In recent years, and more dramatically in recent months, global politics has seen a notable shift toward ‘masculinized’ ...

Often times, when someone is diagnosed with a chronic illness, whether it is a severe or mild one, the first thought that comes to mind is, “Only if I’ve acted earlier and done medical checkups or ...

As part of our ongoing series to celebrate the Lebanese diaspora around the world, Executive recently travelled to New York to meet the expats that make the US tick. Over the course of a week we shall ...

Souhad Abou Zaki Souhad Abou Zaki is a curious economist with diverse experience integrating economics, food security, education, and development. With 8 years of expertise in rural development, she ...

Public transport is part of Lebanon’s mobility heritage, as is evident by our popular culture. In the song entitled “ Ala Hadir el-Bosta,” the late Joseph Sakr sings of his love Alia’s pretty eyes ...

Social emergencies, safety nets, and refugee issues have taken center stage in Lebanese public debates since the country’s rapid descent into economic misery more than four years ago. Along with ...

Israel’s long-prepared revenge strike against their arch-enemy Hezbollah under a pretext of securing the return of their internally displaced population to the northern holy land, long ago a peaceful ...

Sustainable tourism is one important vertical under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, for achieving decent work and economic growth. While the clock is ticking hazardously for ...

Olive trees have their homes around the Mediterranean Sea. Britannica says they are cultivated commercially in two world-spanning climate belts between approximately the 30th and 45th latitudes North ...

What social and economic science often calls a shock event is something that heavily impacts the moment but transpires into much more consequential long-term changes of the previous status quo. These ...

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

A Lebanese pupil looks out of the window as he sits in his empty classroom after coming to collect the books he left before the COVID-19 lockdown, at Our Lady of Lourdes school in the Lebanese city of ...