Monday, March 06, 2006
Zad Moultaka's concert-as-contest keeps audience guessing

By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff

Review

BEIT MERY: On Saturday night, the Lebanese pianist and composer Zad Moultaka preformed a concert of Mozart and Haydn sonatas that was both meticulous and sharp, and, contrary to one's usual expectations of a serious classical music recital, loose and fun as well. For the Bustan Festival's two-month-long season celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, Moultaka structured his concert as a game. He took two sonatas each by Mozart and Hadyn and mixed up the total of twelve movements.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Paris street theater occupies Al-Bustan Festival
Les Grooms present an amusing brass band arrangement of 'The Magic Flute'

By Jim Quilty
Daily Star staff

BEIRUT: "Quel est votre prenom?"

"My favorite pronoun?" You blink at the small-ish woman in the bellboy's outfit who's just escorted you to your seat. "'You,' I guess. What's yours?"

Thursday, February 23, 2006
13th Al-Bustan Festival brings Mozart to Beit Mery
Classical music event overcomes losses of 2005 to continue in 2006

By Ramsay Short
Daily Star staff

BEIRUT: A year ago in these pages I wrote of the necessity for the Al-Bustan Festival of Music and Arts to go ahead despite the murder of Rafik Hariri and the prospect of massive unrest in Lebanon.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Gibran Tueni assassinated by car bomb
'When I said goodbye to him this morning, I didn't mean it this way'

By Rym Ghazal

BEIRUT: A car bomb killed outspoken Lebanese journalist and anti Syrian politician Gibran Tueni Monday, a day after returning from Paris where he had received information his life was no longer under threat. At around 9 Monday morning, a booby-trapped Renault car with up to 40 kg of dynamite was exploded by remote control in the Mkalles area as Tueni's armored Range Rover drove by on the way to his office at the An Nahar newspaper in downtown Beirut.

Saturday, December 03, 2005
Beit-Mery municipality makes technological leap

BEIRUT: The Mount Lebanon village of Beit-Mery Ain Saadeh has announced its adoption of the Municipal Geographic Information System (MGIS), becoming one of the first local governments in Lebanon to benefit from the use of advanced technology. The system will facilitate and improve the municapality's administrative, financial and engineering work.