Nayla de Freige Awarded Prestigious 2023 “Grand Prix Du Rayonnement Français”

L'Orient-Le Jour CEO and Baalbeck Festival President Nayla de Freige was awarded yesterday during a ceremony in Paris the "Grand Prix Du Rayonnement Français - Prix du rayonnement francophone" in the presence of France's First Lady Brigitte Macron. Created in 2009, the "Grand Prix Du Rayonnement Français" rewards each year a personality or an institution, French or foreign, which carries the colors of France high in the world. There are five categories for the prize…

Tintin au Liban (Full Issue)

A while back, I stumbled upon a short video depicting a Tintin au Liban parody edition. The video showed an English edition which seemingly was issued by the National Lampoon magazine, an American humor magazine that ran from 1970 to 1998 and was a spinoff from the Harvard Lampoon. However, the only reference to this edition I could find were scanned copies of the full French edition, which is good enough for me :D I…
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AI Generated Portraits for Lebanese Cities

1 year ago
Lebanese Photographer Fredy Chemaly shared AI generated portraits for Lebanese cities and the results are amazing and some quite accurate. The pictures shared below are respectively for Zahle, Tripoli, Chouf, Broumanna and Batroun. You can ...
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The National Library Officially Reopens (Again)

2 years ago
The National Library was officially reopened in 2018 after 39 years but it had to be closed once again following the damages caused by the 2020 Beirut blast. Qatar had already sponsored the efforts to ...
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Tony Maalouf’s Contribution To Pfizer’s World Cancer Awareness Month 2022

2 years ago
As part of Pfizer’s #WorldCancerAwarenessMonth2022 campaign, Tony Maalouf (Interior Architect & Kick-ass Illustrator) produced this powerful animation to illustrate how a supporting network can make all the difference in a cancer patient’s life. This support ...
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Philippe Jabre’s Spectacular Art Collection

2 years ago
A 1908 painting of a Lebanese family overlooking the Mediterranean from their Ghazir house caught my attention on Twitter, so I decided to look further into its owner and discovered Philippe Jabre’s mesmerizing collection of ...
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New Roman Temple Complex Discovered in Tyre!

2 years ago
A group of archeologists led by Ali Badaoui of the Directorate General of Antiquities, María Eugenia Aubet of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona and Francisco J. Núñez of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology ...
Architecture

Henry Loussian’s Museum is Now Open!

2 years ago
Known as the keeper of Beirut’s past, Lebanese collector Henry Loussian has finally opened his Batroun house, his own Sistine Chapel, to the public. The announcement was made on Instagram where he invited people to ...
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A Mural Tribute To Egyptian Feminister & Writer Nawal El Saadawi in #Beirut

2 years ago
“Homeland is where love and freedom reside ..”. A mural tribute to outspoken Egyptian feminist and writer Nawal El Saadawi was set up in Beirut yesterday by Roula Abdo, a Lebanese artist. The event was ...
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“Everyone is The Creator of One’s Own Faith”: An Exhibition In Memory of Gaïa Fodoulian

2 years ago
“Everyone is the creator of one’s own faith”, these were the last words written by Gaïa Fodoulian on Instagram after spending the day out with her mother. That same day, Gaïa had returned home when ...
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