Business

  When Beirut’s wealth managers talk about the financial crisis, their language is decidedly emotional. They speak of the “support” they gave their clients as they watched their portfolios crumble. …

  Four years from now, Beirut will have a new community adjacent to Saifi Village. District//S, a 50,000 square meter residential and retail development, will occupy a 13,200 square meter …

Though many of Beirut’s 130 downtown office buildings are in need of tenants, its Grade A office sector is suffering the opposite problem. Most of the Beirut Central District’s (BCD) …

From the primitive sounds and onomatopoeias of our prehistoric ancestors to the profusion of messages conveyed by media channels, online networks and satellite televisions, language has always been, and remains, …

A journalist from Executive magazine and 200 others from around the globe were flown to San Francisco last month on a junket that included airfare, two nights at the Hilton …

The New York-based International Peace Institute’s recently published “Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections” is a scholarly work of valuable insight for the Middle East. Edited by Neclâ Tschirgi, …

A quick glance at Lebanon’s smog-choked roads reveals that hybrid cars and green technology are yet to be embraced by the country’s drivers. The vehicles are still a bit of …

More than three years after the start of the financial crisis and two years after the default of Lehman Brothers, the world economy is still struggling to climb back from …

Buildings go up and banks earn profits; it’s a simple fact of life in any reasonably functioning economy. Both the banking and the real estate industries would most probably prefer …