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Image showing the Beirut Farms container in an empty parking lot in Furn El Chebbak
Tamara Saade

New vertical farm in Beirut may be the “future of nutrition”

Introducing Beirut Farm, a new vertical and hydroponic farm growing greens inside a container in Furn El Chebbak.
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Zeina Labban

Aging becomes a restless test as Lebanon’s economy collapses

And the government is, once again, nowhere to be found.
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Nina Bazin

Housing in Lebanon: A multifaceted crisis worsened by the collapse

Lebanese authorities have long commodified housing, despite signing charters that establish it as an essential human right.
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عزة الحاج حسن

Lebanon’s proposed capital control law is a crime against depositors

The proposed capital control law legitimizes flagrant banking violations by bankers and their defenders against depositors in Lebanon.
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An aerial shot and 3D render of lines of solar panels
Karem Monzer

Follow the sun: Breaking down Lebanon’s solar revolution

People in Lebanon are shifting to solar power, seeking independence from an unreliable governmental electricity grid.
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Hanin Haidar Ahmad

We ask people in Lebanon about what they can’t give up in this crisis

Eating every day, finding medicine, and having a job have become privileges instead of rights for those living in Lebanon.
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عزة الحاج حسن

Is Lebanon’s food security in real danger?

Russia’s war on Ukraine negatively affects global production and increases the prices of imported wheat to Lebanon.
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عزة الحاج حسن

Lebanon’s new law weakened exclusive distributors, but did not end them

Exclusive dealers have monopolized more than 60 percent of goods consumed in Lebanon, often supported by politicians.
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Marwan Issa

NATO countries up their economic and military intervention in Ukraine

As tensions escalate with Russian forces bearing down on Kyiv, more countries have decided to up their intervention.
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عزة الحاج حسن

Lebanese sectors suffer the repercussions of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Lebanon would be better equipped to handle the repercussions of Russia's war on Ukraine if the local economic situation were less dire.
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An abstract illustration of the rent concept showing dollars flying in the background and two hands exchanging a house key in the foreground.
Abigail Carroll

“What contract?” : Rental laws affect community and displacement in Beirut

When is raising rent in Lebanon legally enforceable and when is it not?
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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Salameh working and sleeping at his office, sources tell Reuters

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh is working and sleeping at his office at a time when security services are seeking him out for a court hearing over alleged misconduct, three sources told Reuters. Judge Ghada Aoun issued an open-ended subpoena earlier this week in a bid to bring Salameh into...
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