On that sunny February day in 2005 when they killed Rafik Hariri, Basil Fuleihan and 21 others outside the St. Georges hotel, I was due to have lunch at Le …
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Samsung’s growth in Middle East – CE giant hopes to expand its brand
by Nicholas Noeby Nicholas NoeThis September in Berlin, in his keynote address at IFA 2006, the world’s largest consumer electronics exhibition, Samsung President and CEO Gee Sung Choi reviewed the tremendous success enjoyed by …
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Lebanon, with its limited, varied terrain and lack of cheap labor, will never be an ideal environment for mass-production. However, Lebanon is ideally positioned to “go boutique.” There are already …
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In the aftermath of its 34-day war with Israel, Hizbullah decided to launch its first-ever full-scale PR campaign: the “Divine Victory” blitz. The slogan was emblazoned on hundreds of billboards, …
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In his restaurant in Abou Roumaneh, an upmarket district close to one of the Syrian capital’s few luxury hotels, Mohamed Takki looks on as customers pour in.Business has been good …
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Pierre Achkar The Lebanese Hotel Owners Association Of course the situation is extremely bad for tourism. Tourism and warfare just do not go hand in hand. We were en route …
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After three long years of somber and often depressing news from Iraq – where by mid-June, according to Pentagon sources, the American military death count had reached the landmark total …
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Lebanese banks have increased their capital significantly over the last decade, as consolidated equity moved from less than $500 million in the early 1990s to slightly more than $6 billion …
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Lebanon has been going through ups and downs, cycles of joys and woes, repeated phases of history. It waddles along both victorious and defeated. How do its people feel about …
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Many Arab countries are realizing that the call for political, economic and social reform is getting louder, especially since the spontaneous democratic groundswell that shook the region in 2005. Participants …