Saudi Arabia and Russia Extend Oil Production Cuts to Stabilize Global Energy Markets

Saudi Arabia and Russia Extend Oil Production Cuts to Stabilize Global Energy Markets

The Kremlin announced today, Wednesday, that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call to stress the importance of reducing oil supplies, in order to ensure the stability of global energy markets. On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia and Russia announced the extension of their voluntary cuts in oil production … Read more

Protests in As-Suwayda: Demonstrators Remove Picture of Hafez al-Assad and Destroy Statue in Anti-Regime Protests.

Protests in As-Suwayda: Demonstrators Remove Picture of Hafez al-Assad and Destroy Statue in Anti-Regime Protests.

Demonstrators in the city of As-Suwayda, southern Syria, removed a large picture of the father of the head of the Syrian regime, Hafez al-Assad, decades old, from Karama Square, and destroyed a statue of his head, in conjunction with the entry of their popular protests against the Syrian regime into its third week. Dozens of … Read more

Food Security and Public Safety at Risk: The Growing Epidemic of Digestive Diseases and Poisoning in Lebanon

Food Security and Public Safety at Risk: The Growing Epidemic of Digestive Diseases and Poisoning in Lebanon

It seems that the institutional disintegration coupled with the depletion of all of Lebanon’s natural and environmental capabilities, in addition to the absence of any preventive or decisive measures, contributes to the current erosion of food security and public safety. It is not strange today to hear about the spread of more diseases and epidemics … Read more

First Film Co-Produced by Israeli and Iranian Filmmakers: “Tatami” Screens at Venice Film Festival

First Film Co-Produced by Israeli and Iranian Filmmakers: “Tatami” Screens at Venice Film Festival

One of the expected cinematic events in the last edition of the Venice Film Festival (Venice) is the screening of the first feature film co-produced by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers: “Tatami”, directed by the Israeli Guy Nativ and the Iranian Zare Amir Ibrahimi. The film, which was co-written by the Iranian-French Iranian, Elham Erfani, co-directed, … Read more

The Impact of Dollar Price Volatility and Currency Speculation: Methods Used by Money Changers and the Current State of the Dollar

The Impact of Dollar Price Volatility and Currency Speculation: Methods Used by Money Changers and the Current State of the Dollar

At the height of dollar price volatility about a year ago, money changers and currency speculators devised many methods to push people to give up the dollar and make additional profits. Among those methods is not accepting the old edition of dollar bills, that is, those that do not contain the blue line designed to … Read more

Hidden Fortnightly Budget: The Absence of Financial Transparency in Banque du Liban

Hidden Fortnightly Budget: The Absence of Financial Transparency in Banque du Liban

Nine days have passed since the supposed date for publishing the fortnightly budget, which the Banque du Liban used to disclose in the middle and beginning of each month, without the bank having published this budget until now. And on the official website of the Banque du Liban, the budget that was published at the … Read more

Remembering Ibrahim Golestan: The Iconic Iranian Director and Storyteller

Remembering Ibrahim Golestan: The Iconic Iranian Director and Storyteller

The Iranian director, storyteller and novelist Ibrahim Golestan (his real name is Ibrahim Taqwa Shirazi) passed away at the age of 101. He is a director, writer, translator and journalist who produced and directed many Iranian films and is famous for his special style of directing. Rather, he is one of the founders of the … Read more

Lebanon Facing New Wave of COVID-19: Rizk Hospital Implements Preventive Measures

Lebanon Facing New Wave of COVID-19: Rizk Hospital Implements Preventive Measures

Lebanon is witnessing a new wave of the Corona virus, which has returned to spread globally after the new mutant overcame the previously acquired immunity. Rizk Hospital has circulated to workers in all departments to take health preventive measures and to wear a face mask, after the increasing number of coronavirus infections in the hospital. … Read more

Elena Poniatowska Receives Carlos Fuentes International Award for Literary Creativity in the Spanish Language

Elena Poniatowska Receives Carlos Fuentes International Award for Literary Creativity in the Spanish Language

Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska, 91 years old, won the Carlos Fuentes International Award for “Literary Creativity in the Spanish Language” 2023, becoming the fourth woman to reach this achievement. This award is awarded by the Mexican Ministry of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to writers who, through their works, … Read more