Interviews

Prestige international July 1999
In tribute to former deputy and minister Elie Skaff, Prestige reproduces an interview, where he tells about his uncommon life, how he was uprooted during his young age and his triumphal comeback to Zahle.

Prestige issue 34, March 1996
Skillful fingers fix colors and nodes on a NAWL. Leaning on her loom, a Bedouin revives the tradition and takes one to one every thousand gestures. She suddenly looks up and raises her arms. A woman walks toward her, very beautiful, with simple majesty. It’s her! Exclamations broke out in the workshop ...

Prestige issue 49, June 1997
A name that raises so much values, so many memories: beauty, culture, cosmopolitanism ... and the memory of a festival that embraced the columns of Baalbeck.

Prestige issue 259, February 2015
To mark the 250th anniversary of Baccarat, Manasseh, exclusive agent of the brand in Lebanon, celebrated the event in the presence of Mathias, designer and creator of the House. In a long interview with Prestige, Mathias tells his fascinating story with Baccarat, the most famous international manufacture of glassware.

Prestige issue 80, January 2000
The press in Lebanon also had its heyday, its golden age in which, although young, it was able to assert itself as the fourth power. Some men have made this press, have forged it. Men who marked history, as discreetly and as effectively as politicians. Youssef Hitti was one of them. Founding a newspaper was then an adventure, and writing a paper an exercise of literature. Emeritus Pen, founder of the cedar of Lebanon in Rio de Janeiro in 1916,

Prestige issue 81, February 2000
The night of his birthday on December 20th 1999, in his sanctuary at Doha-Aramoun, that few could visit, we have an appointment with Salim Hoss. After meeting him at his home in Aisha Bakkar in Beirut for a first interview, two days later the Prime Minister invites us to his villa in Doha that he built «stone by stone, a part of myself».