Category Archives: Viva!

When Beirut Was At Its Most Beautiful In Years | A Separate State of Mind | A Lebanese Blog

On August 29th, 2015, Beirut not only had us, but it had enough of us to make it the most beautiful it’s been in years. Yesterday evening, Beirut was gorgeous. It was our own city finding its voice again, finding its calling again, finding its own identity again.Beirut is nothing without its streets that should be filled with people. Yesterday, we filled its heart. Beirut is nothing without a beating center. Yesterday, Martyrs’ Square was beating in tachycardia. Beirut is nothing without us. Yesterday, we were Beirut.Over 100,000 people gathered yesterday in Martyrs’ Square to say enough is enough. They chanted against the system. They chanted for their rights. They chanted with every ounce of voice they had in them for the causes they believed in.

Source: When Beirut Was At Its Most Beautiful In Years | A Separate State of Mind | A Lebanese Blog

Rare Photographs of The Rolling Stones in France Taken by Dominique Tarlé in the 1970s

Every fan of the Stones knows the name and history of the photographs taken at the Villa Nellcôte in Villefranche sur Mer, where Dominique Tarlé spent 6 months with the group during the recording of Exile on Mainstreet.

In 1971, The Rolling Stones, swindled by their manager, were fleeing British taxes. The members of the group settled in the South of France, and during a visit to Keith Richards’ home in April, 1977, Dominique Tarlé shot a few portraits of the Richards family. That evening, as he was thanking his hosts for the lovely evening, Keith uttered the magical and decisive sentence, “But your room is ready,” thus inviting the young photographer into both his villa and his private life.

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Although Black people were present in Britain in… – People of Color in European Art History

Although Black people were present in Britain in the Roman and medieval periods, and  there has been a continuous settlement of people of African heritage from the sixteenth century to today, Black peoples’ experiences and also the role they have played in shaping British history has often been hidden or marginalised. Up until recent decades, Black British history pre-1945 was little examined in public discourse and academic history writing.

Las Iguanas faces backlash over ‘grossly unfair’ tipping policy

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Online petition calls on restaurant to abandon rule whereby waiters pay their employer 3% of table sales

The restaurant chain Las Iguanas is coming under increasing pressure from staff and diners to change a controversial tipping policy as thousands of consumers brand the practice “grossly unfair and entirely unnecessary”.

Related: Restaurants’ tipping policy ‘forces waiters to pay to work’

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How can we call ourselves civilised while women are victims of barbarity? | John Kerry and Philip Hammond

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The abhorrent sexual violence waged by groups such as Isis and Boko Haram must be countered by governments and at local levels

In Syria and Iraq, Isis terrorists have turned kidnapping and the sale of women and girls into recruitment and fundraising tools. Thousands of women have been enslaved and raped. In Somalia and Nigeria, terrorists have abducted scores of young women to force them into sham “marriages” characterised by degradation and abuse.

These practices are a stain on the conscience of the world. Sexual abuse is not a legitimate tactic of conflict or war. Women and girls are not slaves to be awarded to terrorist fighters. And mislabelling this abuse as “marriage” does not alter the reality that rape is rape and rape is wrong.

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