their land to preserve their livelihoods, and this group challenges all ...
Marc Saikali 2024-08-18 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
This sentence was once scrawled along the road to Buenos Aires airport. At that time, amid a crisis, Argentina was experiencing a massive wave of emigration. In Lebanon, innovation is in full swing. While the last Lebanese hasn't quite left yet (but we’re getting there), the power has been shut off. Today, the state’s electricity, or ...
Yara Germany 2024-08-17 18:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Doctor Elie Haddad answers three questions about the Mpox epidemic that are on everyone's lips.
This Is Beirut 2024-08-16 18:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati responded to the recent accusations made by Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces. In a press conference earlier today, Geagea accused the government of "high treason" regarding recent events on the country’s southern border. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/lebanon/282488"] The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-16 15:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Ati stressed that “the security and stability of Lebanon is an Egyptian and Arab interest, which we are committed to maintaining.” After meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Friday, he conveyed “a message of support and solidarity from the Egyptian people to the Lebanese people and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-16 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea stressed that “the government must take a stance in the supreme Lebanese interest" instead of acting as a mailbox for Hezbollah and echoing its position. In a press conference on Friday, he said, “We do not want a civil war, but we want to present things as they should be,” revealing that “Amos ...