‘We are the event. We are the headline.’
BEIRUT — On the other side of an open window it’s a quiet Easter Monday evening. Within, a blizzard of ideas, authors and book titles swirl about independent filmmaker Alaa Mansour — Gore...
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Israel's foreign minister says visit to Saudi Arabia 'on the table'
JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday held out the prospect of a future visit to Saudi Arabia and said at least one more Arab country would normalize ties with Israel this...
19 April 2023
The rise and fall of Beirut’s ‘Baladiye’
In the gray world of Lebanon’s ongoing political and economic crises, Beirut’s Weygand Street feels illusory. Despite the pink tabebuia trees lining the street, releasing their fragrant scent of...
Stéphanie KHOURI, 19 April 2023
Free access to National Museum of Beirut from April 19-25
BEIRUT — To mark World Heritage Day on April 18, outgoing Lebanese Minister of Culture Mohammad Mortada announced Wednesday that entrance to the National Museum of Beirut will be free from April 19...
19 April 2023
General Security will no longer take passport applications on Fridays
BEIRUT — The General Security (GS) announced Wednesday that it will stop receiving biometric passport applications on Fridays until further notice. It did not clarify the reasons behind this...
19 April 2023
Young man with autism missing in Cola
BEIRUT — A 22-year-old man, Abdel Moneim Dahan, went missing on Wednesday at dawn, in the Cola neighborhood near ‘Hamza’ mosque in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported. Dahan has...
19 April 2023
Syrian Kurds seek talks with Damascus amid regional detente
Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration said it was ready for talks with Damascus, as the government's ties with Arab states thaw more than a decade after the country's war broke out....
19 April 2023
Parliament undermines new procurement law
While Parliament’s primary purpose was to extend the municipalities’ term of office during Tuesday’s session, the legislature approved a bill seriously amending the new public procurement code (law...
Phillipe Hage Boutros, 19 April 2023
More than a hundred kilos of spoiled meat seized in South Lebanon
BEIRUT — The Consumer Protection Directorate on Wednesday seized 117 kilograms of spoiled meat in South Lebanon and shut down the butchery selling it, while its owner was arrested, the state-run...
19 April 2023
Omari Spellman receives honorary citizenship, joins Lebanese team for FIBA World Cup
It took three months to solve the constitutional puzzle that would grant Omari Spellman Lebanese citizenship. Spellman was scouted by the Lebanese Basketball Federation in October 2022. The...
19 April 2023
Delayed municipal elections expose cabinet and parliament
After a bill was passed in Parliament on Tuesday, the terms of municipal councils and mukhtars has officially been extended until May 31, 2024. The result of a meeting that was held out of...
Yara ABI AKL, 19 April 2023
Thousands flee 'bodies on the streets' in battle-scarred Khartoum
Thousands of residents on Wednesday fled Sudan's capital, where witnesses said bodies lay in the street from fighting between the army and paramilitaries after a 24-hour truce failed to take hold....
19 April 2023
Israel arrests Palestinian teen over Jerusalem shooting
Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank arrested a Palestinian teenager suspected of wounding two Israelis in a shooting in annexed east Jerusalem, the army said Wednesday....
19 April 2023
Iranian filmmaker recounts torture to 'unsettle' abusers
One man mimes his bones being broken; a woman recounts her surrender to religious brainwashing; and a third man replicates his confinement in a tiny prison cell. With his...
19 April 2023
Increased minimum wage, municipality mandate extension, free museum entrances: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. During its meeting yesterday, the caretaker cabinet approved supplements for public employees and military personnel, raised...
19 April 2023
US, UK issue new sanctions over Lebanese businessman's Hezbollah support
The UK government said Tuesday it had frozen the assets of a Lebanese businessman suspected of financing Hezbollah, while US authorities announced action against a network allegedly helping the...
