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…
Yasser Akkaoui
Yasser Akkaoui
Yasser Akkaoui is Executive's editor-in-chief.
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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…
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It doesn’t take a massive intellect — just common sense — to realize that the link between security and prosperity is inextricable. In the Middle East, one might have thought…
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Like the sands of Arabia, the movement of money has shifted, and those economies considered too slow (Saudi Arabia), too conservative (Abu Dhabi), too risky (Lebanon) or too small to…
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No one knows how politics manipulates fear more than the Lebanese. Yet at the same time, the small Levantine country, which has witnessed so much tragedy in the past four…
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As 2009 draws to a close, two centers of business can publish two very different end of year reports. Lebanon, for so long the whipping boy of regional fortunes, is…