February was an unsettling month in Lebanon and not just on the political front. On February 15, the country experienced a earthquake that registered 5.1 on the Richter scale, …
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Sporting funky glasses, a hipster beard and a ponytail, Muhammad Ali Mansour stands proudly in front of his modest convenience store in urban Beirut. He had been an employee …
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Traffic in Beirut is grinding to a halt. The daily commute for the city’s workers is getting longer and more frustrating. As long ago as 1994 the government set up …
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The acquisition of the former Carlton Hotel seafront property by Jamil Ibrahim Establishments in mid-January gave Lebanon’s real estate sector an optimistic start to the year. According to Karim Ibrahim, …
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After nearly a year and a half of rumors that a Gulf-based bank was planning a buyout of Banque Nationale du Paris Intercontinentale (BNPI), the president of the Federation of …
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One of the greatest complaints by Lebanese living outside Greater Beirut is that they are left out of many development plans. Especially in the IT sector most attention is focused …
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The ongoing political instability in Lebanon has taken an economic toll on the embattled nation, but it seems that foreign companies in the Mediterranean country have not been dissuaded. The …
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“China is taking over the world.” The statement, only a decade ago considered far-fetched, has become reality. In the last few years, Lebanon has grown more aware of China’s potential …
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President Bouteflika’s 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation closed a chapter of Algeria’s tumultuous past and focused instead on solid economic development program and reforms. This has been dovetailed …
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Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport (RHIA) is still reeling from last year’s war between Israel and Hizbullah, with passenger numbers down and some $19 million needed for a second radar …