Fadi Daou

Nous n'oublierons pas Les 218 victimes Les milliers de blessés Et tout le peuple pris en otage. #BeirutExplosion #BeirutBlast #August4

@paul_salem @karimbitar @CSIS Congrats Paul for this move and best wishes.

After thirteen rewarding years with the Middle East Institute, and before that seven years with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, I am thrilled to be joining the Center For Strategic and International Studies @CSIS Middle East Program led by @Mona_Yacoubian as a Non-Resident Senior Associate based in Beirut. I look forward to working with Mona and the outstanding CSIS team on critical issues related to Lebanon and the broader Middle East. csis.org/people/paul-sa…

"Once hatred becomes morally justified in the mind of an individual, violence becomes easier to normalize."

Claude Monet

White Cherry Tree from Japan 🇯🇵

Gustave Mahler : « La tradition n’est pas le culte des cendres, mais la transmission du feu ».

"Les clefs de la liberté" 8 mai. Voir absolument ces 4 minutes de film si fortes. Wim Wenders, grand cinéaste, grand Européen, raconte la nuit où la capitulation de l'Allemagne fut signée à Reims. Via @AllemagneDiplo

النشيد الوطني اللبناني والعلم اللبناني يرفرف على منصة التتويج احتفالاً بفوز كريستوفر عبدو فغالي بالمركز الأول في سباق اليوروكاب٣ على حلبة پول ريكارد الفرنسية. الحلم يقترب برؤية لبناني في الفورمولا وان قريباً

🇮🇱 A Catholic nun was shoved at King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem; a 36-year-old was arrested. Clergy in the Old City face rising spitting, attacks, and harassment despite "condemnations". A city sacred to 3 religions isn’t protecting those coming to pray.

This 2 hour Harvard interview with Lee Kuan Yew, the man who turned Singapore from a tiny island into one of the richest nations on Earth, will teach you more about leadership, discipline, and nation-building than most business books ever will.

@RaniaAlMashat @UN @antonioguterres @UNESCWA مبروك وكل التوفيق

يُشرفني اختياري من قبل الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة @UN @antonioguterres، لأتولى منصب وكيل الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة والأمين التنفيذي للجنة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لغربي آسيا @UNESCWA.

Vincent van Gogh

Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the plains of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, in the Occupied West Bank. “I've cared for these olive trees for 40 years, just as I cared for my own children,” says Fuad Daraghmeh, owner of some of the uprooted trees. #Palestine #Israel #OccupiedWestBank

The Moon, Earth and the milkyway in one incredible photo.

One of the greatest and oldest special effects in history can be witnessed in Rome today And it has been playing out, on cue, for nearly 2000 years... Each year on April 21, the traditional birthday of Rome — the legendary date Romulus founded the city in 753 BC — the midday sun pierces the oculus at the crown of the Pantheon's dome and casts a perfect disk of light that settles squarely on the temple's entrance. For roughly two minutes and fifty seconds, the bronze doors blaze gold... At that exact moment, the Emperor would step across the threshold, his body swallowed in sunlight, as though the heavens themselves were handing him the city. Hadrian's engineers designed the entire building as a cosmos in miniature: the interior is exactly 43.3 metres wide and 43.3 metres tall, meaning a perfect sphere fits inside it. The Roman senator Cassius Dio wrote that the vaulted roof was meant to resemble the heavens themselves...

Claude Monet, Impresión, sol naciente (detalle), 1872

I can't handle this level of cuteness...

Van Gogh often set vibrant yellows against cooler backgrounds like blue-violet night skies. The contrast creates a halo-like glow, as the bright yellows blaze against the darker tones. #artbots #vangogh

Thank you Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland for upholding the European values and commitment to Human rights, and reminding Brussels that double standards are in contradiction with these fundamental values. gov.ie/en/department-…