In recent years, and more dramatically in recent months, global politics has seen a notable shift toward ‘masculinized’ ...

Public transport is part of Lebanon’s mobility heritage, as is evident by our popular culture. In the song entitled “ Ala Hadir el-Bosta,” the late Joseph Sakr sings of his love Alia’s pretty eyes ...

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

Olive trees have their homes around the Mediterranean Sea. Britannica says they are cultivated commercially in two world-spanning climate belts between approximately the 30th and 45th latitudes North ...

Zeina Zeidan Dr. Zeina Zeidan is a governance advisor and board chair with over 20 years of experience in financial strategy, ESG, and institutional reform. She is the founder of TAT Essentials ...

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 ...

In November 2023, four years after the start of Lebanon’s severe financial crisis, Harvard Growth Lab suggested that Lebanon consider adopting full dollarization among other economic and financial ...

What can illustrate the relationship between the farmer and the banker in this country? To modify an old consultant joke to a Lebanese scenario, let us assume – purely for the sake of illustration – ...

Zeina Zeidan Dr. Zeina Zeidan is a governance advisor and board chair with over 20 years of experience in financial strategy, ESG, and institutional reform. She is the founder of TAT Essentials ...

Souhad Abou Zaki Souhad Abou Zaki is a curious economist with diverse experience integrating economics, food security, education, and development. With 8 years of expertise in rural development, she ...

What social and economic science often calls a shock event is something that heavily impacts the moment but transpires into much more consequential long-term changes of the previous status quo. These ...

She has been organizing bi-annual wellness weeks since 2012, but says that Eddésands has found it easier to sell tailor-made packages or individual treatments for a short duration of time, as opposed ...