Education

As I write this article, eight years have passed since I committed to return to Lebanon as the 16th president of the American University of Beirut (AUB). Over the last…

Lebanon’s human infrastructure is our biggest hope for a bright future. Polishing our strategy and re-aligning priorities is the first step forward for Lebanese American University. Strategy focus for Academic…

With its flying faculty model, ESA Business School (ESA) is an exceptional case in the Lebanese higher education sector. In contrast to many other institutions, resorting to direct fundraising was…

What can illustrate the relationship between the farmer and the banker in this country? To modify an old consultant joke to a Lebanese scenario, let us assume – purely for…

An entrepreneurship ecosystem captures the essence of entrepreneurial energy in a cycle of economic life. For these energies to become manifest and productive, ecosystems need a constant supply of fresh…

Workforce Lebanon is a recent initiative that one can see having been spliced from DNA strands of entrepreneurship, education/upskilling, and job matching. Executive conversed with Nadim Zaazaa, managing partner of…

The shift from traditional to unconventional teaching methods, including online and blended learning, was extremely timely for educational institutions and their teachers as it helped them finally step into the…

Education is the public good that, economically spoken, has the largest implications for development of human capital and wealth. At the same time, the public good of education is rooted…

The convergence of developmental strands – say the convergence of technology, business, medicine, and culture – is a tide that waits for no woman in Lebanon. The simple logic that…

In May 2021, clashes in Palestine took their habitual toll of innocent human lives. After a “ceasefire” agreement was reached with both sides unsurprisingly claiming victory, some establishments responded with…