Economics & Policy

Chinese firms have been investing in blue chip companies, snapping up high-end real estate and logistics firms around the world.  Shanghai International bought American meat company Smithfield for $4.7 billion …

Lebanon is quite the micro-dot on the Chinese trade radar. From a global trade perspective, it is a pointless exercise to quantify how much, or rather, how little, the bilateral …

It is an exercise in historic futility to ask if Lebanon was at any time in its past or present unaffected by Syria. From the moment the first cracks in …

In Ramzi Naaman’s first nine months as head coordinator of Lebanon’s Syria response plan, Lebanon’s government collapsed, the number of refugees grew exponentially and violence escalated in many parts of …

Television has come a long way since it was introduced to the masses in the 1930s. Originating with the humble black and white 15-inch screens encased in heavy wooden cabinets …

In the village of Saadnayel in the Bekaa Valley, 25-year-old Mohammed Hoss says refugees now outnumber locals. Around the village, there is no one whose state of mind has been …

Everyone is overwhelmed. United Nations bodies are desperately trying to raise funds, the Lebanese government is seeking to maintain control and local and international charities are providing care to the …

“If I want to go to prison I will go back to Bashar al-Assad. He is pretty good at it,” Abou Ibrahim jokes when asked about whether he would move …

There is a new family running Khoury Home. Since 2011, Lebanon’s largest household appliance and electronic retailer has been suffering financially in the face of rapidly changing economic conditions. As of …