Search : 500 result(s)
Storms in Lebanon: Why We Name Them, Why We Fear Them, Why We Wait for Them
Makram Haddad 12/12 09:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Marc Wehaïbé Storm Lebanon Winter
Adam, Farah, Norma, Zeina, Yohan, Oscar… In Lebanon, winter storms have taken on the appearance of characters. They pop up on weather maps, scroll across TV tickers and flood Instagram stories, as if winter too had its own cast. Yet behind the folklore of first names and the debates about “one storm too many” lies a much more serious ...
LAU Medical Center – Rizk Hospital: A Century of Medicine at the Heart of Beirut
Makram Haddad 09/12 15:10 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
LAU Lebanon Achrafieh Hospital Rizk Hospital
A hundred years ago, a young surgeon just back from Paris put up a sign near the Nasra tram stop in Sodeco: “Dr. Toufic Rizk Clinic.” Twelve beds, three nurses, one passion: practicing modern surgery in a Lebanon still finding its way. At the time, no one could have imagined that this small beginning would grow into a full hospital in 1957 ...
Teetering on the Edge: Escalation Along the Lebanon–Israel Border
Amal Chmouny 08/12 14:00 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel United States Hezbollah
The Israeli-Lebanese border is now one of the Middle East’s most volatile fronts, where a “low-intensity” conflict feels less like crisis management and more like a dress rehearsal for an imminent war. U.S. and Israeli officials are no longer debating whether fighting will erupt again, but how quickly and extensively it could escalate, ...
The Next Israel–Hezbollah War Could Be Inevitable — and Crippling for Hezbollah
Salam El Zaatari 04/12 09:00 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Hezbollah War Peace
When Israeli jets struck Beirut’s Haret Hreik on 23 November 2025 and killed Haitham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff and the man responsible for rebuilding its shattered military infrastructure, the message was unmistakable. Israel was not simply targeting a militant; it was signaling that the post-war “ceasefire” is dead, that ...
Holy See Delivers Speech at the Presidential Palace
This is Beirut 30/11 18:25 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
“Mr. President, Distinguished Civil and Religious Authorities, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Ladies and Gentlemen, Blessed are the peacemakers! It is a great joy for me to meet with you and to visit this land where “peace” is much more than just a word, for here peace is a desire and a vocation; it is a gift and a work in ...
Pope Leo’s Speech During Youth Meeting in Bkerke
This is Beirut 01/12 19:10 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Dear young people of Lebanon, “assalamu lakum!” (peace be with you!) This greeting of the Risen Jesus (cf. Jn 20:19) sustains the joy of our meeting. The enthusiasm we feel in our hearts expresses God’s loving closeness, which brings us together as brothers and sisters to share our faith in him and our communion with one ...
Could the IMF’s debt plan for Lebanon unintentionally bolster Hezbollah?
Ian Talley 09/12 17:50 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
Lebanon International Monetary Fund Hezbollah Amal Banque du Liban
The International Monetary Fund risks unintentionally reviving a war-weakened Hezbollah by insisting Lebanon push heavier losses onto the banking sector than critics say is necessary — a move they argue would entrench the cash economy that Iran’s terror-designated proxy thrives on. At issue is how the IMF wants Lebanon’s ...
Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Lebanon’s Livestock Under Pressure as a Health Emergency Takes Hold
Makram Haddad 17/12 08:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Europe Middle East Foot-and-mouth disease
Nearly two-thirds of the country’s cattle are believed to be infected with a fast-spreading viral fever that slashes milk production and devastates farmers. Veterinarians describe the outbreak as “extremely dangerous but not transmissible to humans”, yet it lays bare the weaknesses of Lebanon’s preventive systems—at a time when another ...
Lebanon Must Pick the Abraham Accords over the Muslim Brotherhood
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 15/12 14:25 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah Abraham Accords Israel Iran Turkey
Lebanon must pick a side in the regional map of alliances. One seeks peace, prosperity and higher standards of living for all and consists of the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Bahrain, and Morocco, enshrined by the Abraham Accords. The rival alliance—Qatar, its ATM, and Turkey, its NATO muscle, as well as Syria, Algeria, and Tunisia—dismisses ...
The Path Is Made by Walking: How Each Step Creates the Way
David Sahyoun 10/12 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Path Desire Culture Way Culture
Within this framework, the statement can be read as an ethic of movement, desire, and fruitful incompleteness. It suggests that truth is not a fixed object, but a direction; not a trophy, but a process. Likewise, failing is not a mistake, but the condition of one who is on the journey. As Franck Pavloff, French writer and psychologist, puts it in ...
