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Arts & Culture - Musical tackles Lebanon emigration woes
By Rouba KABBARA
Moved by the emigration of her two sons, theatre director Nidal al-Ashkar decided to highlight on stage the plight of thousands of youths heading abroad to escape Lebanon's political upheavals.Full Story>> |
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Arts & Culture - In Beirut, the « Yellow House » will turn into a museum to remind people of the horrors delivered by the civil war
The sandbags, the embrasures where snipers used to hide and bullets multi-holed front wall remind that the “yellow house”, a building in the center of Beirut, served as a deadly ambush during the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war. Today, it...Full Story>> |
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Arts & Culture - Beirut's architectural heritage erased by modern towers
By Rima Abushakra
The Ottoman-style mansions, with Venetian windows, arches and lavish gardens that once epitomised Beirut are being levelled one after the other as high-rises mushroom across the capital. Local associations work for the protection of old buildings,...Full Story>> |
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Arts & Culture - TV satire lets Lebanese vent political frustrations
By Lamia RADI
Puppet shows, political parodies, ridiculing politicians -- in a Lebanon faced with bombings, violent clashes, and political conflicts, it's better to laugh than cry.Full Story>> |
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Arts & Culture - Lebanon Rocks! A Small Rock Story Made in Lebanon
By Alia El Kaïssi
On September 10, Lebanese band The New Government (TNG for the fans) and the Lebanese action group Lebanese Underground played live on an RFI broadcast. A moment of true bliss according to messages posted on the TNG website. The band just released...Full Story>> |
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Sports - This autumn, Ramadan made it hard on sportsmen and trainers
By Mhamad Ezzedine
This year, just like every Ramadan, Lebanese athletes were due to combine religious convictions with sports. This year’s sacred month in Islam, during which the believers should fast from sunrise to sunset, came in a critical training period...Full Story>> |
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Health - Obesity: a globe trotter?
By Yara Sfeir
Is Obesity a problem only found in the United States and Europe or does it also exist in Lebanon? What percentage of the population is obese in Lebanon? What about in the rest of the Middle East? Recent research conducted in the region reveals...Full Story>> |
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Health - Alzheimer : families also need help
By Élodie Morel Lebbos
September 21st marked the 15th world day against Alzheimer’s. In Lebanon there are around 35000 people suffering from this pathological disease which affects around 1% of the population and is still locally considered a taboo. Since 2003, a...Full Story>> |
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Social - Ramadan drummer struggles with changing times in Sidon
By Mahmoud Zayyat
For the past 37 years, Mohammed Fannas's "tambour" drum has woken up Muslims of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon during Ramadan for their last meal before a day of fasting from sunrise. But now Fannas feels endangered and faces...Full Story>> |
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Entertainment - 'Invincible' Palestinians rap from Lebanon refugee camps
By Rima Abushakra
Teenage rappers Yassim Kassem and Mohammed Turek have no qualms about upsetting politicians or clerics when they sing of inter-Palestinian violence and the daily hardship of life in the refugee camps.Full Story>> |
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