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Entries Tagged as 'Arts & Culture'

Tabbouleh is Lebanese and so is the Hummus

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: Arts & Culture · History · Humour · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Society · Video

Le Maroc Profond vu par 2 jeunes documentaristes Français

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

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J’ai appris par le site web du journal letelegramme.com  que deux jeunes documentaristes Français, récemment licencié en audiovisuel, ont choisi le Maroc pour leur 1ère aventure professionnelle entre sep et octobre. Il y a quelques jours, leur travail qui a duré un mois sur le terrain [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Youth

La condition des femmes en Orient, une conférence-débat au goût amer au 16e Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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L’Orient des femmes n’est pas aussi reluisant que l’on pourrait le croire. La conférence-débat organisée dans le cadre du 16e Salon du livre francophone de Beyrouth a été l’occasion pour Nahida Nakad de dresser un constat effarant mais réalistes, des droits de la femme au [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Community Development · Gender · Human Rights · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Society · women

Lebanese School Rips Pages From Textbook Critical of Hezbollah

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
AP
BEIRUT —  A leading school in Lebanon was forced to remove pages from a history book said to describe Hezbollah as a terrorist organization after a Cabinet minister from the militant group complained, a state news agency reported Tuesday.
Hezbollah, which has fought Israel [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Education · History · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Politics · War & Conflict

Nice poem of Neruda (1904-1973)

August 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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While surfing on net for Pablo Neruda’s poems, I found this one.
If you’d like to read more of Neruda’s online poems, please go to this site: www.peomhunter.com
Enjoy!
I want you to know
one thing
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture

Et si on allait à la plage

July 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Photo

Quelques secondes de glamour

May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

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Cannes, quelques secondes de glamour
en direct de cannesUploaded by LeliaLeb. – Watch original web videos.
Meme les vitrines s’y mettent (ici celle de Valentino)
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Tags: Arts & Culture · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Uncategorized · cinema

Cabaret night in Lebanon…

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

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lebanese dancer in restaurant
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lebanese dancer in restaurant
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Tags: Arts & Culture · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Personal · Travel · Video · music · women

The streets of Paris in spring

April 28th, 2009 · No Comments

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Music everywhere, the second video is a piece of art

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enjoy…
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Tags: Arts & Culture · Personal · Travel · Video · music

The One Man Village

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

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Discover the trailer of this lebanese movie by Simon Habre
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Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village of Ain al-Halazoun in the Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil [...]

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Tags: Arts & Culture · Lebanon · Mediterranean · Simon Habre · Video · cinema