JULY 2016
EDITORIAL
Banking on self-reliance
The Lebanese will always adapt and carry on, no matter the circumstances
Yasser Akkaoui
LEADERS
A strategy, please
Lebanon’s tourism industry needs greater investments if it hopes to defy the odds stacked against it
Nabila Rahhal
Wasted opportunities
Lebanon is failing to meet the challenges of its pressing garbage crisis
Executive Editors
ECONOMY & POLICY
Clearing up the mess
After 2015’s protests, what has the government done to fix the waste management crisis?
Matt Nash
No high-tech fix for our millenia-old garbage problem
Trash disposal will remain a cost for centuries to come
Matt Nash
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The rocky road from inventor to businessman
University project goes viral, creating a reluctant entrepreneur
Matt Nash
BANKING & FINANCE
Finding the funding for big tech dreams
Everyone has an opinion on funding options for tech companies
Yasser Akkaoui
LAST WORD
Four years and no longer counting
The Syrian civil war’s refugee crisis has more, measurable and longer impacts
Thomas Schellen