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Cultural Heritage - In Beirut, Vintage Wine Cellar showcases the great French Vineyards As the French Haute Cuisine Week (sponsored by Gabriel Bocti sal), ended in late October, Vintage Wine Cellar boutique invited five oenologist as well as owners of the most reputed Chateaux of France, to present their finest wine ranges in Beirut....Full Story>> |
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Cultural Heritage - Don't mess with our hommus, warn Lebanese A battle over hommus and tabbouleh is shaping up between Lebanon and Israel -- two neighbours still technically at war -- with efforts underway to clearly identify such dishes as exclusively Lebanese.Full Story>> |
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Cultural Heritage - Beirut between the lines – the city will be the World Book Capital for the year 2009
By Élodie Morel Lebbos
Next year, Beirut will turn a new page and become the World Book Capital 2009, a prestigious title that the UNESCO grants every year to a new city in the world. During the whole year 2009, Beirut, as well as all the regions of Lebanon, will enjoy...Full Story>> |
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Cultural Heritage - Beirut to Singapore, 9 projects win prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A public square in Beirut, a skyscraper in Singapore and a renovated ancient city in Yemen are among the nine winners of the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which celebrate the mundane to the magnificent around the...Full Story>> |
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Cultural Heritage - For Zajal, think hip-hop, rap and toasting : Poetry as performance art Lebanon’s Ghada Shbeir won the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards this June and, with them, the West discovered Muwashshah, an Arab versified musical form that was previously known just to a handful of scholars. The Palestinian singer Reem Kilani...Full Story>> |
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