The Lebanese love of loud engines and sleek curves has lured to its shores a classic automotive racing icon, Lotus. Lebanon is to be the brand’s launchpad into the flush …
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Dipping my head to walk onto an Air France flight at Beirut’s Rafiq Hariri International Airport last month, I suddenly found myself sitting next to some familiar faces. To one …
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When the Berlin Wall fell, taking the old Soviet bloc with it, the same should have happened to its client states across the Middle East. But as per usual, we …
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Las Palmas sprawls along the coast of the third largest of the Canary Islands archipelago, scattered in the warm seas just beyond the northwest coast of Africa. From a satellite’s …
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Assuming that the optimists are correct, our country could see some $140 billion stream into the economy from oil and gas revenues in the next 20-odd years. When 3.5 times …
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Since the Israeli assault in the summer of 2006 we have known that the next war on Lebanon would likely be one of economics, not arms, and that the targets …
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The year began with hope — it was contagious after seeing Tunisians rise up and send the tyrant Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fleeing the presidential palace for exile in Saudi …
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The current Lebanese government is, in economic terms, as dangerous as a blind man with a loaded gun and an itchy trigger finger. To date, it has shown little to …
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The current Lebanese government is, in economic terms, as dangerous as a blind man with a loaded gun and an itchy trigger finger. To date, it has shown little to …
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In different ways, both the Syrian people who are rising up against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as well as the regime itself, are pushing the limits of their …