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Lebanon Travel Guide – Expert advice and holiday information featuring Beirut’s nightlife and cuisine, archaeological sites, political and religious history. Also including suggested hiking routes, volunteering, UNESCO sites such as Byblos, Tyre, Baalbek and Qadisha Valley, skiing and cycling, Mount Lebanon, medieval architecture and culture.

1. Joe , Pickard

Beirut

Beirut is a Mediterranean destination driven by adrenaline, optimism and the energy of a populace who embrace high jinks - and it fulfils its status as capital with an urban panache that's unmistakably Lebanese.The Monocle Travel Guide to Beirut delves into this metropolis to explore the vivacious thrum of life and unpick its many and varied quirks. We'll lead you through a collage of cloud-scraping hotels, Ottoman-style palaces and golden age modernist apartments, and introduce you to small-scale fashion labels and smart shop-owners rethinking traditional handicrafts. We'll also direct you to our favoured tables, where you can feast on mezze and sip on a soothing glass of arak. And when you need a reprieve from the excitement of it all, hang your hat at one of the city's best examples of Lebanese hospitality, whether it be a five-star chain or a four-room family-run guesthouse.The heady pull of this seaside capital is magnetic. So dive into the pace of life (and the Med while you're at it) and discover all that this Middle Eastern beacon has to offer.The magazine Monocle covers the world with its network of bureaus in New York, Toronto, Zurich, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Tokyo, and Singapore. It also employs more than 30 dedicated correspondents-in cities from Bangkok to Bogotá, São Paolo to Stockholm-as well as a team of on-the-road reporters based out of its headquarters in London. This team's deep understanding of cities and all they have to offer has now been compiled in The Monocle Travel Guide Series.

1. Wolfgang , Orians

Weinheim für Entdecker*innen

Weinheim ist eine der schönsten Städte an der Bergstraße. Aber die Stadt hat außer dem Marktplatz, den Burgen und dem Hermannshof noch vieles mehr zu bieten: verwunschene Weiler im Odenwald, wenig besuchte Seitenstraßen und eine hochinteressante Industriegeschichte. In diesem Buch zeigen wir Ihnen besondere Wege durch Weinheim. Ihre "Stadtführerinnen" sind Menschen, die schon ihr ganzes Leben lang in der hier leben oder die Weinheim zu ihrer Wahlheimat erkoren haben. Freuen Sie sich auf neue Einblicke und ungewöhnliche Sichtweisen auf alte Schönheiten.In dieser Neuauflage haben wir unsere Gastrotipps ausgebaut, vom wunderbaren Café Caramel bis zum Gasthaus Rose mit dem Caterina-Valente-Zimmer in Oberflockenbach.Außerdem stellen wir Ihnen zwei Weinheimerinnen neu vor: Eine von ihnen war Europas Fußballerin des Jahres, deutsche Meisterin, dreimal Europameisterin und Vize-Weltmeisterin. Die Rede ist von Heidi Mohr, ohne die der Frauenfußball in Deutschland nicht so weit wäre wie er ist.Die andere heißt Aleksandra Mikulska, ist in Warschau geboren, Professorin für Klavier in Dresden, eine international anerkannte Konzertpianistin - und wohnt in Ritschweier.

Mounira Al Solh

For the Lebanese Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Mounira Al Solh has been invited to create a bridge between myth and reality. Her installation, A Dance with her Myth , is about the abduction of the Phoenician princess Europa by the god Zeus, who disguised himself as a white bull. The artist reinterprets this ancient myth from a contemporary perspective. The catalogue includes several texts on the significance of the monumental 41-part installation. MOUNIRA AL SOLH (*1978 Beirut, Lebanon) is a multidisciplinary artist, working with painting and drawing, text, embroidery, recorded sound, sculptures, video and performative gestures. Growing up during the Lebanese Civil War in Lebanon, Al Solh's works bear witness to the impact of conflict and displacement in the region. She deals with ongoing social and feminist struggles, while her work can be political and poetically escapist at once. She lives and works between Lebanon and the Netherlands.

1. Andrée , Sfeir-Semler
2. Hala el , Rayess
3. Catherine , David

Aref el Rayess

The Lebanese artist Aref el Rayess (1928-2005) pro-duced an impressive oeuvre of paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures, that remains largely unstudied. Rayess was an independent thinker, a political man and a free spirit. He lived in many places and his works reflect the spirit of those respective countries, times and art scenes. The subjects of his works range from individuals and society, abstraction and nature. His style changed constantly, but always remained unmistakable. This first monograph is dedicated to Aref el Rayess's multifaceted artistic practice, focussing specifically on his paintings between 1949 and 2005. AREF EL RAYESS (1928-2005) studied art in Paris with Fernand Léger, among others, and resided in Lebanon, France, and Italy. With the onset of the civil war in 1975, he relocated to Saudi Arabia, where he assumed the role of art commissioner for the city of Jeddah. Rayess actively participated in exhibitions worldwide.

1. Geschichte Weltweit

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