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"Since February 11, Tahrir has been taken to the factories,” says workers’ rights activist and blogger Hossam al-Hamalawy. “The barometer for progress has been [thought of as] how many people …

Nationwide protests, now entering their fourth month, are edging Syria closer to economic meltdown. The government in Damascus has for the most part offered rosy official assessments and downplayed current …

A group of middle-aged men lie sprawled on the sidewalk outside a towering building in Egypt’s Nasr City, shading their faces with newspapers. For 15 days these oil and gas …

Dec28: The American oil company Noble Energy signed a letter of intent to provideIsrael with natural gas from the Tamar field, discovered in January 2009 and located some 90 kilometers …

With the global financial downturn impacting on all markets, everyday business challenges have become compounded by reduced customer spending power, budget constraints and more cautious investor confidence. Companies may be …

These days, while driving north of Beirut on the highway towards Jounieh and Byblos, one encounters a big, blue structure on the side of the road, on the exact spot …

It took Israel’s military thinkers about two weeks to declare the systematic destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure – along with Hizbullah’s launching of hundreds of rockets into Israel – a war. …

In our July issue, Executive devoted a special section to the tourism sector in Lebanon. Like the rest of the country, we eagerly anticipated a record season in 2006: the …

Back in January in Beirut, Sadreddine Sadr, the son of Imam Musa Sadr, told me Lebanon could never make peace with itself while “all sects, including my own, look to …

There is no doubt that the recent violence between Israel and Lebanon has dented the Lebanese economy to the tune of roughly $4 billion and counting. And even though it …