On December 13th and 14th, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) hosted an academic conference titled “100...
On December 6, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs hosted a talk on water scarcity and...
No political topic loomed as large as the drive to uncover the fate of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri in Saudi Arabia on the Lebanese political scene throughout November. Regardless of the specific conditions that led to this scandalous political affair, that is if he was pressured to resign from...
In the past couple of years, Lebanon has witnessed on-and-off attempts of political reform with the last (major) one being...
The resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday, out of Saudi Arabia and aired exclusively on a Saudi TV,...
Supporters of Bachir Gemayel gathered up in Sassine Square in Achrafieh, Beirut, on October 20, 2017, as they celebrated the final verdict of the assassination of the former President-elect. The Judicial Council, Lebanon’s top court, sentenced Habib Shartouni and Nabil Al-Alam to death, 35 years after the explosion that killed...
Not so long ago, I was sitting at a coffee shop having my cup of Mocha Latte while having a...
Lebanon’s Director of the Internal Security Forces Anti-Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Rights Bureau Maj. Suzan Hajj Hobeiche was fired on...
The Council of Ministers approved on Sunday the use of biometric IDs during elections for a budget of 40 million USD, awarded without open bidding to the French company SAGEM. This amount was part of a larger enacted budget (133 million USD), earmarked for the management of parliamentary elections scheduled...
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