As the last snow melts on Lebanon's mountain tops and with the ski season firmly over, ice racing is probably not the kind of driving experience you are gearing up …
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The problem with opening a restaurant that pleases everyone’s palate and becomes one of the city’s institutions is that if you try to do it again, you have set the …
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The new book by Lebanese communications consultant and former ad-man Ramsay Najjar, “Views, Reviews, and Previews”, in intellectual association with Executive, is a tour de force of theories, recommendations and …
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The Lebanese love of loud engines and sleek curves has lured to its shores a classic automotive racing icon, Lotus. Lebanon is to be the brand’s launchpad into the flush …
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On Easter Monday, the Hippodrome hosts a new horse race, one a little different from all the others. Just six or seven horses will run that day, and to the …
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The message from Baselworld 2012, the watch and jewelry industry’s annual conference in the Swiss town of Basel, was that business is back on track after a few wobbly years. …
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How do you tell the story of modern Iraq? For novelist, film producer and war correspondent Ali Bader, it’s not enough to recount the terrible cycles of violence that have …
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Dipping my head to walk onto an Air France flight at Beirut’s Rafiq Hariri International Airport last month, I suddenly found myself sitting next to some familiar faces. To one …
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It is a truth universally acknowledged in the luxury goods market since the 2009 recession; people have become blasé about bling, and those who do spend on big name brands …
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Life is tough for Lebanese designers. Despite unreliable spending and tourist numbers in a contracting economy, retail rents per square meter per year range from $400-$2,000 in malls, and are …