BEIRUT: Fadia Turkmani’s youngest child is old enough to be enrolled in school, but he won’t be this academic year – his family simply...
BEIRUT: The furnishings are both soft and hard, high and low; a glass-fronted fridge displays prepackaged sandwiches, salads and snacks; a menu above the...
BEIRUT: Some call it The Junkyard, others The Container or The Yellow Container, and yet others The Banana Place, but any confusion surrounding the name of...
BEIRUT: She weaves her way between the displays, twisting and turning to examine one pink backpack after another, clearly agonizing over whether to choose a...
BEIRUT: “You haven’t lived until you’ve had a thousand pounds of angry hamburger charging at you with its horns a couple of centimeters away...
BEIRUT: Occasionally a politician has a good idea. And even more occasionally that politician wants to see his or her idea realized without taking any of the...
BEIRUT: Joumana Haddad prefers Clark Kent to Superman. This may not be much of a revelation for womankind. For years women have seen the flaws in loving, and...
BEIRUT: Some people have long been prepared for this upcoming break. They marked up their yearly calendar on Jan. 1, identifying public holidays that yielded...
BEIRUT: Books on current affairs tend to have an irritatingly short shelf-life. The urge to publish the first book-length study on a country’s spell of...
BEIRUT: The world never has to look far to find evidence of U.S. citizens’ negative relationship with Islam. When a Florida pastor oversees the trial,...
BEIRUT: Fasters and non-fasters alike may delight in the sudden wealth of set-menu dining options that accompanies the holy month of Ramadan each year. Lavish...
BEIRUT: Germany’s Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid Markus Loning emphasized Thursday his country’s commitment to...
BEIRUT: Autobiography and memoir are, by their very nature, self-aggrandizing literary forms. Although self-penned “great man” narratives can make...
BEIRUT: It’s child’s play, right – the bucket, the spade, the conical mound, the seawater filled moat, into which the main body of the...
BEIRUT: Duck under the Corniche railing and skitter down the gravelly trail. It smells faintly of urine – hardly a surprise: There are no public toilets...
BEITEDDINE, Lebanon: “There are very, very few artist-calligraphers,” says Joumana Medlej. She muses that, for the most part, the ancient craft...
BSOUS, Lebanon: It all comes back to a small white caterpillar – the Versace sheath dress designed for Lady Diana Spencer, the Pucci swimming costume...
JBEIL, Lebanon: The old flower-seller’s gardenia garlands drooped as the sticky audience filed past. The sun sank, but the temperature stubbornly...
BEIRUT: “Positive Peace for Lebanon,” the latest publication in the Accord series, argues that a “fundamentally different approach is needed...
BEIRUT: Go on, guess what these four men have in common: A suit-clad individual spotted one morning by his parked car in Ashrafieh; an obese – and noisy...
BEIRUT: Pascal Hachem and Tagreed Darghouth are the winners of the inaugural Boghossian Foundation prize for young Lebanese artists. The Belgium-based...
HARET HREIK, Lebanon: You must see this. It’s rare to issue an imperative with such confidence, particularly when it comes to an art show. Yet...
BEIRUT: “We are not in a postwar society,” declared Lebanese artist Walid Sadek. The statement appeared to contradict the title of the conference....
BEIRUT: The images are simple, neither formally complex nor conceptually grounded. Along the staircase entryway and around the two-room gallery space of Dar...
AMMIQ, Lebanon: A countryside view unhindered by manmade structures is a rarity in Lebanon, but at the Ammiq Wetlands on the green and yellow patchwork planes...