SEPTEMBER 2014

Hope is not a plan

Heads in the sand
No one knows just how bad the shortage really is

Speak up
Lebanon’s business leaders need to get more political

Laying the foundation
Lebanon must empower its Capital Markets Authority

Less blue, more gold
Unlicensed water distributors are profiteering from a gap of unknown size

Hands off!
Youth leaders are looking to move the oil and gas sector forward

A strategy on hold
Delays are hampering efforts to reduce investment risk in Lebanon’s offshore

Calling out corruption
New initiatives offer a fleeting hope of cleaner government

Money magnets
Lebanon’s wealth management business is small, but private banks want to change that

Feeling our presence
Roula Habis on managing wealth in the Middle East

Lebanon's capital markets
The country is taking small steps forward bigger markets

Wealth in Lebanon
For whom, for what?

Don’t ask for too much
Banque Libano-Française aims to compete with quality service, not high returns

The international edge
Players such as Crédit Agricole have an advantage in Beirut

Growing more detailed
Private banking in the GCC is diversifying

Strength in numbers
Hospitality clusters are on the rise

Taking the streets of Beirut
Taxi booking apps Uber and Careem roll out in Lebanon’s capital

Pay what you want
A new Beirut restaurant combines cuisine and psychology

Bringing Damascus to Beirut
More Syrian-themed restaurants are opening their doors in Lebanon

Raising capital, the human kind
Lebanon’s EMBA programs are growing, but no one knows what value they add

Seeing is believing
The most memorable content is communicated visually

No project, but no public
Raouche’s coast will not be developed … yet

Single and ready to…
It is time to stop ‘single shaming’

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A promising start
In his first year in office, Rouhani stares down the fundamentalists