On May 2nd, television cameras broadcast around the worldimages of jubilant crowds at ‘Ground Zero’ in New York, in front of the WhiteHouse and across the United States celebrating the…
Yasser Akkaoui
Yasser Akkaoui
Yasser Akkaoui is Executive's editor-in-chief.
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Whether or not the accusations against Lebanese Canadian Bank are true, whether or not there is substance to the rumors that there is a list of banks yet to be…
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On March 29, I woke to the news that the heads of almost every Arab state and Iran were speaking out in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose country…
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Since the first revolts erupted in the region, economists in Executive’s research department have been busy number crunching, running regressions and trying to find correlations between raw economic data and…
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In the first month of 2011 a storm of popular rage swept across the Arab world. Protests from Morocco to Yemen have brought millions out into the streets to demonstrate…
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To sign the Taef accord in 1989, which helped bring to an end the civil war, every Lebanese member of Parliament and warlord was paid between $2 million and $8…
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Lebanon’s end-of-year report card shows it is the perennially underachieving student, full of promise but yet to live up to its full potential. We end 2010 with a sense of…
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Last month the son of good friends of mine was killed, hit by a car as he crossed the street on the way to school – his life cut short…
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The good news for the Beirut property market is that the dangerous bubble everyone said would form has not. The reasons are straightforward: the two-years between the 2006 summer war…
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It is a measure of how far Lebanon has come in recent years that a new roof is being placed on the synagogue in the Beirut Central District. It is…