Yaara and Tarek Kessouf are blissful newlyweds, full of excitement over their young marriage and the home they could afford to buy in the capital last year. They moved into …
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Executive sat with Nicolas Chammas, head of the Beirut Traders Association (BTA), to discuss the performance of the trade sector this year and what can be done to support it …
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"Wine is a way of living; it is your vines, your terroir… You are, first of all a farmer,” says Ramzi Ghosn, co-owner and winemaker at Massaya, one of Lebanon’s …
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It was a common sight this year to see sales assistants lounging on the doorframes of their trendy boutiques in Beirut, sleepily waiting for customers to walk in. Meanwhile, the …
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As a new year approaches, Lebanon’s hospitality and tourism sector is limping along in a dismal socio-economic situation — severely sprained but not broken. According to the latest statistics from …
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Statistically, by almost all indicators available to Executive, activity in the field of real estate development and building construction in Lebanon is in a slump. In the first nine months …
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As the property market entered into a troublesome year, the Real Estate Association of Lebanon (REAL) began 2013 by celebrating its recognition as a syndicate aiming to unite real estate …
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Given Lebanon’s reputation as the liberal party capital of the Middle East, it is no wonder that alcohol consumption in the country increased by 6.3 percent from 2007 to 2012 …
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"I’m much happier in Beirut than in London or Sydney or Melbourne. We belong to our roots,” says Salim Sfeir, chairman of Bank of Beirut (BoB), Lebanon’s seventh largest bank. …
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All seems relatively quiet in the Lebanese banking world, for now. Lebanon’s banks are still growing. They are still making money, too. While their profits are not swelling at the …