The slump seems to be history. While its problems are not forgotten, the housing market, whose crisis pitched the United States economy for years after 2008, is this year flipping …
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Beirut is a growing city. It extends well beyond its official municipal borders, and there is pressure for it to spread even farther. The need to accommodate young families and …
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Shopping centers and commercial complexes are on the agendas of real estate investors across the Middle East. The phenomenal contribution of malls to tourism and retail growth in metropolises such …
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A carefully chosen watch can be an investment and a pleasure. Here are Executive's top 10 men's watches for 2013: 10 Girard Perregaux 1966 Oozing “Mad Men” martini style! …
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When Ramzi Traboulsi got his first pack of basketball cards at the age of 10, he knew he was hooked. It started a collection of a lifetime, and soon became …
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Elias Chabtini is a remarkably confident man. The chief executive officer of Shawarmanji, the increasingly ubiquitous shawarma chain which began in Beirut in November 2012, has an incredibly aggressive strategy …
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The vistas around Beirut’s northern gates are changing. For years, the expanse of seaside development in the Dbayeh township was an empty promise of a coming suburbia. Although much of …
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Maarad Street hasn’t looked this vacant since 2000. Here, in restored downtown Beirut, is where luxury retail, dining and living should meet. At lunch time, the roads should be filled …
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Tourists, hipsters, everybody is welcome. Party like it’s 1945.” That’s the slogan of the underground political group Hipster Antifa Neukölln, founded last summer in Berlin in reaction to increasing resentment …
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With school out for the summer, parents return to the task of planning their childrens’ daily activities. For those that did not schedule a babysitter or summer camp, KidzMondo, a …