Step into almost any café or shared workspace in Beirut and a particular scene repeats itself: young professionals working for economies they may never see. Screens glow with design drafts, …

A government’s highest duty is the dignified sustenance of its polity. Governments empowered by their people are accountable to them, and the Lebanese state has a profound reckoning ahead. The …

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 attempts at reconstruction, from excavators …

When I launched Becoming Social in the summer of 2024 in Tripoli, the economic hub of North Lebanon, I knew the odds weren’t in my favor. Tripoli wasn’t exactly known …

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 …