Albert Hourani, the late Lebanese-British historian once wrote: “All states are artificial… they have been formed by specific historical processes, by human acts within a given physical environment over a…
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Consumer Society
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In February of this year Joseph Andrew Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer, flew a single-engine plane into an office building in Texas. To the shock of many in the Middle…
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The last time Executive covered the Lebanon Motor Show, we called it a “regular fixture of the Beirut Exhibition Center.” That was 2004. For the next six years, spates of…
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The term “genuine replica,” a favored parlance of counterfeit luxury watchmakers and their advertisers, seems oxymoronic, if not cynical, at first. After all, touting your watch as a “genuine fake”…
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The Anthony Bonja Fortress watch has a look to match its name. With a thick steel casing held together by six hefty screws and a weighty leather strap, it’s the…
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“May you live in interesting times.” More than ever before, this Chinese curse painfully rings true for companies treading today’s dangerous world, prone to corporate crises and scandals on a…
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French luxury shoe brand Berluti opened the doors to its first store in Lebanon last month. Olga Berluti, creative director and lead designer for Berluti, said Lebanese clients shopping in…
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For millennia, sailors have named their ships after the women of their hearts — mothers, sisters, sweethearts, wives — and cultivated bonds with those vessels so deep they could easily…
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Farid Chehab is the co-founder and current chairman of Leo Burnett in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the firm’s chief coordinating officer for Central and Eastern…
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With Arab and foreign visitors swarming Lebanon this summer, from the malls in Achrafieh, Dbayeh, Dora and Verdun to the clubs and restaurants in Gemmayze and downtown, and the mountain…
