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18 Editor’s Note: This article was written before the outbreak of the current conflict in Lebanon and does not include considerations relevant to conflict’s impact on exchange rates and monetary policies. Lebanon has long lived under the pleasant illusion of financial stability, anchored by a fixed exchange rate regime that was maintained for more than two decades. It was widely believed that such a monetary system constitutes the backbone of currency and financial stability.

13 The Ministry of Culture (MoC) has launched a new strategy for Lebanon’s creative and cultural industries (CCI). Based on inhouse research and stakeholder interaction, the surprisingly extensive document is as economic as it is cultural. As it stands, it seems the strategy is intended to diagnose and invigorate a struggling sector, but also to signal a more proactive, collaborative, facilitating, and ultimately powerful role for the ministry itself.

4.4K Step into almost any café or shared workspace in Beirut and a particular scene repeats itself: young professionals working for economies they may never see. Screens glow with design drafts, code repositories, and contract negotiations with clients in Berlin, Dubai, Toronto—anywhere but here. They are not chasing slogans about resilience; they are trying to stay one invoice ahead of a currency that erases value overnight.

Anyone with any knowledge of Lebanon knows that the country is perpetually described as teetering on a cliff’s edge, frequently stuck in political stalemate, and with infrastructure that leaves much …

1,4K La conférence d’investissement Beirut One, conçue comme une plateforme destinée à reconstruire la confiance et attirer les capitaux, s’est achevée non pas sur une note d’optimisme, mais sur un acte de trahison institutionnelle profonde.

27 The Beirut One investment conference, intended as a platform to rebuild confidence and attract capital, culminated not in optimism, but in an act of profound institutional betrayal. Following the final panel, which featured interventions from Minister of Economy Amer Bisat, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Charles Arbid, president of Lebanon’s Economic and Social Council, the carefully curated narrative of reform dissolved into harsh reality.

9.7K A government’s highest duty is the dignified sustenance of its polity. Governments empowered by their people are accountable to them, and the Lebanese state has a profound reckoning ahead. The reformist government—elected under the banner of rescuing a country gutted by external aggression and catastrophic internal mismanagement—has yet to take the first essential step toward restoration: acknowledging the scale of its responsibility.

18 When I launched Becoming Social in the summer of 2024 in Tripoli, the economic hub of North Lebanon, I knew the odds weren’t in my favor. Tripoli wasn’t exactly known for being a marketing hub — and definitely not one led by a woman. But I also knew that change had to start somewhere, and I wanted to be part of that shift. A year later, what began as a leap of faith has turned into a growing agency that’s helping redefine what modern marketing can look like in northern Lebanon.

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16 In a world of misinformation, separating fact from fiction can be challenging at best. Information overload is everywhere, causing confusion and doubt in many areas of life. One such area is smoke-free technology. Giving up nicotine and tobacco altogether is the best choice a smoker can make, but many don’t. Where smoking was once the only option, smoke-free alternatives now exist to give smokers who don’t quit, a better choice too.