The human being by conventional wisdom and scientific study is to a very large part a creature of habit. Discovering and applying the principles that allow individuals and businesses to change ...

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 ...

In just a few years, the area of Mar Mikhael has gone from being a small industrial neighborhood to Beirut’s nightlife destination par excellence. Today, Vogue magazine’s recommendations for “Four ...

Developmental disruptions are piling up on the liabilities side of the world’s sustainability balance sheet in 2025. For the tiny, battered country of Lebanon, each of this year’s new shocks – be it a ...

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 ...

Thomas Schellen is Executive's editor-at-large. He has been reporting on Middle Eastern business and economy for over 20 years. Send mail ...

Ahmad Barclay Ahmad is an architect, visual communicator and product designer. He is a partner with Visualizing Impact, and is actively engaged in various projects involving data and visual ...

Samar Monzer has connected her refrigerator and illuminated her house. As she stands in the kitchen, baking a cake for her three children, she savors the renewed sense of comfort in her Aley residence ...

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.… ...

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 ...

OLX started in Lebanon in 2015 and witnessed tremendous adoption from the Lebanese population at a very quick pace. “During the early days when we first launched, OLX Lebanon was always mentioned ...