Emile Khoury, 36, is chairman of the Young Arab Leaders’ Lebanon chapter. He is also the chairman and CEO of Virgin Megastore in Lebanon and managing director of CIEL, a …
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Dear Executive readers, The Young Arab Leaders (YAL) section in the Executive Magazine is a platform through which you will learn about a few of our goals, initiatives and the …
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Dear Executive readers, As a pan-Arab non-governmental organization, Young Arab Leaders (YAL) has kept up with the current local, regional and global developments in order to anticipate trends and adapt …
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This month, Executive features a special section on the Young Arab Leaders (YAL) organization. The YAL brings together professional men and women in the Arab world, all under the age …
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“The banking secrecy of the past must come to an end,” said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a press conference marking the end of the G-20 summit in London …
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The biggest voluntary debt exchange outside the US was successfully completed by the Lebanese government in March when it “rolled over” $2.3 billion worth of foreign currency bonds. The government …
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The Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) launched in March had been a long time coming, like a financial version of the play “Waiting for Godot.” Year after year, articles would emerge …
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Everyone has heard about the Lebanese expatriates who send money back home — a foundation of the country’s economy. But there is also a significant foreign workforce in Lebanon. Domestic …
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Blonde girls in hiking boots and backpacks sightsee downtown. Men in clean white dishdashas walk on the corniche at sunset. Lost Americans haggle unsuccessfully with taxi drivers in Hamra. All …
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Rony H. moved to Dubai in 2003 in the midst of the city’s building boom, and eventually got a job in the red-hot property market. By 2007 he worked as …