The comparatively simple question of this analytical overview, which ardently aims to avoid falling for any side’s propaganda in the latest Arab-Israeli armed conflict since …
A simple question
The comparatively simple question of this analytical overview, which ardently aims to avoid falling for any side’s propaganda in the latest Arab-Israeli armed conflict since 1948, is an economic one. …
Healing in the ruins
In Gaza’s hospitals, the daily struggle for life is inseparable from the fight to manage scarce resources and staff numbers, and to find innovative solutions within impossible constraints. Doctors, nurses, …
An economy of future peace
In terms of number estimates, what do you see as the total cost of Lebanon’s recovery from war damages and economic meltdown, and what would you say the opportunity costs …
Lebanon’s strategic sectors
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 …
Syria’s precarious reawakening
In the attempt to assess the regional economic reverberations echoing out from two years of conflict triggered on October 7, 2023, Syria stands apart as somewhat of an outlier. Given …
Economy and policy
Business
Before March 2026, the obstacles to recovery for Lebanon’s fractured economy were Herculean, but not completely hopeless. Standing in the way of reform were entrenched …
Opinion
The recent Israeli airstrikes on the south of Lebanon have revealed a calculated shift in Israel’s military strategy. The deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and …
