MARCH 2013
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Raping the women of Tahrir
Organized mobs attempting to silence Egyptian womens’ voices
Bridgette Auger
Weaving the silk pipeline
Beijing set to be Baghdad's largest oil producer and purchaser
Riad Al-Khouri
Ahmadinejad’s burning bridges
President’s animosity with political elites threatens interesting exit
Gareth Smyth
Libya’s Senussi smiles at injustice abroad
Qadhafi’s former right hand man happy to be falsely tried
Peter Speetjens
Israel openly pulling America’s strings
Hagel saga shows Jewish lobby’s power over US political process
Ahmed Moor
FEATURE
Assir’s economics
Fundamentalist sheikh talks piety, the national debt and Hezbollah’s arms
Joe Dyke and Zak Brophy
A strategy to legalize civil marriage
How to keep the momentum in the battle for civil ceremonies
Rany Kassab and Zein Loutfi and Ramsay Najjar
SPECIAL REPORT: ADVERTISING
Striving for real Middle Eastern journalism
How the Internet is undermining our freedom
Philippe Skaff
Flipping ‘Murphy’s Law’ in Lebanon
From ‘what can go wrong, will’, to ‘if it can be done, it will’
Eli Khoury
ECONOMICS & POLICY
Welcome to the snake pit
The race for hydrocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean changing political alliances
Zak Brophy
Still no to the WTO
Lebanon’s bid to join the World Trade Organization all but finished
Robert Biddle
Making the reward worth the risk
Lebanon will have to appeal to international oil companies for investment
Carole Nakhle
Finding new ways to extract
Rethinking oil exploration in the Middle East
David Branson , Sean Wheeler , Asheesh Sastry and Alain Masuy"
Developing human capital
Boston Consulting Group’s Sven-Olaf Vathje on improving your staff
Thomas Schellen
BANKING & FINANCE
Lebanon’s banking sector still well-fueled
Profits under pressure but a resilient performance nonetheless
Maya Sioufi
How Lebanon could raise $1 billion per year
Tapping into patriotism could make diaspora bonds work
Georges Pierre Sassine
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
COMPANIES & STRATEGIES
CONSUMER SOCIETY
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
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