Q&A with the team behind jobsforlebanon

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They want to bring jobs to jobs-starved Lebanon. They also want to do something that has been tried many times and rarely been crowned by success: mobilize direct investments into Lebanon from the country’s large global diaspora. Specifically, they want to seed job investments—work opportunities that can be located anywhere in the world, yet be done by people in Lebanon. They have combined both missions into one vision that they are chasing. “They” are a cheerful group of successful expat professionals with a brand-new online venture that can be found at jobsforlebanon.com. To learn more, Executive talked, naturally remotely by video conference, with jobsforlebanon (J4L) team members Roy Baladi and Neal El-Jor Taouk in San Francisco, Natasha-Christina Akda in New York, and Yalda Aoukar in London.   As you are telling me, your initiative for creating jobs for Lebanon has met with a very positive initial response and is moreover already