BEIRUT: Sleepy is not a word that comes to mind when describing Beirut’s horn-pounding urban fabric. But in the late afternoon, a rare sense of calm...
Dear Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Culture Minister Gaby Layoun, Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud, President Michel Sleiman, and Nabil Kettaneh, the head of the...
BEIRUT: From his nondescript office in a shopping center outside Beirut, Samir (not his real name) sits in an Aeron chair and monitors multiple screens...
BEIRUT: Lebanese Internet users are burning with anticipation as the government has finally agreed to release desperately needed bandwidth from a state-of-the...
BEIRUT: Lebanese firm LFZ Holding denied reports Tuesday that its $400 million takeover of Medgulf, Lebanon’s largest insurance company, stemmed from a...
BEIRUT: For Rudy Karam, looking for an apartment in Beirut was a depressing exercise. The best deal the 32-year-old sales representative found was a decrepit...
First person by Habib Battah According to a recent report by Mercer, a US consulting firm, Beirut is one of the least hospitable places on Earth when...
NEW YORK: Arab-Americans are expected to vote in large numbers this November, despite concerns over voter intimidation and weak outreach from the presidential...
Forgetting all the hype about Lebanon's supposed recent march toward democracy becomes painfully easy when government officials do their best to discourage...
Business in person BEIRUT: Taking on the biggest project in the history of Lebanon was a good enough reason for easy-going Tony Abi Rached to leave behind a...
BEIRUT: Traffic activity at the Port of Beirut has fallen off slightly in the first quarter of 2005, but port authorities say a more substantial decrease...
BEIRUT: Plans to build a billion dollar ski resort on Lebanon's Sannine mountain range have not been affected by the unraveling of Lebanon's delicate...
BEIRUT: U.A.E. tycoon Khalaf al-Habtoor vowed to sustain over $400 million worth of tourism-related investments in Lebanon on Friday, and pledged to offer a...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is not known for skyscrapers, indoor ski slopes, or artificial islands - the typical kinds of gargantuan tourism projects that are...
BEIRUT: National carrier Middle East Airlines is slashing its fares to Lebanon as local businesses struggle to cope with a severe slowdown in the country's...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's largest corporation, Solidere, more than tripled its profits in 2004, according to financial results issued Sunday. The publicly traded real...
BEIRUT: Business owners struggled to come to terms with what they estimated to be millions of dollars in financial losses stemming from Saturday evening's...
BUSINESS IN PERSON BEIRUT: Visa's man for the Levant region admits that many of his colleagues in the financial industry were taken aback to find he was once...
BEIRUT: Visa's man for the Levant region admits that many of his colleagues in the financial industry were taken aback to find he was once a professional...
BEIRUT: In response to a staggering dip in sales, shop owners in Beirut's high streets are now offering unprecedented discounts to lure customers back to the...
BEIRUT: Microsoft has temporarily relocated its regional offices in Lebanon in a bid to minimize disruptions caused by the wave of protests that have swept...
BEIRUT: As Lebanon approaches the end of a 40-day mourning period for slain economic and political heavy weight Rafik Hariri, some of the commercial areas hit...
BEIRUT: Before political turmoil sent tremors through the local business community, Heineken's chipper point man in Lebanon had one major challenge in mind....