Fuelled by the continued influx of Arab nationals and capital, Lebanon’s real estate sector continued to grow in 2004 by an estimated 20%. Solidere had an outstanding year, as the …
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Mercedes-importers T. Gargour & Fils were not spared the economic winter that beset the first half of 2005. The company had expected it to be a bumper year with sales …
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Women aren’t allowed to drive there. When they leave the house, they must be accompanied by a male relative. And in public they must wear the all-enveloping abaya at all …
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If the recent spate of air crashes – Athens, Venezuela, Indonesia, Tunisia – were not enough to make us jumpy at the thought of boarding a plane, one only has …
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In the United States today more than a third of all plane tickets are bought on the web, thanks in great part to the fact that 68% of the country’s …
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There’s a 1958, silver-blue Mercedes 190SL convertible in town, and it’s turning heads. In a country where new, shiny and expensive can be a brash entrée into the smart set, …
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The Middle East is witnessing a rise in the number of Arab-published English-language trade magazines, geared specifically towards professionals operating in the region. The surge is being propelled by healthy …
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Wassim Daher would have never imagined when he opened a small multi-brand clothing retail outlet in Hamra in 1978 that over the next 27 years it would grow into a …
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Cover story
As a new government finds its feet, Executive assesses its credentials and looks back at the post-war economic policies and asks if there ever were any
Memories are short. Twelve years on, the man the people had brought down was invited to head a new government. For those who remember the burning tires and momentary anarchy, …
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Menajet, the new, low-cost Lebanese charter airline, is billing itself as the vanguard of no-frills charter business in Lebanon, a challenge that menajet’s chairman and general manager, Riad Mikaoui is …