The Damask Rose, Defiant Memory of a Wounded Syria
Bélinda Ibrahim 09/12 18:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Damascus Syria Damask Rose Flower
South of Damascus, each spring returns with a scent that war could not wipe away. In the fields of Al Marah, the same quiet wonder unfolds again. The Damask rose blooms with stubborn grace. As every year, the steady ritual of renewal stirs a sense of hope, and Roula Ali Adeeb walks the rose-a tad tweaked but close lined paths, gathering each ...
Law 174 On Standby, Lungs In Distress: Lebanon On The Brink Of Apnea
Makram Haddad 25/11 09:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Lebanon MOPH Rakan Nassereddine Law 174
The conference room of the Ministry of Public Health filled up early in the morning. Blue and white banners, printed slogans, serious faces. Under the slogan “With Every Breath… You Lose a Breath” – “With each breath, you lose a breath” – the ministry, in partnership with the National Committee for the ...
Silence in Psychoanalysis: What the Absence of Words Reveals
David Sahyoun 17/12 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Silence Therapy Words
Some silences are deafening, heavy, cutting through, and freezing the space around them. Others, by contrast, open a gap, suspending the flow of speech like a hand gently soothing a wound. In psychoanalysis, silence is not the enemy of discourse; on the contrary, it is its very condition, sometimes even its hidden engine. Silence permeates ...
Financial Gap Threatens Depositors Amid Government Inaction
Nadia al-Hallak for Houna Loubnan 13/12 20:12 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Banks Central Bank of Lebanon Banque du Liban Middle East
Amid ongoing government debates over the draft law addressing the financial shortfall and the fate of deposits, concern is growing within economic and banking circles over the plan’s potential direction. Each new draft leak highlights a deep disagreement—over how losses should be allocated and the extent of the burden the state must shoulder ...
No More Free Passes: U.S. Ties Security Aid to Lebanese Action
Amal Chmouny 11/12 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanese Army Lebanon US congress NDAA Hezbollah Disarmament
The U.S. Congress has sent a clear, stern message to Beirut that Washington’s support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is no longer a blank check. The latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), up for a vote in the House of Representatives, imposes new conditions and restrictions on U.S. aid to the Lebanese army, ...
The Layers of Pope Leo XIV’s Inaugural Journey
Charles Chartouni 01/12 15:32 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Lebanon Turkey Vatican Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip is striking and prompts a closer look at what motivated his choice of destinations. To those versed in Church history, his decision to travel first to Turkey and Lebanon may appear obvious, but it remains thrilling. Contemporary Turkey harbors the most important venues of paleo-Christian history. Turkey ...
Seeing Is Believing: Army Unveils Realities South of the Litani
Natasha Metni Torbey 16/12 17:23 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Hezbollah Israel Middle East United Nations
On Monday in southern Litani, the Lebanese army went beyond a routine field visit, staging a carefully orchestrated tour for its ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, and military attachés to showcase its operations. From the sector command in the southern city of Tyre, the army’s commander-in-chief, General Rodolph Haykal, outlined to foreign ...
Lebanon Debate: Gap Law Risks Bankrupting Banks, Wiping out Depositors
This is Beirut 12:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Banks Central Bank of Lebanon Lebanon Banque du Liban Nawaf Salam
The following article, originally written on Thursday by Lebanon Debate, is reproduced here in full to highlight their analysis of the proposed financial gap bill and its potential impact on depositors and the Lebanese banking sector: “Once again, Nawaf Salam’s government is rushing to pass the financial gap law before the end of the year, ...
Basketball – 2027 World Cup Qualifiers: Lebanon Survives a Scare, Khayat Delivers the Dagger
Makram Haddad 28/11 08:40 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Qatar Basketball World Cup 2027 qualifiers
In Doha, the script had everything to become the perfect trap. Facing Lebanon was a Qatari team already qualified by default for the 2027 World Cup as host nation, but in full “resurgence” and determined to send a message to the rest of Asia. Opposite them, a Lebanese team favored on paper, 30th in the FIBA rankings, with a new coach on the ...
Artificial Womb: Is Japan Really on the Brink of Birth Outside the Human Body?
Bélinda Ibrahim 17/12 11:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Artificial wombs Science Japan Gestation
Since the summer of 2025, a series of announcements from Japan have set the global media landscape alight. Researchers are said to have developed an artificial womb capable of faithfully recreating the conditions of human gestation. Some headlines already evoke embryos carried to term outside the body, a redefinition of motherhood, or even the end ...
