Key economic data for the six polities and jurisdictions yield limited or indirect information on the impact of armed interstate and asymmetric Arab-Israeli conflicts and specifically the October 7, 2023 …
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This analysis was written as part of a Special Report on the repercussions of war across six polities from October 7th, 2023-December 2025 Two narrative strands of economic disintegration and …
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What defines a war in the modern age is in principle simple – exchange of violence in a state of declared conflict – and yet highly complicated in its applications …
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Just having celebrated its centennial, the Lebanese American University is starting its second century as an institution that is deeply invested in Lebanon’s socioeconomic transformation. A glancing view at the …
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The human being by conventional wisdom and scientific study is to a very large part a creature of habit. Discovering and applying the principles that allow individuals and businesses to …
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The critical acceleration of Lebanon’s deeply entrenched housing crisis can be easily attributed to the degradation of the country’s building stock due to the Hezbollah – Israel war and Israeli …
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No one could deny that the Lebanese inhabit a land after which many would-be military conquerors but also political expansionists and economic investors lust. There is ample evidence that this …
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Walking the warrens of old Beirut neighborhoods, driving along rural roads where one illogical turn follows the other, or traipsing past private and public white elephant real estate projects that …
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Once upon a time, in a tiny, almost mythical land tugged away from the rest of the world on the far eastern shore of the Middle Ocean, people were gifted …
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For conscientious merchants, panic buying is a menace. Generally, there are few things that individual merchants can do to discourage people from hoarding of essential goods. But when fears over …