Economics & Policy

Lebanon is presented with the most serious challenges it has faced in the past decade. The economy is struggling, the internal security situation is deteriorating and the country’s neighbors pose real threats. In …

The global disaster count was going so well. Throughout the first 10 months of 2012, the financial tally of natural catastrophes for international reinsurers and insurers was a fraction of …

Buffeted by crises at home and abroad, the Lebanese economy stuttered in 2012 and closed the year unsteadily. Many laws currently stuck in the processes of  government could possibly bolster …

It has been a year most car dealerships would not like to see repeated. The economic downturn, inflation, high gas prices and political uncertainty have taken their toll on sales, …

Rolling blackouts have become a symbol of the political crisis affecting the Lebanese government. According to the World Bank, Lebanese citizens incur on average 220 interruptions of electricity per year, …

It was never going to be an easy year for Lebanon. The economy entered 2012 with the International Monetary Fund pegging growth at only 1.5 percent for the previous year, …

Lebanon entered 2012 with the resolute promise to tap “huge wealth” from offshore hydrocarbons. Determined to ride in the new year on a wave of applauding headlines, the Minister of …

Photoblog from the front lines of Syria’s biggest city

Things are changing in northeastern Syria’s Kurdish-majority Hassake province. Gradually, the swoops and curves of Arabic script on storefronts and street signs are being replaced with the Latin characters that …