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Wednesday evening at the New Morning Club in Paris, Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese composer & trumpet player, gave a magnificent jazz concert tinted with Lebanese folk melodies. Playing his quarter-tone trumpet, unique en son genre, and accompanied by extraordinary...
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“Learning about wilderness is not like learning arithmetic or economics or how the political system works. It is more akin to learning what is beautiful about a Mozart concerto, a Rembrandt painting, or a Shakespearean sonnet. To appreciate wilderness...
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It was Sunday and I still woke up early as usual. The house was quiet, everyone was still asleep. I was in Broummana for the summer. I quickly put on my clothes and walking shoes. I carefully tip-toed down the stairs of the three-floor building which...
Lire la suiteThis morning, Doris, a friend from Down Under, forwarded to me the link to an article published earlier this week in the Belfast Telegraph , under Travel News. She thought I'd like it and she was not wrong; I loved that piece of news. It is beautifuly...
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Born in Beirut, brought up in Paris, a student in Marketing and in Music, an activist for a peaceful Lebanon, Patricia Atallah is also a “voice messenger”, seeking to have her suave voice touch the hearts of all around, near and far, with a message of...
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One of the first things I wrote on my blog was a commentary on the book “I, the Divine” by Rabih Alameddine. [1] I promised then that I would post an extract as soon as I got hold of the book again. After a long absence from my library, the book showed...
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Ralph Mahfoud , 20, Lebanese-born citizen of the world, graduate student in Communication Arts at La Sorbonne, trainee in the "creation of image" in Paris, is thinking up the image of Beirut. A cultured young man, a strong music lover, an "artiste dans...
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Caramel , premier film et premier succès pour la réalisatrice libanaise Nadine Labaké, dépeint l’histoire de cinq femmes libanaises, cinq amies d’âges différents, qui travaillent et se croisent dans un institut de beauté à Beyrouth. « Dans cet univers...
Lire la suiteLe Liban est un des exemples que Emmanuel Todd cite pour expliquer sa théorie contestant celle de Huntington sur le « Choc des Civilisations ». Utilisant la démographie comme fondement scientifique, Emmanuel Todd, démographe et historien, parie, au contraire,...
Lire la suiteAprès Live Earth , la Techno Parade parisienne s'engage elle aussi pour la protection de l'environnement. Après avoir milité pendant 10 ans et non sans succès pour que les musiques électroniques soient reconnues comme une esthétique musicale à part entière...
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