Tag: Beirut
Hamas and Hezbollah have held a meeting in Beirut
Published: Just now full screen Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is visiting Lebanon. Archive image. Photo: Dalati Nohra/AP/TT The leaders of the Hezbollah and Hamas movements held a meeting in Lebanon’s…
crisis-stricken Beirut airport expansion project sparks outcry
A project to build a new terminal at Beirut airport has raised an outcry in the country, as Lebanon is going through an unprecedented economic and financial crisis. Local and…
new demonstration in front of the Central Bank in Beirut
In Lebanon, the economic plunge seems endless, but society is no longer mobilizing. Several demonstrations this week have suddenly created a surprise. On Wednesday March 22, former soldiers, whose retirement…
The earthquake in Hatay was felt in 7 countries! In Lebanon, the people took to the streets in panic, the traffic was locked
Earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.4 and 5.8 that occurred in the Defne and Samandag districts of Hatay yesterday evening shook the Middle East and North Africa. The earthquake was…
No suspects under arrest in Beirut Port explosion case
In Lebanon, Chief Prosecutor of the Court of Appeals, Ghassan Oweidat, decided to release the detainees related to the explosion that occurred in Beirut Port on August 4, 2020, and…
the investigation into the explosion of the port of Beirut relaunched
After a thirteen-month suspension due to political interference, judge Tarek Bitar in charge of the investigation into the explosion at the port of Beirut in August 2020, relaunched the investigations…
Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, among the worst cities in terms of quality of life
More than three years after the start of the economic crisis, in October 2019, Lebanon still does not see the end of the tunnel and the daily life of the…
Literature: Sabyl GHOUSSOUB for “Beirut sur Seine” Goncourt Prize for high school students.
He says he was born in Beirut on a street in Paris. How to be here and there? Guest: Sabyl GHOUSSOUB, literary columnist, Franco-Lebanese photographer. On November 24, he received…
“Zionist culture”: the distressing “no waves” of the Goncourts in Beirut, by Abnousse Shalmani
The Goncourt Academy announces its latest selection each year in a different place. This year, to celebrate the Francophonie, they have chosen Beirut. Lebanon being in a tragic situation, both…
Beirut Books: how is the French language evolving in Lebanon?
How does French evolve in Lebanon in an Arabic-speaking environment with strong competition from English? A hard-hitting question as the new Book Fair takes place in Beirut with a hundred…