Human Rights Watch has released a campaign advocating for a major switch up in Lebanon’s handling of their waste. There...
Community Voices
The American University of Beirut took part in the ninth annual Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference held in Shenzhen, China...
Whenever a trailer comes out and I hear people’s responses, I’m usually the guy that breathes words of caution: that you shouldn’t judge a 90-minute film by its trailer. Mostly I try to avoid them all together, preferring to enter a film knowing nothing of what’s to proceed, running only...
As state-owned investment vehicles, sovereign wealth funds play an essential role in a country’s political, economic, and financial life, chiefly...
With a combination of spending streamlining and revenue raising measures, Lebanon can halt the slippage in fiscal finances, and revert into a more solid and sustainable fiscal position.
To many nations, the 28th of December marked nothing more than a year approaching its end. For Iran, it marked the day when streets became flooded with angry protesters demanding justice, freedom, and more importantly, answers. It was the day that Iranians rose up to display their dissatisfaction with the...
The current protests in Iran could be attributed to joblessness and unfulfilled economic expectations, but not necessarily to high poverty.
The risks of collapse for Lebanon's national currency evaluated in 7 key points by one of Lebanon top macro economists.
Civil society in Lebanon has taken different forms and passed through various phases. It includes diverse political activist movements and NGOs that hope to instigate change via lobbying, protesting, and promoting policies to instigate change from within the system itself. Some examples of prominent groups that have gained fluctuant socio-political...
In 2015/16, a shocking 31% of men and 53% of women aged 18-29 were unemployed, compared to 20% and 19% in 1997. More importantly, the pain of this worsening situation is increasingly felt by older age groups. Entire families are affected when their young men and women are unable to find employment, housing, and form a family.
Women and men gathered in front of the National Museum in Beirut on December 23, 2017, to light candles in...
From the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, to Generation Z, society has been obsessed with grouping people based on their age groups; but is it really possible to generalize a whole generation under one category? Do all people belong under one list of criteria? Well, different studies related...