Five years have passed since the devastating blast at the Beirut Port and many of the areas of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze ...

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The municipal elections of May 2025, in which three out of four geographically determined rounds have been completed by time of this writing, suggest that the country’s mosaic of highly nuanced local ...

Lebanon stands today not only at the edge of economic collapse but also at the center of a profound governance crisis. The financial meltdown that began in 2019 unveiled structural failures in public ...

As global financial markets prioritize transparency, sustainability, and corporate accountability, countries worldwide are integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards into their ...

Sustainable tourism is one important vertical under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, for achieving decent work and economic growth. While the clock is ticking hazardously for ...

Lebanon is at a defining moment—a fragile economy teetering between recovery and collapse. "People are hopeful now, but the problem is, people are poor," says Khalid Zeidan, founder and ...

Transport leaders aspire to transform vital sector The formal economic sector of transportation and logistics in Lebanon presents itself to the observer with two vividly contrasting faces. One face of ...

This article is part of ongoing Executive coverage with members of the Lebanese Private Sector Network on sectoral impacts of and responses to the 70-day September 2024 war on Lebanon. In the wake of ...

The war on Lebanon, while selective and impacting some sectors less than others, has left no sector untouched. Niche businesses in the real economy — those small, specialized enterprises that often ...

Israel’s long-prepared revenge strike against their arch-enemy Hezbollah under a pretext of securing the return of their internally displaced population to the northern holy land, long ago a peaceful ...