With private finance still in its infancy in Syria, private equity has yet to get up and running, but the foundations are being laid for a sector that could be …
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Fitting in to what appears to be the private sector’s modus operandi when investing in Syria in the wake of economic reform, private airlines are only this year taking to …
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Regional companies are running toward their local public markets, leaving a trail of prospectuses behind them and welcoming individual and institutional investors from across the Middle East and abroad to …
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Sporting funky glasses, a hipster beard and a ponytail, Muhammad Ali Mansour stands proudly in front of his modest convenience store in urban Beirut. He had been an employee …
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The Beirut Container Terminal, the center of Lebanese maritime trade, located in the Port of Beirut has an illustrious history to live up to. As the motto of the …
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Recently, BLOM Invest has launched an investment fund, the BLOM Cedars Balanced Fund. The fund is an open-ended mutual fund with weekly subscriptions and redemptions. It is a balanced fund …
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Garbage is a nuisance. It threatens public health and nature, as well as sticking around for generations to come. Disposing of it is an issue with which every country has …
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February was an unsettling month in Lebanon and not just on the political front. On February 15, the country experienced a earthquake that registered 5.1 on the Richter scale, …
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Mobile phone usage has exploded in Africa over the last decade, with 197.4 million mobile phone users in 2006, up from just 25.3 million in 2001, according to the UN’s …
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Never good, the dusty red roads of South Sudan’s capital, Juba, have been further potholed and haphazardly widened by the steady increase in traffic since peace between north and south …