You can’t handle the truth
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our naive and simple minds have proven time and time again to be susceptible to transparent excuses. They shield us from accepting the facts on the ground and allow us to orbit...
View ArticleTurning point
Reading Time: < 1 minute In its 20 years of reporting, rarely has this magazine witnessed a Lebanon that feels as vulnerable as it does today. It seems that the Lebanese citizen has totally...
View ArticleA trap of their own making
Reading Time: 2 minutes It has been a year since Lebanon agreed on a path out of its crises, promising to undertake serious reform efforts in exchange for the $11 billion pledged by the international...
View ArticleTrust in nature
Reading Time: 2 minutes The government’s latest push toward reforms has uncovered just how incompetent our political class truly are. It almost makes you wish they had not even started. Before, the...
View ArticleBest case scenario?
Reading Time: 2 minutes After missing self-imposed deadline after deadline, our cabinet has finally agreed on the terms of the reformist budget, passed to Parliament on May 30 for more bickering. Never...
View ArticleIt is about credibility
Reading Time: 2 minutes The concluding statement of the IMF’s Article IV consultations includes the following sentence: “Rebalancing the economy in the current framework of an exchange rate peg...
View ArticleA plane in the sky
Reading Time: < 1 minute You can no longer live in denial, just clicking on what interests you in this fake voyeur world. Stop looking the other way, reality is now upon us. Swiping left is no...
View ArticleLe monde du plus fort ou du plus fou
Reading Time: 2 minutes French anthropologist Marc Augé coined the phrase “non-lieu” (non-place) in the mid-1990s to describe places where considerations of history and identity were erased—think...
View ArticleTime to rise above
Reading Time: 2 minutes Executive has been shouting over and over again for change in this country, calling the bluffs of successive governments in our more than 20 years of coverage. At times, it...
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No more lies
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s only during crisis that truth comes to light. As everyone scrambles into new positions, reality is revealed. Each time the Lebanese equation changes, players let their...
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