The Sursock Palace, home of one of Lebanon’s most eminent families, stands less than a kilometre from the port. Every window in the Venetian-style mansion was blown out.

The Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon and the Samir Kassir Foundation have announced the results of the 20th edition of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, in a ceremony held at ...

Choir singers perform at a concert for the victims of August's deadly Beirut blast in the gardens of the damaged 19th-century Sursock Palace in Achrafieh in the Lebanese capital on September 20, 2020.

This year, a record 372 journalists participated in the competition, hailing from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. 125 ...

The Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press was held on Tuesday at Sursock Palace in Beirut. The annual event is organised by the Samir Kassir Foundation with EU financing. Mr Kassir was killed on ...

In the aftermath of the blast, art historian Gregory Buchakjian published an article identifying two paintings in the ...

For decades, “Hercules and Omphale” hung in the Sursock Palace, a private and opulent mid-19th century townhouse owned by Beirut’s Sursock family for five generations.

A receipt from the family showed that the painting entered the Sursock collection from an art dealer in Naples, where Gentileschi lived the later years of her life. At the time of the explosion, the ...