“Boring banking,” said Freddie Baz, “is why Lebanese banks have been insulated from the crisis.” Baz, the group chief executive and strategy director at Lebanon’s biggest bank, Bank Audi, said …
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Last month, the Lebanese Building Block Equity Fund announced its first investment in a technology firm. The $1 million in funding — which can be increased to $2.4 million — …
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Lebanon’s June 7 parliamentary elections are expected to be a close affair, pitting the March 14 coalition against the opposition parties of Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, Hezbollah and Amal. …
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For hundreds of years, travelers have criss-crossed Lebanon’s mountains and valleys in search of ancient mysteries and hidden treasures, or just to marvel at their majestic splendor. From Alexander Kinglake …
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Nabil Habayeb President and CEO, General Electric Middle East The environmental problems in the Middle East are huge, and as of yet we still don’t have a common approach to …
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After nearly seven years, the tape came off MTV’s mouth last month, or so an advertising billboard told us before the April 7 relaunching of the television station. MTV was …
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Lebanon has an exasperating array of economic issues which will need to be tackled by the new government that will be formed after the June 7th general elections. Many leaders …
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Lebanon has often been used as a battleground for various regional and global disputes. Sometimes those battles are conducted with weapons. Over the last three years, the battle has involved …
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Why is it that we Lebanese fall into the same trap every time our instincts take control? Since 2005 and the outrageous assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, we …
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Appointed chief executive officer of Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) of Lebanon in September 2008, Pik Yee Foong is the only female CEO in the country’s entire banking sector. She is …