Basket – 2027 World Cup: Qatar Break the Streak, Lebanon Fall Back into Their Old Ways
Makram Haddad 01/12 14:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Qatar Basket-ball World Cup
On Sunday evening at the Nouhad Nawfal Sports Complex, everything seemed aligned for another quiet night: a full arena, a fiery atmosphere, an opponent already automatically qualified for the 2027 World Cup and presented as the group’s small underdog. Lebanon started seriously, put the ball inside, found rhythm in transition and immediately ...
Football – Liverpool: The Fall of King Salah at Anfield
Pierre Daccache 09/12 11:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Saudi Arabia Mohamed Salah Football Liverpool Arne Slot
There are phrases that fall like bombs. When Mohamed Salah hints that he has been “thrown under the bus,” it is no longer just the frustration of an unhappy player. It is a signal of rupture. A message launched in the full glare of the media. And at that moment, at Liverpool, no one could pretend anymore that everything would still be settled ...
From Rockets to Reels: Iran and Hezbollah’s Fight for Survival through Propaganda
Salam El Zaatari 17/12 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah Lebanon Israel Palestine Iran
After the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah war, Iran and its main regional proxy faced a grim reality. Hezbollah survived the war, but its top leadership had been assassinated, much of its arsenal destroyed, thousands of its fighters killed, and it was forced to retreat from south of the Litani. In response, Iran and Hezbollah have shifted from kinetic ...
BDL: IMF Concerns on Financial Gap Law Are Risky and Inconsistent
This is Beirut 14:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Central Bank of Lebanon International Monetary Fund Lebanon Banks Banque du Liban
The Central Bank of Lebanon (BDL) issued observations regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s recent comments on the financial gap bill. BDL described the IMF’s remarks as risky and inconsistent with accounting and financial standards, noting that there is no historical precedent in a systemic crisis where a state first erodes the ...
Beirut Sports Festival: Karim Andari Invests 4 Billion LBP to Support 80 Students Through “Loubnaniyoun”
Makram Haddad 11/12 16:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Sports Beirut Sports Festival Karim Andari
Sports are stepping into the classroom. At the Qubic Center in Horch Tabet, the president of the Beirut Sports Festival, Karim Andari, and the president of the association “Loubnaniyoun,” Nadine Daher, formalized an unprecedented partnership: 4 billion Lebanese pounds granted to the NGO to cover school fees for 80 students from various regions ...
Lebanon’s Collective Trauma Needs Peace
Salam El Zaatari 11/12 15:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Lebanon Syria Hezbollah Sunnis Divisions Shia
There was an unmistakable irony on Monday as Lebanon’s “Sunni street” marked the first anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime. The same community that has condemned its Shia counterparts for venerating Iran’s rulers now engages in the same political canonization, this time for Syria’s new leaders. The motorbike convoys ...
Basketball – Lebanon Beaten at Home: a Bump In the Road or A Real Warning Sign?
Makram Haddad 04/12 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Qatar Basketball World Cup Qualifications
For several years, playing Lebanon on its home floor was almost an impossible mission. Since the blowout loss to South Korea on February 23, 2019, Zouk Mikaël had become a true fortress: ten straight qualification wins, across all FIBA competitions. Iraq, Bahrain twice, Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Syria, the ...
Who Really Defeated ISIS in Syria?
Mario Chartouni 09/12 20:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Damascus European Union Washington Russia Syria ISIS
In the narrative promoted by Moscow and Damascus, Russia and Bashar al-Assad’s regime are credited with delivering the decisive blow against ISIS in Syria. This account frames Russia’s military intervention, which began in September 2015, as the turning point in the fight against the terrorist group. Yet, a closer look at the data paints a ...
Syria's Sharaa Vows to Promote Coexistence, Reconciliation One Year after Assad's Ousting
This is Beirut 08/12 20:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa vowed to usher in an era of justice and coexistence a year after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, with tens of thousands taking to the streets to mark the anniversary. Sharaa's Islamist-led alliance launched a lightning offensive in late November last year and took Damascus on December 8, bringing a sudden ...
I Didn’t Choose to Love Fayrouz
Yara Germany 21/11 08:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
I didn’t choose my name, and I didn’t choose to love Fayrouz. In our home, loving Fayrouz was a heritage, a love passed down like a family secret. My name, borrowed from one of her songs—as my father proudly reminded me—bound me to her in a way I couldn’t escape. And I knew it from the very start, from the moment I could speak: “I am ...