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Crushed Ballot: Ending the Suppression of Lebanon’s Municipalities
Municipalities’ Can Reshape Development And Service Provision In Lebanon, If Freed To Represent Their Communities.
Public Disservice: Reforming Lebanon’s Regressive State Institutions
How politicians corrupted the civil service, and why now is the time for change.
Undermining Democracy: Lebanon’s Cabinet Violates Constitution To Protect Banking Elite
Lebanon’s cabinet violates constitution to protect banking elite.
Sign of the Times: The information that Tripolitans need to survive
Since the beginning of Lebanon’s financial collapse in 2019, access to information has become more critical than ever.
Red Tape: Syrian and Palestinian Doctors Blocked from Easing Lebanon’s Health Crisis
Displaced doctors could provide relief amid health worker shortages
‘They’ Have Names
The Lebanese have known since at least the 1960s that the banks run the country, but we have known this in the abstract. We have used the vague...
Cross Contamination: The Banking Interests Plaguing Public Office in Lebanon
Lebanon’s banks played a central role in driving the country into the financial catastrophe it has endured since 2019, and yet to date they have...
Spoiled Ballot: Elections Uncertain as Municipalities’ Mandates Set to End
Why Lebanon needs to hold local polls in May.
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
Why illegal cross-border commerce is so hard to stop.
Analysis
Sign of the Times: The information that Tripolitans need to survive
Since the beginning of Lebanon’s financial collapse in 2019, access to information has become more critical than ever.
Spoiled Ballot: Elections Uncertain as Municipalities’ Mandates Set to End
Why Lebanon needs to hold local polls in May.
New EDL Tariffs: A Step Towards the Light or a Shot in the Dark?
Lebanon’s residents likely to keep paying for the chronic mismanagement of EDL.
Uphill Battle: Lebanon’s Cholera Fight Not Over
Cholera likely to stay without serious reforms to Lebanese water sector
In-Depth
Crushed Ballot: Ending the Suppression of Lebanon’s Municipalities
Municipalities’ Can Reshape Development And Service Provision In Lebanon, If Freed To Represent Their Communities.
Public Disservice: Reforming Lebanon’s Regressive State Institutions
How politicians corrupted the civil service, and why now is the time for change.
Red Tape: Syrian and Palestinian Doctors Blocked from Easing Lebanon’s Health Crisis
Displaced doctors could provide relief amid health worker shortages
Cross Contamination: The Banking Interests Plaguing Public Office in Lebanon
Lebanon’s banks played a central role in driving the country into the financial catastrophe it has endured since 2019, and yet to date they have avoided legal sanction, regulatory reform, and efforts to have them bear their fair share of the financial burden. Where,...
Commentary
Undermining Democracy: Lebanon’s Cabinet Violates Constitution To Protect Banking Elite
Lebanon’s cabinet violates constitution to protect banking elite.
‘They’ Have Names
The Lebanese have known since at least the 1960s that the banks run the country, but we have known this in the abstract. We have used the vague pronoun hineh, ‘them’, to describe these de factor rulers. But Lebanon is not ‘theirs’ and ‘they’ have a name, a face, bank...
Broken Bread: Lebanon’s Half-Baked Wheat Subsidy
Recent $150 million World Bank loan another step into the debt abyss without long-term food security strategy.
Trick Not Treat: Lebanon’s banking secrecy law is more appearance than substance
Lebanon amends banking secrecy law to appease the IMF but leaves loopholes to protect politico-banking elite.
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Crushed Ballot: Ending the Suppression of Lebanon’s Municipalities
Municipalities' Can Reshape Development And Service Provision In Lebanon, If Freed To Represent Their Communities.
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
Why illegal cross-border commerce is so hard to stop.
Washed Away: Don’t (Just) Blame the Rain
Decades of poor urban planning and waste mismanagement catalysts for flash flooding in Lebanon.
Rock Bottom: The Tax Reforms Lebanon Has to Have
For most people there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. In Lebanon the wealthy really only need to worry about the former. The state’s exceptionally weak tax and revenue structures mean the tax burden largely falls upon middle and lower classes –...
Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s Electrciticty Sector is Still Broken
Our infographic simplifies the mess by framing the crisis around three crucial problems–infrastructure, politics, and the law–and the consequences that each of these generates. Our hope is that by understanding Lebanon’s messy electricity problems, we can collectively...
Comic Book Court: Lebanon’s Supreme Council is a well-practiced exercise in futility
Legal loopholes and self-interested gatekeepers will likely prevent justice from running its course
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Crushed Ballot: Ending the Suppression of Lebanon’s Municipalities
Municipalities’ Can Reshape Development And Service Provision In Lebanon, If Freed To Represent Their Communities.
Public Disservice: Reforming Lebanon’s Regressive State Institutions
How politicians corrupted the civil service, and why now is the time for change.
Undermining Democracy: Lebanon’s Cabinet Violates Constitution To Protect Banking Elite
Lebanon’s cabinet violates constitution to protect banking elite.
Sign of the Times: The information that Tripolitans need to survive
Since the beginning of Lebanon’s financial collapse in 2019, access to information has become more critical than ever.
Red Tape: Syrian and Palestinian Doctors Blocked from Easing Lebanon’s Health Crisis
Displaced doctors could provide relief amid health worker shortages