Like the wise farmer who knows disaster can and does strike, no matter how carefully he cultivates his harvest, policy makers at the Kremlin must be shaking their heads at…
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Mohamad Ajami’s 65 beehives overlook the pastoral idyll of the Litani River Valley, with Jebel El Sheikh looming in the distance and Beaufort Castle laying to the right. Last year…
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Lebanon’s outspoken Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud tells it like it is and how it should be in the country’s tourism industry as he sits down with Executive for this exclusive…
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From gas deals with Algeria to investment in Libyan oil exploration, Europe is increasingly looking across the Mediterranean to the Maghreb to fulfill its energy needs. In addition to holding…
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Gebran Bassil is the minister of energy and water and the former minister of telecoms. In June, the cabinet unanimously approved Bassil’s five-year plan to reform the energy sector. Executive…
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Promoting one’s own vested interests has always been the mantra of Lebanese policy makers, and we’ve become accustomed to seeing them endlessly tie up progress in legislative knots to protect…
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Today the Lebanese pay for electricity four times: when the bill collector comes knocking, when the government has to use money collected from the citizens or borrowed in their name…
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Blame it on the sushi. The rising popularity of the Japanese delicacy has brought the northern bluefin tuna to the brink of extinction, while at the same time profoundly altering…
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“I see more tourists every year,” smiles tourist guide Abdul Razzak Homsi when asked about the prospects of his business. “Three years ago, museums in Damascus were empty. Now Europeans…
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The traditional Yemeni dagger, or jambiya, is worn by many men in Yemen as a symbol of their manhood and authority. But with its rhino horn, buffalo horn or ivory…
