The vistas around Beirut’s northern gates are changing. For years, the expanse of seaside development in the Dbayeh township was an empty promise of a coming suburbia. Although much of …
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An anchor of the Dubai-based television program Emirates News started her daily run through of the headlines one recent evening by reporting that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler …
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Ferrying about 1 million passengers from the Middle East to Germany and onward in 2012, Lufthansa continues to make its mark on a region that aviation giants such as Emirates …
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Whether the title is general manager or chief executive, or the role is niche player or regional rover, the best way to dress for survival as an insurance company in …
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Insurance often does not have the most sterling of reputations as a career or a mindset — even among insurance professionals. When an up-market British insurance broker last February wrote …
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When economic times are tough for Lebanese companies, insurers get singed. Less international trade means fewer cargo insurance contracts. Less hiring means fewer premiums invested in employee needs. Fewer overland …
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The fortunes of Beirut’s Phoenicia InterContinental are a chronicle of the ups and downs that Lebanon has experienced since the hotel’s construction in the 1950s. Shuttered during the civil war, …
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While Arab countries have recently upheld their warnings against travel to Lebanon, there is still hope that friendlier political winds from the Gulf will allow for a good summer for …
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If you are lucky enough to be able to wander around Qatari households, in every seventh you will find a millionaire — at least that’s what the 2013 Global Wealth …
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The United States has regained the title of the world’s most economically competitive nation, the latest global rankings publication by Swiss business school IMD show. The United Arab Emirates made …