Once upon a time in the North – before conflicts in the hills of this country were fought to the point of slaughter among cousins – a young women of…
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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When looking through history, the most equitable balance of male and female powers is found in pantheons, antiquity’s cultural projections of superpowers onto goddesses and gods. Take Concordia and Justitia,…
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Seen in isolation, the situation of Lebanon at the onset of 2022 is that of a country which is still in the depths of a mindboggling crisis. The national crisis…
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Published in its fifth draft iteration, this year’s Economic Roadmap is coupled with an important addition of a fifth pillar, enable. It adds seven industry-specific agenda priorities to our menu…
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Tools designed to channel new money into Lebanon’s economy in the start of January 2022 shine in the same way as they did last year: They emit rare vibes of…
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According to stakeholders in the renewable energy (RE) field, Lebanon’s banking sector is largely and conspicuously still absent in meeting the current needs of RE finance. At the time when…
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In the financial crisis, renewable energy has emerged as both a great need and important solution for Lebanese households and enterprises. Executive Magazine talks to Carol Ayat, the energy finance…
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In the most optimistic view (please note: a rarer commodity than real money), there will be a future in Lebanon that is powered up by utility-scale wind farms and solar…
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The supply of growth figures is so poor in Lebanon these days that any economic increase – one that is not a horrid leap in poverty, hunger, unemployment, and inflation…
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The Lebanese government at time of this writing has at its disposal several tools, albeit non-financial, that are ready for deployment in the migration to renewable energy (RE). Two are…