Lebanon’s tourism advertising campaign presents the country as a paradise of pristine mountain landscapes, beautiful shorelines and night time cavorting. What the ads don’t show are the effects of the …
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Faced with pressure to increase network capacity and performance while saving money, information technology managers have often been quite content to simply add more hardware as required. However, this results …
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On the corner of Beirut’s Sodeco crossing stands one of the city’s most emblematic buildings, one that epitomizes both the city’s history and the ravages of the Lebanese Civil War. …
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The first week of July saw an unprecedented number of wild fires rage across the country: 185 in three days. The Lebanese authorities struggled to contain the unexpected fires; the …
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The rehabilitation of downtown Beirut’s Magen Avraham synagogue will begin this summer, according to sources in the Jewish community. Once the largest synagogue in the Middle East, the Lebanese Civil …
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The festival season is in full swing. American rapper Snoop Dogg is scheduled to play Beirut in August. Visits by Michael Bolton and Paris Hilton, despite one’s personal feelings for …
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With property prices falling, investors shying away, and lending scarcer than ever, real estate companies and developers are fighting to survive. Deyaar, one of the biggest real estate companies in …
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Markus Giebel is the chief executive officer at Deyaar Development PJSC, one of the region’s biggest real estate companies. Executive Magazine had the pleasure of sitting with Giebel as Deyaar …
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At a Washington Institute for Near East Policy conference in October 2007, Walid Jumblatt was asked by Dennis Ross, now Barack Obama’s point man on Iran, what Washington could do …
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March 14 can claim a major — and unexpected — victory at the polls, but they’ll have to pay close attention to Lebanon’s real balance of power if they want …