AUGUST 2010
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 1935-2010
A look back on the life of Lebanon
Nicholas Blanford
Sanctions stalk Iran’s free market
Crippled private investment causes state-owned stock ownership to soar
Gareth Smyth
Shifty as a desert fox
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys into the Middle East, with a little help from Rotana
Paul Cochrane
The rial’s slow starve of Yemen
A devaluing rial steals food and stability from a failing state
Alice Fordham
American imports of influence
US trade deals bring Jordan and Egypt further into Israel’s fold
Riad Al-Khouri
FEATURE
Can Lebanon leave the dark ages?
New reform plan could see 24-hour electricity by 2015, if it survives the country’s political minefield
Executive Editors
In the shadows of power
Splitting the country’s grid could deal a stronger hand for sectarianism
Sami Halabi
BANKING
REAL ESTATE
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
Frozen in the past
The Akkar governate struggles to shake itself free from a chronic economic mire
Caroline Anning
CONSUMER SOCIETY
“Those who tell the stories rule society”
From Hollywood to the news, mass media controls our opinions of the world
Mark Helou
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
CAPITALIST CULTURE
A perversion of principles
The West acquiesces to oppressive autocracies amid fears of ascendant Islam
Michael Young
