An exploration of mortgage finance opportunities at a time of daily bombings and property destruction seems to be an anything but natural thing to do. Investing into a new home …
Thomas Schellen

Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen is Executive's editor-at-large. He has been reporting on Middle Eastern business and economy for over 20 years. Send mail
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In this interview with Atef Idriss, CEO of MENA Food Safety Associates (MEFOSA), the Executive Magazine addresses issues related to food security in Lebanon given the current ongoing war. Moreover, …
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It is another summer of conflict and despair in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which is to say that a sad saga of displacements, deprivation, and humanitarian aid dependency of an …
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What social and economic science often calls a shock event is something that heavily impacts the moment but transpires into much more consequential long-term changes of the previous status quo. …
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Social emergencies, safety nets, and refugee issues have taken center stage in Lebanese public debates since the country’s rapid descent into economic misery more than four years ago. Along with …
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The Pournara Emergency Reception Center has a bureaucratically correct name, a politically correct security fence, a totemic gate arch, a well managed access and information procedure for visiting delegations, and …
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Mental planning exercises for a more difficult world may be appropriate for G7 countries or risk summits at the World Economic Forum. Countries in the Middle East crisis region are …
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The examples from Migrantonomics 201 are just seeking to illustrate the pointlessness of uneconomic rants where combative but uncertain data, meaning data referenced without clear identification of their sources and …
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When averaged over the year, the migration 2024 topic is even hotter than this summer’s peak temperature. In a year hyper-charged with political elections, the past few months have cast …
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There is no denying that Lebanon’s territorial sovereignty has especially in recent months been heavily violated. Not a dozen or a hundred times, mind you; it has been transgressed against …