What defines a war in the modern age is in principle simple – exchange of violence in a state of declared conflict – and yet ...

The Lebanese government is no longer presiding over a financial collapse; it is attempting to codify a permanent state of ...

Authors’ disclaimer: Executive issued the invitation for this expert contribution on the publicness of coastal spaces one month before the expansion of the Israeli war on Lebanon in September 2024. We ...

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 ...

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 ...

Problems of overtourism this year have shaken several high-profile destinations around the Mediterranean basin – long the world’s most tourism-intense area. Protests against urban overcrowding with ...

A government’s highest duty is the dignified sustenance of its polity. Governments empowered by their people are accountable to them, and the Lebanese state has a profound reckoning ahead. The ...

Five years have passed since the devastating blast at the Beirut Port and many of the areas of Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze appear to have been restored, as evidenced by summer scenes of residents, expats ...

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 ...

Walking the warrens of old Beirut neighborhoods, driving along rural roads where one illogical turn follows the other, or traipsing past private and public white elephant real estate projects that ...

Once upon a time, in a tiny, almost mythical land tugged away from the rest of the world on the far eastern shore of the Middle Ocean, people were gifted a narrative of a resilient society where they ...

He has been with PMI for 23 years, and now, Ali N. Karaman is Philip Morris’s newly appointed Managing Director for Egypt & Levant. In an exclusive interview with Executive, Karaman takes us through ...