Posted By
Najib
Sep 13, 2016 09:18
Lebanese graffiti and street artist Yazan Halawani has been commissioned by Swiss luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer to design the first ever Arabic face for its Connected watch. The Arabic watch-face design was launched last week in Dubai and will only be available for sale in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Its price will range from $1,500 to $10,000. Here's what Yazan said about his calligraphic design for Tag Heuer, which came in muted shades of…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 12, 2016 08:33
“Film Kteer Kbeer” or "Very Big Shot", a film directed by Jean Bou Chaaya, was nominated by the Ministry of Culture to represent Lebanon officially at the 89th Academy Awards under the category of the best foreign Motion Picture film in 2017. I haven't seen the movie yet but Mark did watch it though back in February 2016 and loved it. "The film is in Arabic with English subtitles and was really fun to watch,…
Baladi
9 years ago
Dr. Nadia El Cheikh was appointed as the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. She is the first woman to be appointed as Dean of AUB’s ...
Baladi
9 years ago
“Nocturne in Black” was among the 2016 Student Academy Awards finalists under “Narrative” and was declared a winner yesterday! The Student Academy Awards were established by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the ...
Baladi
9 years ago
Lebanese Olympian Chirine Njeim completed yesterday the Women’s Marathon race with a time of 2h 51m 8s and ranked 109th out of 157 candidates. By doing so, Chirine joins a very exclusive club and becomes ...
Baladi
9 years ago
A Facebook post caught my attention last week about a former racing cyclist in Beirut called Abou el Dahab who runs his own bicycle shop with his son Osama in Zarif in Beirut. Abou el ...
Baladi
9 years ago
Ziad Sankari was 17 years old when his father died of a heart attack. Ever since, Ziad has dedicated his career to cardiac care and has founded in 2012 CardioDiagnostics: an award-winning medical technology innovation ...
Baladi
9 years ago
The official list of Student Academy Awards finalists is out and “Nocturne in Black” by Jimmy Keyrouz from Columbia University is among them. Jimmy Keyrouz is a New York based director and screenwriter. He completed ...
Art
9 years ago
Photo Credits: [VentureBeat] Jean-Claude Kalache traveled to the US in 1990 to continue his studies and earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in 1993 and a Master of Science in Visualization degree in 1997. ...
Baladi
9 years ago
The American University of Beirut has inaugurated yesterday its first photovoltaic power plant to “mitigate the high environmental and economic costs of electricity generation through combustion of diesel”. The solar panel system was installed on ...
