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Lebanon’s financial meltdown
The Lebanese pound has depreciated about 90% in the past 18 months, driving annual food inflation to 400%, erasing salaries and savings, and pushing more than half the...
Lebanon Sinking into One of the Most Severe Global Crises Episodes
Lebanon is enduring a severe and prolonged economic depression. According to the latest World Bank Lebanon Economic Monitor (LEM) released today, the economic and...
Lebanon’s political deadlock: Multi-Layered Challenges to Government Formation
As the pandemic continues to constrain economic activity across the World, it has a multiplier effect on the free-fall of the Lebanese economy. In...
Lebanese-Chinese Partnership in the Midst of the Lebanese Economic Decline
Unfortunately, it seems that the Lebanese economic scenario is similar to the Venezuelan scenario. I am not optimistic. There is no glimmer of hope...
Lebanon and Syria: A Complicated Relationship between Energy and Geopolitics
Syria continues to offer the ground where Russia and the United States compete over control of oil and gas fields and the transportation routes...
The Great Game in the Mediterranean
As we have repeatedly stressed, the discovery of large gas fields off the coast of Israel, Cyprus, Egypt and Lebanon, has meant that the...
Reigniting Chaos in Syria
Syria has been the nexus of brutality and terror for almost a decade now; with more than 6 million natives who have already fled...
Maritime Border Dispute: The South Lebanon Crisis
The Middle Eastern region has been riddled with crisis and disputes for centuries yet only a few seem to make their way out of...
Reforming Lebanon’s Port Sector to Build Back a Better Port of Beirut
Reforming Lebanon’s port sector is a prerequisite for building back a better Port of Beirut and revitalizing the Lebanese economy, according to a new...
Lebanon: UN-backed tribunal sentences Hezbollah militant in Hariri assassination
The UN chief on Friday took note of five concurrent life sentences handed down to a Hezbollah militant, convicted in the assassination of former...