The crisis in Ukraine exposed yet another Lebanese catastrophe. As the primary source of grain imports for Lebanon, disruptions to grain imports and pricing put Lebanon in a precarious position of having no more than a few weeks of grain reserves. This is because the political class had done nothing to reestablish a strategic store since the destruction of the grain silos in the August 4 2020 blast.
Rockets & Feathers: Why Lebanon’s Fuel Prices Rise Fast and Fall Slow
During the spring, everyone said the same thing: the Iran War had pushed oil prices up, causing gasoline and diesel prices to rise as well. Oil then came down again, with the global benchmark Brent crude dipping below its pre-war price by July, but Lebanese were at...
