Iraqi-Chilean actress and director, Ishtar Yasin, is invited by the University of Balamand in the framework of its cinema cycle to present her film "El Camino" (The Way), awarded in many international festivals.

Having been selected by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture as the cinematic ambassador for Beirut World Book Capital 2009; Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab announced her top new movie “What’s going on”.

Mansour Rahbani was born in Antelias (1925), and was grown up surrounded with artistic environment . He pursued his studies at the Ibreen Sisters School of Antelias , Farid Abou Fadel School , Kamal Moukarzel School and the Jesuit School at Bikfaya .

Renowned Lebanese composer Mansour Rahbani died on 13th of January following a bout of pneumonia, leaving a legacy of innovation in the music and theater of Lebanon and the wider Arab world.

Leila Karam (Arabic: ليلى كرم‎) is a famous Lebanese actress. Her major contribution were in the 70th and 80th in many Lebanese and Egyptian movies, plays and many TV series during the golden age of Tele Liban. she died on December 2nd 2008 after a long fight with her illness.

HELP! was pasted all over Beirut in February on bright blue posters advertising the new Lebanese film addressing sex, prostitution, drugs and homelessness. But anticipation for the movie, which cost over $200,000 to make, came to nothing.

Lebanese singer and theatre actress Salwa al-Katrib passed away at Hôtel-Dieu de France hospital on  March 05, 2009. She had been hospitalized three days ago in a coma state, suffering from a brain hemorrhage. Her situation did not improve since.

Oscar-nominated film "Waltz with Bashir," about the Sabra and Shatila massacres, cannot be shown in Lebanon because of the country's boycott of Israeli products, the information minister said.

PPOLICE and cinema chiefs have clashed about outbreaks of violence that have resulted in a critically-acclaimed film about Lebanese gangs being pulled from theatres across the state.