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 …
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Now that work restrictions on Lebanon’s estimated 400,000 Palestinians have been eased, though this is still a small step and should not be seen as an end to the plight …
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When Energy Minister Gebran Bassil announced his blueprint for electricity reform, he started his presentation with the phrase “itafaqna,” or “we agreed.” Whenever our so-called leaders use this, something is …
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It is often said that Lebanon makes no sense. It is the kind of line that we like to throw out when the chaos overflows, but in reality there is …
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Last fall, I was teaching a business ethics course at the American University of Beirut and explaining the ‘double bottom line,’ the concept that in modern business, a healthy bottom …
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Even the piecemeal tax increases contained in the Lebanese Ministry of Finance’s 2010 budget proposal are insulting. The private sector and the expatriate community — the two entities that keep …
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The 2008 global financial crisis was just that – almost everyone took a hit. But looking at the Dubai property figures for the fourth quarter of 2009, it appears that …