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Best reads for kicking back at the beach
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May 25, 2012 01:52 AM
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BEIRUT: The perfect day spent lounging by the sea requires a trio of ingredients: the dip, the sip and the flip. The dip is easy: Just take the essential, refreshing plunge into the Mediterranean or for the more cautious, the beachside pool. The sip is also taken care of almost effortlessly:...
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Lebanon’s alternative seaside destinations
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May 12, 2012 02:22 AM
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BEIRUT: Loud music, high heels and even higher entrance rates may seem to be inescapable at the beach in Lebanon, but this need not be the case. The Daily Star has sought out five unique seaside haunts for those seeking an alternative day by the coast. OFF THE BEATEN TRACK The seafront at the Tyre...
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Appropriating Palestinian history’s orphans for fiction
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May 05, 2012 12:07 AM
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BEIRUT: He turns the key in the ignition and presses the accelerator. Minutes later he’s dead along with 63 others at Beirut’s U.S. Embassy. It is April 18, 1983. The U.S. Embassy truck bomber’s victims were eventually named. His identity has remained unknown – that is...
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Enjoy the road to Batroun and back, by bike
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May 03, 2012 02:22 AM
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BEIRUT: The last five kilometers is torture – thighs burn, and hope plummets as every bend rounded and hill crested fails to reveal our destination. But the cold Almaza upon arrival at the Pierre and Friends beach club outside Batroun obliterates it all – beer tastes better at the...
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When new music is at odds with a classic venue
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April 30, 2012 12:04 AM
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BEIRUT: At one point in Checkpoint 303’s politically charged 90-minute multimedia performance at Dawar al-SHAMS Saturday night, the phrase “out of place” flashed on screen. Unfortunately, this phrase was more resonant than the rest of the activist sound project’s...
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A novel way to change the world
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April 18, 2012 12:02 AM
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BEIRUT: Literature is capable of having a transformative effect, affirms British-Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh, but a number of issues must be addressed before such an impact can be felt in the Middle East. The much-anthologized short fiction writer published her debut novel “Out of...
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Explore the host of hidden treasures Beirut has on offer
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April 17, 2012 12:29 AM
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BEIRUT: Beirut guidebooks have their uses – hotel listings, emergency numbers, helpful maps – but on the sightseeing front they often come up short. If you’ve duly paid a visit to the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque (often better known as the “blue mosque”) and been decidedly...
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What else happened on this day in history?
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April 13, 2012 12:03 AM
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BEIRUT: History weighs heavily upon certain dates. Yet on April 13, 1977, two years into the Lebanese Civil War, the last thing on Krikor Krikorian’s mind is the Ain al-Roummaneh bus massacre – the event that, history books tell us, started it all. Instead, the Armenian-Lebanese...
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Conosci il tuo pasto: Find out where your meal is from
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March 24, 2012 01:55 AM
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BEIRUT: With Lebanon’s food safety reputation circling the drain as warehouse after dumpster after warehouse of spoiled consumables is uncovered, many people are, perhaps quite rightly, swearing off eating outside of their own homes. But if the prospect of being confined to your own kitchen...
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Lebanese swept up in worldwide tide of green for St. Patrick’s Day
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March 17, 2012 02:09 AM
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BEIRUT: Dubai’s Burj al-Arab is green today, as are the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Niagara Falls, the London Eye and South Africa’s Table Mountain. No, a mysterious pollutant isn’t shrouding international landmarks – it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Celebrated annually on...
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Behind these designers stand great women
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March 16, 2012 02:12 AM
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BEIRUT: This time out they’ve taken on the woman. They’ve talked to her and talked about her. They’ve explored her myriad incarnations and challenged their assumptions and perceptions of her. And finally they’ve dressed her. Guided by the diverse nature of the woman, The...
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Need a break? An array of destinations await
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March 14, 2012 02:01 AM
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BEIRUT: Summer is just around the corner, and much like the temperatures, the cost of flying overseas is about to start creeping upwards on route to its August zenith. If you’re cash-conscious but desperately in need of a break from Lebanon, then the next month may provide your last...
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Resuscitating an activist icon
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March 02, 2012 12:15 AM
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BEIRUT: In 40 years time, Egypt’s Arab Spring may well boil down to a simple image: the protester. Maybe he’ll be recollected with his hand raised, defiantly displaying fingertips adorned with some of the bullet casings fired into a civilian crowd. Perhaps it will be a photo of her...
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Shaken or stirred, you can concoct it at home
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March 01, 2012 01:45 AM
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BEIRUT: In many of this city’s cocktail hotspots there is no menu – Beirutis don’t need one.For decades bartenders have deftly delivered mixed drinks as discerning customers flock in droves to the establishments that offer the best margaritas, mojitos and martinis. At the end of the night though,...
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Like having a cat purring in your lap
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March 01, 2012 12:07 AM
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BEIRUT: An allegory, by definition, discloses meaning – albeit not directly. But anyone expecting nothing short of revelation from Mustapha Azeroual’s work may be disappointed to find the impact is far more subtle. “Engram; allegory of the visible,” Azeroual’s first solo exhibition at Karantina’s...
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