On a hot Saturday in mid-June, hundreds of young people across Beirut took part in a campaign to temporarily occupy key high traffic locations and replace them with ‘guerrilla gardens’. …
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The Lebanese love for football warms my heart. The colors flying from windows, cars and street-corner stands during big tournaments like the Euro 2012 give me an emotional lift. The …
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You are in the car and your mobile rings. It is another annoying text message from a bank offering you a loan at X.X percent. You look up at a …
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In the not so distant past, Lebanon’s southern border with Israel was a byword for instability and periodic violence. It was the frontier upon which the diplomatic community in Beirut …
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Without children, there is no society. Thus any society that seeks perpetuity will support the raising of children and in some form provide toward needs such as nutrition, education and …
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In late May, Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli erupted into deadly violence with the shockwaves eventually spreading south onto the streets of Beirut. By the time the politicians, generals and …
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Winston Churchill once said that watching the Kremlin was like watching two bulldogs fight beneath a carpet — outsiders have little idea what is going on until the bones of …
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Perhaps most of Yemen’s problems, if properly addressed, could be resolved within a short or medium timeframe — that is, except for the issue of tribes. Nothing in the country …
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By hosting a Formula 1 race in 2012, the Bahraini government was angling for attention on two fronts, positive publicity and economic benefit. Instead, they received mainly critical attention driven …
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Syria’s political landscape has dramatically changed in the last fifteen months and so has its business environment. A few weeks before the uprisings began in March 2011, the Syrian government …