Culture

Once head of Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun is elected as president, his parliamentary seat in the district of keserwan will automatically become vacant, just as MP Robert Fadel’s parliamentary seat, which became vacant in Tripoli when he resigned from Parliament. In this […]

Halloween is a time when children dress up in costume and traipse from door-to-door begging for sweets, in one of the enduring traditions known as ‘trick or treating’. Like many of our modern-day traditions, myths and legends associated with Halloween – from witches and black […]

NNA – Education and Higher Learning Minister, Elias Bou Saab, on Tuesday met with a delegation of International Monetary Fund (IMF), with talks focusing on the ministry’s projects and the costs of education in the country. Separately, Minister Bou Saab met with each of EU […]

WASHINGTON — “The Art of the Qur’an”, the first major exhibition of its type in the United States that opened Oct. 22 in Washington, features more than 60 of the most important manuscripts of and about the Quran, created over more than 1,000 years across […]

Lebanese Sandy Tabet, 22, fixes her crown after winning the Miss Lebanon 2016 contest at Casino Du Liban in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, late Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. (AP) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Sunday, 23 October 2016 Text size A A A The […]

The lander’s failed mission was confirmed by images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passing above the landing site. Earlier this week, the ESA declared its ExoMars 2016 mission a success, despite losing contact with Schiaparelli just before its expected landing time. READ MORE: ExoMars […]

Syria’s first lady has said she rejected a deal to offer her safe passage out of the war-torn nation in order to stay by her husband’s side. Asma al-Assad revealed she believed those offering her a new home were trying to undermine her husband Bashar’s […]

Famous chef and restaurateur Mario Batali, aided by a team of US Navy SEALs, is cooking the final State Dinner of the Obama administration. As it turns out, Batali was handpicked for this occasion by First Lady Michele Obama herself. As Batali himself has remarked, […]

BEIRUT: What better innovation than something that goes straight to the stomach. Nahlan Saade, a fashion design graduate, has in just a few years built “Better from Scratch,” making her culinary mark as an entrepreneur. The start-up delivers homemade pastries that promise the basics of […]