2007

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let’s do it, let’s … buy a home!” So you’ve decided to do the grown-up thing and buy a …

The 47 year-old junior senator from Illinois emerged as a powerful figure after he delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention while he was still a state legislator. …

The food franchising industry is doing well in the Middle East. Buying a tried-and-proven formula for a hospitality venture has allowed both small entrepreneurs and powerful investors to roll out …

It’s Saturday night at White, the rooftop bar on the edge of the beleaguered Beirut Central District. The affluent 30-something crowd, many of whom live and work in the GCC, …

Slump? What slump? If you listen to some of the pundits, one would be forgiven for thinking that the Beirut real-estate sector had forgotten the country is on the edge …

The secrecy in which Solidere has enshrouded its second lifeis lifting and the facts are beyond what the company had leton since last November when it first acquired shareholderapproval to …

Lebanese insurance companies these days marvel that theyhave fared better than feared in the past 18 months, butknow that nearly a year of economic paralysis has not passedthem by. The …

Since last year’s deadly July War, followed in December bythe opposition’s permanent protest movement, the recentsechaurity problems and the fighting in Nahr al-Bared,Lebanon has been the victim of a “series …

Dubai’s history has long been associated with the sea. Todaymore than ever, the city rekindles with its marine past.Driven by sustained regional economic growth and oilabundance, prestigious waterside developments such …

I hadn’t been to Gaza since January. The kidnapping of theBBC’s Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston on March 12 had madethe strip a no-go zone, and during the vicious rounds offactional …