“Do I look like someone who has cancer?” That was what my 23-year-old brother said when ‘The Big C’ took a hold of him. He was diagnosed in November 2011 …
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Between rising air pollution, contaminated food, and indoor smoking, cancer in Lebanon is becoming more common and more expensive. While consolidated numbers do not exist, there are some good signposts …
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On the occasion of Mother’s Day last month, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) launched a campaign to encourage Lebanese women to check for cervical cancer. Easily treatable when detected …
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Cancer rates in Lebanon are rising and the illness has, or will, touch the lives of virtually everyone in the country. They are a lucky few that do not have …
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Cancer is everyone’s disease. At some point or another it enters nearly every home society. It can devastate patients and their families, not just emotionally, but financially as well. It …
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As his first project, Jean-Claude Boulos put up a building for the first television station in the Middle East, Tele Liban. In his last, he ran a television station in …
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Public relations — or simply ‘PR’ — in the Middle East reminds one of New York’s Madison Avenue on Friday afternoon: a one-way artery pushing traffic north with no escape …
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Each time the editorial calendar calls for coverage of the advertising industry, the same question pushes itself to my frontal lobe; it is not who, what, where, when, or even …
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Following the global economic crisis, the Arab uprisings of last year have been felt like a body-shot combination in the solar plexus for the advertising industry in the Middle East …
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A starving artist is a good artist. That romantic but ludicrous notion has been retired in the last century, but the view that harsh times bring more creativity in business …