This is an adapted version of Keynote remarks delivered by Paul Salem on September 24 at the opening of a conference entitled ...

IT IS WIDELY KNOWN THAT CIGARETTE SMOKING IS HARMFUL, YET THERE ARE OVER ONE BILLION SMOKERS IN THE WORLD TODAY – A FIGURE ...

On August 4, 2020, Beirut was torn apart. In the historic neighborhoods of Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, life was not just ...

The Lebanese Private Sector Network (LPSN) is a coalition of business leaders, professionals, and organizations committed to safeguard Lebanon’s formal economy and promote sustainable growth. It ...

Since its first edition emerged on the newsstands in 1999, Executive Magazine has been dedicated to providing its readers with the most up-to-date local and regional business news. Executive is a ...

Lebanon’s End-of-Service Indemnity (EOSI) system—long presented as a pillar of worker protection—has become one of the most pressing and contentious legacies of the country’s economic collapse.

As students across the world got ready for their first day back at school last fall, they could not have known that they would be spending almost all of the last trimester at home, communicating ...

Though Lebanon has a high international capacity coming in through underwater fiber optic cables — to the likes of several hundreds of megabits per second (Mbit/s) — internet speeds at the actual ...

With Lebanon going through hyperinflation, some economists have deemed the establishment of a currency board (CB) necessary to help curb inflation. To better assess the possible establishment of a CB, ...

While everyone in Lebanon — from taxi drivers to elected officials — “knows” the country’s largest waste manager is as dirty as the trash it collects, when pressed for proof, they have little to offer ...

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

My grandfather died in 2016 at the age of 103. He survived two world wars, the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1916 – 1918), and the Lebanese Civil War. A few years before he died, I was with him as he ...