People who not long ago were comfortably middle-class urban dwellers, find themselves thrown into poverty this year, to the point of relying on NGO-provided food aid. From the old to …
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Human catastrophes are inextricably interconnected to each other through the basic sharing of suffering and human compassion. The Palestinian catastrophe in this sense can neither be ignored nor excised from …
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No wonder the Lebanese would rather be Swiss. In a world where global average wealth, according to the 2019 global wealth report (GWR) by Credit Suisse, has approached $71,000 and …
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Two months after the Beirut blast and one year into political and economic disruptions of local identities, the people of Lebanon are finding themselves divided in yet another invisible way. …
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Beirut Port explosionQ&ASpecial Report
Q&A with notorious cyclist Lance Armstrong and investment tycoon Tom Barrack
Diaspora as a state of mental allegiance Viewing the cityscape of Beirut’s Achrafieh district is like an invitation to rethink the meaning and the importance of the Lebanese diaspora, in …
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Banking & InsuranceBusinessBusinessDevelopmentFinanceQ&AQ&A
Lebanon’s Last Chance to Preserve and Create Jobs, is Now
In the context of Lebanon’s existential crisis, Executive inquired about the country’s new economic and social barriers – a mountain of problems formed around a nexus of ginormous poverty, towering …
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Anti-corruptionJudiciaryOpinionQ&ASpecial Report
Q&A with legal expert Paul Morcos on judicial capacity and accountability
They are somewhat remote issues from the perspective of daily survival in the summer of 2020. But the questions of financial accountability and judicial processing of the complex aspects of …
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In discussing Lebanon’s economic survival, some local opinion makers and economists have been making nothing but dire predictions since the fourth quarter of 2019. Executive wanted to take the perspective …
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Moving counter-cyclically to conventional business wisdom and exhibiting disregard for old boundaries are attributes of enterprising minds, of those daring people who start pursuing an economic opportunity without regard for …
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Coronavirus CloseupEntrepreneurshipQ&A
Q&A with Smart ESA’s Jihad Bitar on upcoming hackathon and future plans for the accelerator
The middle of 2020 is seeing three virtual hackathons—the first that are being staged in Lebanon in the space of just two weeks, from June 27 until July 10. Organized …