The Lebanese American University (LAU) launched a creative initiative in support of the Emergency Financial Aid Fund, calling it LAU Artrising. The university inaugurated it in order to help the students who are having difficulty funding their education. LAU’s Artising was launched in collaboration with ArtScoops. It’s auctioning art created by the LAU community. Inspired by Henri Matisse’s mantra, “creativity takes courage,” the showcased art exemplifies thought-provoking portraits, abstracts, and sculptures. Elida Jbeili, the Director of Communications and Media at Lebanese American University in New York, is in charge of promoting the auction with the Lebanese diaspora. She told The961 that…
Author: Reem Ezzedine
Phenomenal and unorthodox Lebanese Armenian Violinist, Ara Malikian, paid a tribute to his birthplace Lebanon with the premiere of his new album Petit Garage, which he played in the Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suárez Airport, surprising arriving passengers. Due to the global pandemic that obstructed the performers’ concert plans and bookings he’d done around the world, Malikian had to improvise and ensure the world is not deprived from his soulful tunes. He turned the Royal Garage into a Petit Garage where he opted to continue performing and delivering his beautiful melodies to the world, through turning his prodigious concerts into much smaller,…
An exceptional Lebanese professional actress and holder of almost half a dozen publications, Hanane Hajj Ali has ventured out to emphasize her political and feminist activism through her plays and acting. In 2020, selected from a pool of 27 nominees from 18 different countries, Hanane took the first place position in the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Awards. This major international award is presented every 3 years, acknowledging non-U.S. theatre women. Among the finalists was also another Lebanese, theater director, writer, and performer Maya Zbib who is founding member of Zoukak Theatre Company. With the prestigious award, new artisitic and professionl networking…
Due to Lebanon’s ongoing deteriorating economic state, this year’s inflation rate has resulted in market food prices surging up to a 400% increase rate based on Bloomberg’s calculations brought through the Central Administration of Statistics. According to Bloomberg, the following percentage increases were a result of the inflation since December: Food and non-alcoholic beverages rose 402.3%Alcoholic beverages, tobacco up 392.5%Clothing and footwear increased 559.8%Restaurants and hotels rose 609%Furnishings, household equipment, and routine maintenance up 655.1% Lebanon’s inflation rate soared up 82% from 2019 to 2020 based on the data analyzed from the Central Administration of Statistics, making it really difficult…
After crossing the borders of Lebanon and rising to fame worldwide, the name of Gibran Khalil Gibran reached space, reigning on a crater on the closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System: Mercury. The naming of the crater after the great Lebanese poet and philosopher was not random. It was the deed of a Lebanese astrophysicist whom Gibran had deeply influenced long after his death. Her name is Dr. Nelly Mouawad, one of the first Lebanese female astrophysicists worldwide, and currently the only female university professor in the field of astrophysics in Lebanon. She made it happen, proposing to name…
Lebanese man living in Dubai just became the third lucky winner of the Emirati founded Loto, Mahzouz Draw, when his lotto number 6-11-13-31-34-37 hit the jackpot, securing him AED 1,000,000. A new millionaire in Dubai, the Lebanese expat, who is being referred to as Abu Ali, is now in possession of what equates to USD 272,255.50 Abu Ali wasn’t really following up on the draw results, probably not expecting to win anything. He was relaxing at home watching Netflix when his phone beeped, informing him that he was the lucky winner. View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Former Miss World (2000), and internationally-famous Indian Actrice Priyanka Chopra went for a Lebanese label to launch her new hair product line, Anomaly. For her initiative to bring a new “affordable, clean, and sustainable haircare,” which, as she said, “shouldn’t cost the earth,” she presented her line of products rocking a seductive design by the label Mônot. Eli Mizrahi, founder and creative designer of the brand Mônot, is known for his alluring and femininely daring designs of sleek cut. As he shared with Vogue during an interview, he focuses largely on designing outfits of “clean lines, simple shapes, and curves.”…
Pertinent statements about Lebanon and its politicians written in the 1920s by Gebran Khalil Gebran still stand strong to this day and age. You Have Your Lebanon and I Have My Lebanon delves into a comparison between Gebran Khalil Gebran’s ideal Lebanon and the people in power whose selfishness and greed have defiled the country. The following are some highlights from his writings depicting what remains the same about Lebanon leading with the following: “You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.” #1 The corrupt officials who’ve made Lebanon worst than it ever was…
The world-renowned Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad is making a new impression with the new Spring Collection he has created, inspired by the painted fauna of the French Impressionist Henry Russeau. Passionflowers, Calatheas, the beauty of nature with its greenery and flowers, and the tropics in elegant styles, this is how his Ready-to-Wear 2021 collection could be described, although he didn’t miss some sober colors and some touch of glitters. He came up with a stunning Spring 2021 Ready-To-Wear collection that simply feels the tropics without missing the elegance he is known for in the styles. In his own words, the…
With the pandemic raging through Lebanon, taking many lives on its lethal course, hospitals have been unable to cope and the government has proven not up to the challenge. Many affected people are left to manage to survive the virus on their own, at home, with a crucial need for oxygen machines. However, oxygen machines are not something you can find around the corner. Even hospitals are lacking these crucial machines, and the health ministry hasn’t been of any help to secure them to the affected people whose life depends on that. Once again, it is the Lebanese people who…
