Culture Beirut

1 culture

1.1 museums
1.2 media
1.3 sports
1.4 art , fashion

culture

the garden show & spring festival @ beirut hippodrome

the culture of beirut has evolved under influence of many different peoples , civilizations, such greeks, romans, arabs, ottoman turks , french. law school in downtown beirut 1 of world s earliest , considered leading center of legal studies in eastern roman empire.

beirut hosted francophonie , arab league summits in 2002, , in 2007 hosted ceremony prix albert londres, rewards outstanding francophone journalists every year. city hosted jeux de la francophonie in 2009. in same year proclaimed world book capital unesco.

beirut has been called party capital of arab world . rue monnot has international reputation among clubbers, , rue gouraud in districts such gemmayze , mar mikhael have emerged new hotspots bar patrons , clubbers, alleyway in hamra street.

museums

the national museum of beirut



sursock museum

the national museum of beirut principal museum of archaeology in lebanon. has 1,300 exhibits ranging in date prehistoric times medieval mamluk period. archaeological museum of american university of beirut third oldest museum in middle east, exhibiting wide range of artifacts lebanon , neighboring countries. sursock museum built illustrious sursock family @ end of 19th century private villa nicolas sursock, , donated lebanese state upon death. houses beirut s influential , popular art museum. permanent collection shows set of japanese engravings, numerous works of islamic art , classic italian paintings, while temporary exhibitions shown throughout year. robert mouawad private museum near beirut s grand serail exhibits henri pharaon s private collection of archaeology , antiques.

planet discovery children s science museum interactive experiments, exhibitions, performances, workshops , awareness competitions. saint joseph university opened museum of lebanese prehistory in 2000, first prehistory museum in arabic middle east, displaying bones, stone tools , neolithic pottery collected jesuits.

in october 2013, mim museum, private mineral museum, opened doors public. has on display 1600 minerals more 60 countries. mim museum s collection considered 1 of world s paramount private collection variety , quality of minerals. didactic circuit, accompanied screens showing films , scientific applications of mineralogy, reveal world of unsuspected marvels—priceless both aesthetic , scientific point of view. mimodactylus libanensis “mimo”, fossil of pterodactyl featured in special wing. one-of-a-kind complete specimen in middle-east found in lebanon. promoted means of state-of-the-art modern techniques: hologram, auto-stereoscopic movie, full-scale reconstitution , game “fly mimo” – entertainment delights children , adults. moreover, mim hosts thematic exhibition of 200 marine fossils. “fish’n’stone” organized collaboration of mémoire du temps. known throughout world, fossils quarried in lebanese mountains. history of fossil formation shown through animation submerses in marine life – time capsule takes in journey 100 million of years ago.

media

beirut main center television, newspaper, , book publishing industries.

television stations based in beirut include télé liban, lbc, Ótv (orange tv), mtv lebanon, tele lumiere (catholic tv), future tv, new tv, nbn, anb , saudi tv 1 on 33 uhf , mbc 1, mbc 4, mbc action, fox, al jazeera, rotana, osn first, osn news, al yawm , arabic series channel on 45 uhf.

newspapers include an-nahar, al joumhouria, as-safir, al mustaqbal, al-akhbar, al-balad, ad-diyar, al anwar, al sharq.

newspapers , magazines published in french include l orient le jour (since 1971), la revue du liban, al balad-french version, al intiqad, magazine l hebdo , la commerce du levant.

english newspapers published in beirut daily star, executive magazine (weekly), beirut online, beirut times (weekly) , monday morning.

sports

the lebanese capital hosted mediterranean games in 1959, fiba asia champions cup in 1999, 2000, 2012, afc asian cup in 2000, , fiba asia cup in 2010. beirut host city 6th annual games of jeux de la francophonie in 2009. beirut hosted pan arab games in 1957, 1997, , did again in 2015. in 2017, beirut host 2017 fiba asia cup.

beirut, sidon , tripoli, hosted 2000 afc asian cup. there 2 stadiums in city, camille chamoun sports city stadium , beirut municipal stadium.

basketball popular sport in lebanon. currently, 4 beirut teams play in lebanese basketball league: hekmeh, sporting al riyadi beirut, homenetmen beirut , hoops.

other sports events in beirut include annual beirut marathon, hip ball, weekly horse racing @ beirut hippodrome, , golf , tennis tournaments take place @ golf club of lebanon. 3 out of 5 teams in lebanese rugby league championship based in beirut.

art , fashion

beirut souks shopping mall

there hundreds of art galleries in beirut , suburbs. every year hundreds of fine art students graduate universities , institutions. artist workshops exist on lebanon. inauguration of beirut art center, non-profit association, space , platform dedicated contemporary art in lebanon, in mkalles suburb of beirut added number of exhibition spaces available in city, screening , performance room, mediatheque, bookstore, cafe , terrace. adjacent latter ashkal alwan home workspace, venue hosting cultural events , educational programs.

a number of international fashion designers have displayed work in big fashion shows. major fashion labels have shops in beirut s shopping districts, , city home number of local fashion designers, of whom elie saab, yara farhat, reem acra, zuhair murad, georges chakra, georges hobeika, jean faris, nicolas jebran, rabih kayrouz , abed mahfouz have achieved international fame.

beirut home dynamic street art scene has developed after lebanese civil war, 1 of notable street artists yazan halwani known produce largest murals on walls of beirut in areas such gemmayzeh, hamra, verdun , achrafieh.