It is hardly news at this stage that climate change presents profound challenges to the environment as well as to societies and economies around the world. However, there has been …
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December was a month of oscillating emotions for the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, and for all those who followed the events of the fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) on climate …
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As world leaders assemble in Copenhagen to tackle the gradually encroaching threat of climate change, Lebanon itself stands at the crossroads of two very different futures. In one, appropriate and …
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The global picture This month the world will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall — on November 9, 1989 — and the end of the Cold …
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Banking the unbanked has proved to be an uphill battle for the Middle East and North African (MENA) region with only 15 to 20 percent of eligible clients having at …
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With the United Nations reporting that almost a third of the Lebanese population is living in poverty, and many more are classified as low-income workers, one thing is certain: Lebanon …
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The great nuclear rat race The nuclear energy option largely disappeared from the public eye following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, yet today it is firmly back on the negotiating table. …
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There was a time when a computer was the size of an entire room and the only people who knew how to use it were the technology buffs at universities. …
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Sami al-Basheer al-Morshid is the current director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations agency that works with governments and the private sector …
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The long hours Lebanon’s Internet users spend sitting in front of their computers waiting for content to download is not the fault of some computer conspiracy. The decrepit state of …