As chairman of the Beirut Traders Association, Nicolas Chammas oversees study and research into Lebanon’s commercial sector and lobbies the Lebanese government on behalf of traders. In a chat with …
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While 2011 may yet prove to be a good year for democratic ambitions in the Arab world, it was most certainly not a good one for tourism in Lebanon. Put bluntly, …
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Against a background of flatlining national economic growth, Lebanon’s retailers have suffered a double blow this year, with many big-ticket shoppers from Europe and the Middle East avoiding Beirut for …
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While 2010 saw the launching of five development megaprojects, all in downtown Beirut, this year saw a more modest track of real estate announcements. The biggest by far was the …
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Entrepreneurial fervor among the Lebanese is well established, though the proper support systems to encourage and assist entrepreneurs are only recently improving. Endeavor, a non-profit nongovernmental organization (NGO), which supports …
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Following Lebanon’s skyrocketing success in 2010, this year saw a much calmed real estate sector. Though many buyers have been carefully shopping around and looking for the best deals, most …
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DERMANDAR The concept: Meaning ‘all around’ in Lebanese slang, Dermandar specializes in digital image technologies. The concept is simple: pictures taken with a normal camera can be turned into a …
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After the market trauma of 2011 and the continuing uncertainty, investor expectations heading into 2012 are still sinking, but yet, despite the dread, one must put one’s money somewhere. Thus, …
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Little has improved in Lebanon since Executive’s last year-end report on the environment in December 2010. Air quality continues to deteriorate, urbanization advances almost totally unchecked and water resources remain …
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Telecommunications in Lebanon has come to embody the fault line along which Lebanese business and government split. While the people who use the communications networks try to progress and join …