Olive trees have their homes around the Mediterranean Sea. Britannica says they are cultivated commercially in two world-spanning climate belts between approximately the 30th and 45th latitudes North and South. …
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Along with other ministries, the Ministry of Economy and Trade (MoET) constitutes the administrative framework of enabling institutions for food security in Lebanon. To understand the MoET’s recent initiatives in …
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It was a sequence of electrifying experiences for a kid from the German provinces. It began withlooking in awe around the grand movie theater in no less than Leicester Square, …
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The Souk El Tayeb farmers’ market on Beirut’s Armenia Street has an established feel to it. There are many regulars to be seen on both sides of the small stands. …
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Markets were the first places where food security was achieved in a commercial context. It can be philosophically presumed that the other conduits of prehistoric food security consisted of charitable …
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The village of Kfarmishki in the western Bekaa hugs a hillside. Its apparent central intersection, whose main features include a roadside bench and a resilient donkey, takes three seconds to …
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In Lebanon, 46 percent of households are food insecure – a figure likely to rise in the coming months as state subsidies on essential imports like cooking oil, bread and …
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Unrest among depositors and citizens has taken new shapes in recent weeks. Tempers are out of control in the face of inactive decision makers and silent banks. The current time …
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AnalysisBanking & FinanceSpecial Report
The legality and the perceptions of banking based in Lebanon
To the interest of anyone who is not a part of the political and banking power ensemble, an absurd theater of dance and song is being played out on the …
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“You can take it to the bank,” is an idiomatic expression commonly uttered by someone – usually a politician or manly man with business power – to express a very …