Yassine Jaber Ghazi Youssef Ghassan Moukheiber Samy Gemayel Farid el-Khazen Nayla Tueni
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Levant
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In the wake of the financial crisis, governments have been considering ways to bolster foreign investment and shore up the financial system. Turkey hit on the idea of an ‘asset…
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Abdullatif Kalafani, an 81- year-old Palestinian exile living in Lebanon, is the owner of house number 15 on al Burj Street, now renamed Liberation street, in Haifa. Kalafani is one…
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Firas Yazbeck and Naomi Arends arrived to the municipality building in Larnaca, Cyprus on a Monday morning. In just a few minutes, the Lebanese-Dutch couple had filled out their marriage…
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Last month Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced economic stimulus measures designed to put the nation back to work and the economy on the path to recovery. Tax cuts,…
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Jordan is to construct a $1 billion pipeline to transport drinking water from the Disi valley in southern Jordan to thirsty Amman in the north. Most experts welcome the project,…
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It is a quirk of history that the Middle East was better interconnected 50 years ago than it is now. Train tracks laid down during the Ottoman era made that…
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Egypt and Syria need gas to meet burgeoning domestic consumption and to increase their hard currency reserves. Jordan and Lebanon need it to fuel their electricity plants. Europe also needs…
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At times it seems that the Turks are fiddling while Rome burns, as Nero is alleged to have done in the year A.D. 64. Turkey’s unemployed are more numerous while…
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Syria has high expectations for its tourism sector, perhaps too high, given a governmental objective that tourism should account for 15 percent of the country’s gross domestic product by 2015.…
