BEIRUT: The lead singer of local rock band Mother Mantra paused between songs with an unusual request Saturday night at the group’s debut concert at the...
BEIRUT: Some 2,200 years ago, Carthaginian military commander Hannibal – who some maintain is of Phoenician descent – set out to defeat the Romans...
BEIRUT: Ten of the city’s yoga studios will join forces Sept. 20 for the first ever Beirut Yoga Festival. Organizers will host the one-day event at...
BEIRUT: A London-based website has become one of the most indispensable platforms for young Lebanese designers to build an international audience for their...
BEIRUT: The New York-based Lebanese designer Reem Acra will fulfill her promise to help develop the Middle East’s fashion industry as one of the latest...
BEIRUT: There was nothing simple about the events that resulted in 13-year-old Reine Francis realizing her dream of taking dance classes abroad. It took seven...
BEIRUT: After the death of her husband, Libi Khan, then 20, left her home in Jassour, Bangladesh, her parents and her 3-month-old baby to work in Lebanon as a...
BEIRUT: Bird-watching ranks as one of the country’s most popular pastimes, if you count those looking through the sight of a rifle. “Birds are...
BEIRUT: Some places, whether one has been there or not, naturally lead the mind to images of wetsuits and waves: think southern California, for example, the...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s nightlife industry is rich with creative mixologists – evidenced each year by hordes of young people entering their signature...
BEIT MERY, Lebanon: Lebanese soprano Magida al-Roumi will visit Jordan’s Zaatari camp, the second-largest organized site for Syrians refugees, in...
BEIRUT: The Tourism Ministry has announced a third season of the Lebanese Water Festival, an eight-week series of activities and seaside shows highlighting...
BEIRUT: The girlish voice of U.K. pop singer Ellie Goulding cut over the thousands of wailing fans crammed into the Beirut International Exhibition &...
BEIRUT: It is perhaps the biggest contradiction of the holy month: Many who fast during Ramadan end up gaining weight. “When you don’t eat all...
DEIR AL-QAMAR, Lebanon: “The view isn’t so great now, but in the morning ...” The hotel manager, Nadim Zoghbi, trailed off as he showed us...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese are readying themselves for a little rest and relaxation away from home as the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a busy travel season for the region,...
BEIRUT: The city’s food and beverage offerings are a pesky subject to document as Beirut’s hip – and foreigner-rich – neighborhoods...
BEIRUT: The buzz around haute couture fashion week has died down in Paris, but fancy dresses are still aflutter on catwalks in Italy. The capital’s Alta...
BEIRUT: Every review and round-up article coming out of Paris’ haute couture fashion week, which came to a close Friday, contained an obligatory aside:...
BEIRUT: Relatively new to the haute couture shows in Paris, Zuhair Murad lit up the Palais de Beaux Arts with a kaleidoscope of winter couture sparkling with...
BEIRUT: Designers across the program, from Dior to Versace, approached this season’s haute couture, their most expensive and critics would say excessive...
BEIRUT: Lebanese designer Tony Ward Tuesday took aim at his ever-diversifying clientele with an equally varied line of haute couture based on the contrasts...
BEIRUT: The industry’s most ostentatious and expensive womenswear hits Paris runways this week, when major fashion houses unveil their fall-winter...
BEIRUT: Plates of baklava and hot-pink sugar cookies, racks of classically trimmed abayas and loose robes with graphic prints: a mash-up of old-fashioned and...
BEIRUT: At the tail end of World War II, a slight, blonde actress named Nicoletta Parodi was fast becoming one of Italy’s rising film stars. By 1944,...