Lebanese Artist Akram Zaatari Among ArtReview’s Top 100 Most Powerful Contemporary Artists in The World

Akram Zaatari is a Lebanese video artist and curator. He's also the co-founder of The Arab Image Foundation who contains more than “600,000 historic images of daily life in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora", and is the one who discovered Hashem el Madani's work and decided to partner with him and show Studio Shehrazade's photographs to the whole world. I posted about Studio Shehrazade back in February and it's one of…
Architecture

Lebanese Rodolphe el-Khoury Named New Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture

11 years ago
It seems I missed out on yet another achievement for a Lebanese abroad, as Rodolphe el Khoury was named the new dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture back in May 2014. El ...
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Lebanon Tops The List of Countries By Net Migration Rate

11 years ago
The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change and does not differentiate between economic migrants, refugees and other types of migrants. Of course it’s not surprising to ...
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Beirut Bar Association Removed Fattouche’s Name From Its List, Pharaon To File A Lawsuit Against Him

11 years ago
According to LBCI, the Beirut Bar Association has removed the name of MP Nicolas Fattoush from the list of lawyers, while Al Jadeed reported that Pierre Michel Pharaon has filed a slander lawsuit against MP ...
Critiques

Samir Kassab Is Also Lebanese And Is Still Missing In Syria

11 years ago
We all want the kidnapped Lebanese soldiers to be freed, and it is a matter of utmost importance, but we should give the same importance to any Lebanese kidnapped in Syria, whether they are soldiers, ...
Fashion

Beirut-Based Mukhi Sisters Among The Top 5 Middle Eastern Daywear Jewelry Designers

11 years ago
Style.com (Arabia) featured the Mukhi Sisters as one of the top 5 Middle Eastern Jewelry Designers. I don’t know much about jewelry but I’ve met the Mukhi sisters on several occasions and appreciate their work ...
Architecture

Lebanese Hashim Sarkis Named Dean of School of Architecture and Planning at MIT

11 years ago
Lebanese Architect Hashim Sarkis, a prominent scholar of architecture and urbanism, has been named the new dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), effective in January. Hashim has published works on architecture and ...
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#ToOurCountries (The Original Version)

11 years ago
I don’t know if it’s true, but some are saying that the two girls behind the #ToOurCountries video that went viral are pro-Assad. Here’s how these guys responded to that story. I personally think we ...
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ABC More Smoke-Free Than Ever

11 years ago
People were complaining earlier online that they spotted some people smoking indoors at ABC Achrafieh and that the mall is breaking the smoking bank law. It didn’t take long for ABC’s owner Robert Fadel to ...
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