A trio of Lebanese fashion designers pooled their international experiences for Thursday’s Summer Pop-Up at the Cream Boutique in Saifi Village.
The first 16 graduates from the Lebanese American University’s inaugural fashion class showed off their final year collections with a catwalk show that demonstrated a new generation of designers moving well beyond couture cliches.
Tony Bou Safi begins his day at 4 a.m., selecting produce to stock his grocery, before driving back in Geitawi neighborhood to prepare for the morning hustle of locals purchasing their daily supplies of fruits and vegetables.
Architectural gems of the Ottoman and French Mandate eras have increasingly lost the battle to age, neglect and gentrification in Lebanon’s capital – but one Ottoman house in Gemmayzeh has now been granted a second lease of life.
As the holy month of Ramadan begins, so does the race between different TV channels to offer viewers the choicest selection of series and entertainment shows.
The Lebanese are not the only people who live in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon witnessed another major step forward for the environment Friday after it opened its second public park in as many years.
When on the road with the Ladies of Harley, Talar Partiyan and Loulwa Khater – both keen riders – say they transcend reality and feel totally at ease.
Learning new things, eating and drinking well, not smoking and limiting hearing loss and loneliness could prevent a third of dementia cases, health experts...
The scales have tipped in the fight against AIDS, with more than half of people infected with HIV now getting treatment and AIDS-related deaths almost halving...
In a city full of hair stylists, Muhannad Khaled Omar stands out. Omar, 26, is a Palestinian-Syrian stylist known for shaving celebrity portraits into...
When ice floes stretch to the horizon in the Arctic Circle, threatening to strand ships, icebreakers are in their element.
One of two baby peregrine falcons born on the University of California, Berkeley campus died after flying into a window, university officials said Wednesday
Britain's Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species...
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
Family and supporters Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, while...
1983 shouldn’t have been particularly memorable for most people, but for me it was traumatic.
Developments over the past week or so have forced me to come to a startling conclusion: There’s a new crisis heading toward us and it’s unavoidable.
Soft lines met rough edges at the launch of Lebanese fashion designer Garen Demirdjian’s 2017 spring/summer couture collection and new eponymous brand at his...
Rows of green tents lined the northeast corner of Beirut’s hippodrome this week for the five-day street festival “Beirut’s Glory Days Are Back,” an event that...
Replete with a wandering saxophonist, stacks of hors d’oeuvres and a fully stocked bar, the Phoenicia Hotel hosted an extravagant dinner Thursday to mark the...
“All my worry used to be about making people believe in female pilots, and women doing any masculine job.
Hundreds of Bangladeshis from all walks of life gathered at the UNESCO Palace late last week to usher in the Bengali New Year, in festive style.
Beirut Fashion Week opened early this week, ushering in what the organizers say is one of the biggest international events hosted in Lebanon and the region.
The Levantine Institute of Tripoli – unique in its location and core mission – welcomed the local community and potential students to a rooftop event last...
Lebanese fashion designer Sanaa Ayoub launched her 2017 spring/summer collection earlier this week, with a range of looks best described as eveningwear...
Before the Civil War, Beirut’s central souks boasted a bustling flower and plant market, which ceased to exist during the drawn-out conflict.
Travel writing as a discipline has historically been dominated by European men, so the work of Lebanese writer and traveler Leila Amad Bissat offers a unique...
Hasan Fashwal has been fishing off the Ain al-Mreisseh Corniche for over 30 years.
Aasha el Tayeb, a new initiative cooked up by Beirut-based NGO Souk el Tayeb to offer a restaurant experience to underprivileged members of society, was...
World-renowned winemaker Fabrice Guiberteau treated guests this week to four different Chateau Kefraya wines with an impassioned talk on the art of drinking.
Ian Colluim is living out his dream job.
“Hard work pays off, consistency is key and we should always keep dreaming,” Lebanese fashion blogger and entrepreneur Lana El Sahely said as she reflected on...
While co-working spaces have mushroomed in Beirut in recent years, a new concept tailored to the independent workforce is currently being pioneered by a tech...
“We need to save land, we need to address the traffic in Lebanon,” said Elias Beainou, general manager of Ayoub Beainou and Sons Company.
In the days of flashy pubs and pounding music, the dimly lit wooden facade of Captain’s Cabin stands out as a relic of a bygone era.
On a typical Sunday night, you’ll find 21-year-old Nada Ben Jemaa skating on four wheels, bumping her friends to the ground and sometimes making a trip to the...