My Dad’s Portrait By The Super Talented Samia Al Homsi Dagher

Samia Dagher is a software engineer from Tripoli but also a highly talented artist who specializes in drawing portraits using ballpoint pens, colored pencils or simply pencils and charcoals. I've been following her page for a couple of years now and her paintings are absolutely mind blowing. The attention to details, the precision and the finishing touches are quite amazing; you can check it for yourself . I asked Samia a couple of months ago…

Cinema Returns to Tyre as Rivoli Reopens

After bringing back to life El Hamra cinema few years back to hold Tyre's first ever international film festival, Kassem Istanbouli has taken the abandoned Rívoli Cinema of Tyre, for its restoration and opening as a Culture space for the city. Cinema Rivali was open from 1959 till 1988 and was visited by several local and foreign celebrities including: Jean Marais, Brigitte Bardot, Rushdi Abaza, Emad Hamdy, Omar Hariri, Nadia ALjoundi, Anwar Albaba, Ibrahim Meraachli…
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A Lebanese National Pavilion at The 2018 Venice Biennale For the First Time!

7 years ago
Minister of Culture and the Order Of Engineers And Architects Of Beirut announced yesterday along with the Italian Ambassador and architect Hala Younes that Lebanon will be represented officially at the 16th edition of the ...
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A Kids Play That’s Even More Complex than Game of Thrones

8 years ago
Can someone explain what this “Pierre de Lune” play is about? I heard the Bte7la el 7ayet interview like 10 times and I still don’t get it LOL! In fact, I first heard about it ...
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Metamorphosis of Beirut From 1870 Till 2052 at Beyt Amir

8 years ago
There’s a really interesting exhibition taking place at Beyt Amir entitled “Temporary – Metamorphosis of a city: Beirut 1870 – 2052“. The exhibition is a tribute to Beirut through photographs, prints, and installations showing how ...
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Yazan Halwani’s Latest Stunning Mural on Beirut’s Greenline

8 years ago
Yazan strikes again, this time with a beautiful mural painted on building previously destroyed by the Civil War located on Beirut’s Greenline – the former frontline of the Civil War splitting Beirut into the Christian ...
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“Stolen” Salvador Dali Portrait of Mrs. Reeves Seized in Beirut

8 years ago
I’m surprised this story did not make a major buzz locally and internationally. The ISF has apparently recovered this week a painting thought to be an original work by Salvador Dali, a prominent Spanish surrealist ...
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ASHEKMAN #OperationSALAM is Complete

8 years ago
After three weeks of hard work, ASHEKMAN has finally completed a huge project in Tripoli where they painted a gigantic Arabic #Calligraffiti of the word #peace or #سلام on 85 rooftops in Syria street, which ...
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Marble Bull’s Head From The Temple of Echmoun Recovered by the Ministry of Culture

8 years ago
The Minister of Culture announced a couple days ago that the marble bull’s head from the Phoenician temple of Echmoun was finally returned to Lebanon. The head was reportedly looted from an archaeological storage area ...
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Gorgeous New Beirut Mural by Cuban-American Artist Jorge Rodríguez Gerada

8 years ago
Cuban-American Artist Jorge Rodríguez Gerada is in Beirut and has just finished the first of a series of large scale works. The mural is near the Beirut Digital District and is a collaboration between Gerada ...
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