The Souk El Tayeb farmers’ market on Beirut’s Armenia Street has an established feel to it. There are many regulars to be seen on both sides of the small stands.…
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Access to sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious food is a basic right, yet in Lebanon, such access can no longer be guaranteed. The three-year old economic crisis, which quickly…
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The latest chapter of Lebanon’s compounded and overlapping disasters has emerged in the shape of a bleak and multifaceted food crisis. As if a hard-hitting dose of COVID-19, the Beirut…
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To his admirers he is intelligent, principled and steadfast. To his adversaries he is uncompromising, avaricious and self-indulgent. All may be partly true of Minister of Energy and Water Gebran…
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For a hugely popular Lebanese-founded company, Woopra has had almost no success in the Middle East. The real-time web analytics company – which provides analysis of customer behavior on websites…
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If you hear anyone cry wolf about demand in the Lebanese real estate market in 2013, rest assured that this is not the time to panic. The market is not…
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Sitting atop shifting sands, the Mosul Dam in western Iraq is precariously vulnerable to cavities that regularly form beneath it. If the holes grow large enough, they can threaten the…
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As violence continued in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and elsewhere in the region last week, Jordan managed to hold boringly quiet elections for the kingdom’s 17th Lower House of Parliament. These…
