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Pictures I took at the Sunflower theatre in Beirut. This exhbit is based on true stories that were told to the author of the exhibit, so each one represents a real person, a true story while they were running away from Palestine, or stories they heard…

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Lebanese photographer Rima Maroun has officially been announced as the winner of the Anna Lindh Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures in 2008, the Anna Lindh Foundation said Tuesday. The Award, which is bestowed and voted on by the members of the Anna Lindh Foundation’s networks of civil society present in over 30 countries, […]

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It was characterized as a historic day for the New Acropolis Museum. A big step for the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles. The return of the Palermo fragment, a foot from a sculpture of the ancient Greek hunt goddess Artemis, which was originally stood above the entrance to the Parthenon. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano presented […]

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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg.com)
In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon’s warA Shiite Muslim militiaman helped the couple escape. Arazi, a leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country’s tradition of tolerance. Now he is trying to make use of that […]

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C’est on se retrouvant ce soir chez moi pour réaprendre à djahida comment poster que nous avons pensé à vous envoyer à toutes un coucou affectueux.
souad et djahida

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This group is called Deolinda, which is a very typical, yet old-fashioned, female name in Portugal. The group tried to recreate a modern and urban (suburban, actually) concept of the traditional Portuguese song fado, with an inch of humor. Although you probably won’t understand what the singer is saying, I hope you can capture the freshness […]

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Specchia 2008: Festa del Cinema del Reale:
je suis invitées, mais je n’ai pas de film dans ma valise, je suis ici au nom de NewsLab
et je profite de cette occasion pour voir ce qu’il veut faire aujourd’hui des documentaires
maintenant que j’ai décidé de faire de la mise en scène mon métier
mais en vérité peu incertaine

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Those who thought the singer who entertained thousands last week in Martyrs Square was Lebanese are mistaken.
Indeed, Mika was born in Beirut to an American father and a Lebanese mother: Lebanese law does not allow Lebanese women to pass down nationality to their children.
So the brilliant artist who should be (and would like to be) […]

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