A 5-Minute Standing Ovation for “The Insult” at Venice’74

Ziad Doueiri's "The Insult" was showing at the 2017 Venice Film Festival and received an honorable 5-minute standing ovation from the public. The movie made its debut at the Venice film festival last week and the results should be announced on September 9. Lebanese Director Doueiri co-wrote the script of "The Insult" with his wife Joelle Touma. It's the fourth joint project between the two and "the fact that both came from families with deep…

One of The World’s Finest Pieces of Crystallized Gold is in Beirut

I just finished reading a really intriguing story regarding one of the world's finest pieces of crystallised gold, which was acquired for the Australian Museum in Sydney, got stolen in the late 1940s and somehow found its way into Salim Edde's MIM museum. For those who are not familiar with Edde and MIM, Salim Edde is a successful Lebanese engineer and businessman who began in 1997 to put together a mineral collection like no other…

Movie Review: “The Insult” by Ziad Doueiri

The Insult is about a verbal dispute between Toni Hanna , a Lebanese Christian mechanic and survivor of the 1976 Damour Massacre and Yasser , a Palestinian refugee living in camps and working as a foreman in Toni's neighborhood. The dispute quickly turns into a confrontation between the two men when Yasser punches Tony Hard over nasty anti-Palestinian talks and soon escalates into a nationwide crisis and a highly publicized trial that reflects the deep…
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Beirut Municipality to Plant 7000 Trees By 2019

8 years ago
The Municipal Council of Beirut City is set to plant about 7000 trees, within a year from this date. The types of trees that are expected to be planted are Barakititium, Jacaranda, Olive, Albizia, Magnolia, ...
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Invoice Tax Increases to 250LL, 250LL & 50LL Stamps not in Circulation

8 years ago
Here’s an extra reason why the new taxes law should be revisited. The invoice tax was increased from 100LL to 250LL, which means that we need to put a 250LL stamp on invoices instead of ...
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New Taxes Law Suspended by The Constitutional Council

8 years ago
The Constitutional Council has just ordered a suspension of the new tax law following an appeal led by MP Sami Gemayel and ten other MPs. This means that the new taxes won’t be implemented pending ...
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U.S Airstrikes Blocks Daesh Convoy

8 years ago
Choukran Trump? Not really but it’s good to hear the convoy of Islamic State fighters that were given a safe passage to an ISIS-held territory near Iraq was stopped. Other airstrikes targeted militants racing to ...
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