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Basketball national team bound for Bahrain for Asia cup qualifiers

Basketball national team bound for Bahrain for Asia cup qualifiers

The Lebanese national basketball team left for the Bahraini capital, Manama, before noon today, to play two matches within the “second window” of the Asian Cup qualifiers that will be held next year. The national team will face its Indian counterpart next Friday, November 27, and its Iraqi counterpart next Sunday, the 29th of the...

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The Beirut Port Explosion

The Beirut Port Explosion

The explosions that ripped through the port of Beirut in 2020 devastated the city, leaving as many as 300,000 homeless. Following calls by city residents and survivors for an independent investigation, we’re releasing our models of the sequence of the incident as a free resource for investigators and civil society.

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British Council launches EnglishScore Tutors to Lebanon

British Council launches EnglishScore Tutors to Lebanon

The British Council has launched EnglishScore Tutors; a personal, online tutoring service to help you learn English online from the comfort of your home, the British Council in Lebanon indicated in a press release on Tuesday. David Knox, Director, British Council Lebanon said: “As a response to the growing global demand by customers for new ways...

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Information Ministry celebrates World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in cooperation with UNESCO

Information Ministry celebrates World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in cooperation with UNESCO

State-run Television of Lebanon (TL) and Radio Lebanon are set to celebrate World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, Tomorrow [Tuesday], October 27, based on the Ministry of Information’s special and exceptional attention to this day given that TL and Radio Lebanon possess the oldest, richest and most diverse archives in the Arab region. Therefore, tomorrow will...

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Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is ‘filming everything’ after Beirut blast

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is ‘filming everything’ after Beirut blast

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki revealed at the El Gouna Film Festival that she is “filming everything” in Beirut since the Aug. 4 blast. The Oscar-nominated director added that she doesn’t “know where it’s going to lead, or if it will ever lead anywhere,” but that she needs to “capture what’s been happening,” according to Variety....

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TikTok expands hate speech ban

TikTok expands hate speech ban

Video-sharing platform announces move just days after crackdown on QAnon conspiracy movement TikTok has banned a swathe of hate speech from its platform, just days after the company announced a crackdown on the conspiracist QAnon movement. Explicitly hateful ideologies, such as neo-nazism and white supremacy, are already banned on TikTok. Now, the moderation will be...