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Le numéro 318 de l’Agenda Culturel PDF
Written by L'Agenda Culturel   
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
 
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Le numéro 318 de l'Agenda Culturel

du 5 au 18 mars 2008

vient de paraître.

 

En couverture
photographie de Fred Willem

AU SOMMAIRE:
- Le programme culturel et artistique de la quinzaine: expos, concerts, théâtre, ciné-clubs, randonnées…

- 3 Questions à: Mazaher Zar Music, groupe de musique égyptien, et Thierry Smith, chorégraphe et fondateur de la Thor Dance Company.
- Le dessin de Chappatte
- Parole d’image: "Des carcasses de voitures dans la ville" de Jacques Aswad
- Art contemporain: "Art Dubaï: Entretien avec John Martin"

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Lebanese diva opens Syrian hearts PDF
Written by BBC   
Monday, 11 February 2008
Lebanese singer Fairuz
Every day the sun rises over Syria you hear one voice across the country - Fairuz, the legendary Lebanese singer and greatest living Arab diva.
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Lebanon's Caracalla dancing through troubles PDF
Written by Tom Perry   
Tuesday, 13 November 2007

BEIRUT (Reuters Life!) - Lebanon's Caracalla Dance Theatre defied the odds to bring its fusion of modern and oriental dance to stages at home and abroad, building one of the Arab world's great artistic success stories.

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Lebanese movie "Caramel" talks women, not war PDF
Written by Reuters   
Saturday, 01 September 2007
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In a cinema industry traditionally dominated by the theme of war, "Caramel", a film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, shies away from conflict and instead brings to light social dilemmas faced by Lebanese women.
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Nip'n'tuck loans offer in Lebanon PDF
Written by BBC   
Friday, 20 April 2007
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A Lebanese bank is giving out loans for cosmetic procedures in this notoriously image-conscious Mediterranean country.
First National Bank's website dubs the "plastic surgery loans" as a way to "have the life you've always wanted".
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'Their own agony': Photography project hands camera to children PDF
Written by The Dialy Star   
Tuesday, 10 April 2007

'Their own agony': Photography project hands camera to childrenCamp initiative gives frequent subjects chance to frame images

Apr. 10, 2007- A group of professional photographers has launched a project to help young residents of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon release stress and learn communication through the art of photography. The project is the brainchild of AFP photographer Ramzi Haidar, who, after spending time in Baghdad where children were continually photographed as evidence of misery, felt it was time for the children themselves to take control and show the world through their eyes.

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Truffaz Quartet delivers mix of muscle and fun in return to Lebanon PDF
Written by The Daily Star   
Thursday, 05 April 2007

 Truffaz Quartet delivers mix of muscle and fun in return to Lebanon

Lyric trumpeter keeps hungry Liban Jazz crowd in thrall in one-night-stand at Music Hall

BEIRUT, Apr. 05, 2007-  Back in 2004, the year the Erik Truffaz Quartet delivered its blistering performance at the Byblos International Festival, the audience was estimated to be a miniscule 400-500 souls. Evidently political unrest has brought Lebanon's jazz aficionados back to their senses. Or perhaps they simply refuse to leave Beirut.

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Lebanon Mountain Trail helps hikers get to know PDF
Written by The Daily Star   
Thursday, 05 April 2007

Lebanon Mountain Trail helps hikers get to know

Another side of the country - and some of its people

"When the human brain achieved maturity, man discovered hiking," said Michael Moufarej, manager of Liban Trek, Lebanon's first ecotourism company. Dismissing Darwin, Moufarej continues: "The first one is an evolutionary theory and this is a revolutionary theory."

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Film portrays civilian heroes of Lebanon war PDF
Written by Gulf Times   
Wednesday, 04 April 2007

Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri had a sense of deja vu last year while filming a documentary on life in Beirut under Israeli bombardment.

Apr. 04, 2007- “History repeats itself, that’s for sure,” said Masri, whose early work includes Under the Rubble - a documentary on Beirut during Israel’s 1982 invasion.

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Madness takes over Lebanon.
Militants are fighting in the streets of Beirut. Military guns are on both sides. What is the prospect of such a situation. Aren't the Lebanese fed-up with wars?

23 November 2007
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud left the Baabda presidential palace without handing over the power to a new president. This is the first time since independence in 1943.

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