APRIL 2015
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
Healthcare: A
prescription of order
Executive Editors
Executive Editors
Executive Editors
Urban planning:
Throw open the doors
Executive Editors
COVER STORY
New prescription form:
Waiting for (re)forms
The new unified prescription form’s future implementation remains in question
Jeremy Arbid
ECONOMICS & POLICY
ICT: Abdel Moneim
Youssef, a master muddler
A bewildering 40 minutes with Abdel Moneim Youssef
Livia Murray
ICT: Four reasons
Lebanon’s internet is slow
Broadband in Lebanon faces layers of obstacles
Livia Murray
Slaughterhouses: Wael
Abou Faour’s army
Wael Abou Faour’s food safety campaign may not outlive him
Matt Nash
Oil & gas: Lebanon’s
latest onshore survey
The ‘first look’ results from Lebanon’s airborne onshore survey are promising
Matt Nash
Oil & gas comment:
Thinking ahead
Lebanon can learn from Israel’s bumbling regulatory changes for offshore gas
Mona Sukkarieh
Comment: Feeling the
heat
Notorious for their hydrocarbon consumption, Gulf countries are beginning to fight back against climate change
Nicole Purin
BUSINESS
Lebanon’s ski resorts
plan for the future
Lebanon’s ski resorts plan for the future … come snow or shine
Nabila Rahhal
Makdessi Street: A
roller coaster ride
Makdessi Street’s nightlife has dramatically risen and fallen in popularity over the past 10 years
Nabila Rahhal
ArabNet showing signs
of maturity
As ArabNet begins its fifth Beirut conference, it is also showing signs of maturity — and corporatization
Livia Murray
REAL ESTATE
Beirut’s private coast:
Seashore, Inc.
How developers are positioning themselves along Beirut’s western waterfront
Matt Nash
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
LAST WORD
Human capital: How to
entice right
Middle Eastern firms can lure the best and brightest, if only they implement the right strategies
Joe Saddi and George Sarraf and James Thomas