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Najib
Apr 01, 2023 03:56
Souraya Zakharia, a famous Lebanese doll maker from the 60s was featured in MEA's Cedar Wings Magazine February 1994. Zakharia was a UN arts and crafts consultant and "had collaborated with several countries on traditional folklore preservation as well as working closely with President Camille Chamoun's wife, Sitt Zalfa". The story was brought up by the Lebanese Fashion History page, and Souraya's daughter even shared a letter from Jacquelyn Kennedy, the First Lady of the…
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Najib
Apr 01, 2023 01:29
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…
Art
1 year ago
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 ...
Art
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 ...
Art
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 ...
Art
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 ...
Art
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 ...
Art
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
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 ...
Art
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 ...
