Bélinda Ibrahim, 30/05 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
La Dolce Vita Frederico Fellini Cinema Film Rome Culture
When it was released in 1960, La Dolce Vita caused a stir. The film disrupted cinema, unsettled Italian society, and changed how we understand what a film can express. Yet this masterpiece by Federico Fellini was not born out of serenity or control. It emerged from the tumult of late 1950s Rome, where nights seemed more intense than ...
This is Beirut, 30/05 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present. After a four-year renovation with a $70 million price tag, the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing comes ...
This is Beirut, 30/05 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Ana de Armas Actress Film Culture Art
Ana de Armas steps into the spotlight alongside Keanu Reeves in Ballerina, the highly anticipated spin-off of the John Wick saga, hitting theaters this Wednesday. The 37-year-old actress plays Eve Maccaro, a ballerina-turned-deadly assassin raised and trained by the Ruska Roma, a shadowy organized crime syndicate. Eve is on a relentless quest to ...
This is Beirut, 29/05 15:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fashion Luxury Dior Maria Grazia Chiuri Italy Culture
Dior announced Thursday that Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri was stepping down as artistic director of the French fashion house's women's collection after almost a decade on the job. Dior has boomed since Chiuri took over in 2016, becoming the second-biggest brand in the stable of luxury labels owned by French powerhouse LVMH. Her ...
This is Beirut, 29/05 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Sex and the City Just Like That Series Culture
Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte are back in heels and back in action for season three of And Just Like That, the follow-up to the iconic series Sex and the City. The show continues to make the case that “life doesn’t end after 50.” The emotional, professional, and romantic adventures of the three New Yorkers unfold across twelve new ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 29/05 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bérénice Racine France Paris Theater Culture
The play Bérénice at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien is co-directed by Marie Benati and Sanae Assif. Love exists in exile across ninety intense minutes, during which Racine’s unyielding verses intertwine with their poetic Arabic translation. The cast—Sanae Assif, Ghina Daou, Edouard Dossetto, Leslie Gruel, Adam Karoutchi, and Majd ...
This is Beirut, 28/05 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
Eurovision 2025 Music Television Streaming Record Audiences Culture
The Eurovision Song Contest confirmed its place as the world's biggest live televised music event, with 166 million viewers in 37 countries watching the 2025 edition, organizers said Wednesday. Three million more people watched this year's 69th edition in Basel, Switzerland, than last year's contest in Malmo, Sweden, said the European ...
This is Beirut, 28/05 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Spotify Daniel Ek Music Streaming IA Sweden Culture
Artificial intelligence will encourage more people to create music in the future and is not a threat to the industry, the co-founder and CEO of streaming giant Spotify said. Artists using machine-learning tools to produce music have given rise to concerns about whether AI-generated music - even entirely fake artists - could one day replace ...
This is Beirut, 28/05 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Shakespeare Iran Theater Culture Art Tehran
An Iranian director is bringing a jolt of energy to King Lear, staging the Shakespearean tragedy in Persian in Tehran with electrifying rock music and dazzling lights to draw in younger crowds. In Iran, artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and playwrights constantly walk a fine line to avoid censorship of content considered inappropriate by ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 27/05 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Georges Perec Washing Machine Writer Literature Poet Culture
A drum, a muffled sound, cycles, programs. A round door swings open onto the world’s laundry. A washing machine, yes – but for Georges Perec, it’s never just an appliance. It’s a trigger – his engine for writing. In the workshop of this master of literary constraints, even the most ordinary object can become a source of invention. ...
This is Beirut, 27/05 16:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Suntwoman Film Sarah Lezito Entertainment France Culture
When Sarah Lezito began messing around with motorbikes at 13 she never dreamed that one day she would become the stunt double of some of Hollywood's biggest stars. The French winemaker's daughter has stood in for Scarlett Johansson - twice - on Avengers 2 and Black Widow and appeared in a dozen films including The Batman. The 32-year-old is one ...
This is Beirut, 27/05 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Literature Salman Rushdie Justice US London Culture
Salman Rushdie said Monday he was "pleased" with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022. "I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and hopefully he uses it to reflect upon his deeds," Rushdie told BBC radio in an interview. Hadi Matar was sentenced to 25 ...