While the high-rises, gargantuan malls, five-, six- and seven-star hotels, and abundant glitz and glamour are all telling of Dubai’s place as the center of global aviation, much less known …
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Pure commercial plays are a sideline of real estate development in Lebanon when compared with the country’s mixed-use projects, and when measured against large-scale commercial projects elsewhere in the region, …
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The venerable American University of Beirut (AUB) is preparing for a new spring of engendering broad leadership of civil societies in the countries of the Middle East. A recently announced …
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Until the eruption of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, constructive Arab thinking in the mind of many observers appeared stifled and chained to the point of ineffectuality. This state of forced …
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The task of insurance sector supervision in Lebanon is the domain of the Insurance Control Commission, a body attached to the Ministry of Economy and Trade. The ICC team is …
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“The insurance industry has shown its resilience, because it is growing. When we drill down, we see that we have some very good professional companies that have good returns on …
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“[For the real estate market overall], 2012 was one of the most difficult years since 2005. People are used to ups and downs in this country and have learned to …
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The global disaster count was going so well. Throughout the first 10 months of 2012, the financial tally of natural catastrophes for international reinsurers and insurers was a fraction of …
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With the latest cycle of real estate activity, a new generation of developers has sprung up. Some of them have come to the excavation sites with approaches that could be …
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Screech! Honk! And a few polite words. That is what it takes for the 40-ton dump truck on a busy intersection at noontime in the middle of Beirut’s Ashrafieh district …