The End of Pretend: Lebanon Will Reconstruct When It Changes Its Taxation System
With foreign aid drying up and the old debt-fueled model exhausted, rebuilding the country depends on whether Lebanon’s elites pay their fair share
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Glass Decades: The Sunset of Gulf Exceptionalism
The Iran war has forced a reckoning for the GCC’s 35-year project to build security and splendor.
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Losing Our Minds: The Making of Lebanon’s Mental Health Catastrophe
How cascading crises and state negligence are fraying the national psyche.
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Doctor’s Orders: Keep Smoking to Fund the State
How Lebanon’s treasury got hooked on tobacco profits at the public’s expense.
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The Illusion of Balance: Lebanon’s 2026 Budget is Nothing More than Deadline Theatre
The budget is a constitutional ritual dressed up as fiscal discipline — with the real balance sheet left off the books.
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Stacked Against Her: Lebanese Women’s Uphill Struggle for Economic Equity
The systemic and deliberate way women are robbed of financial autonomy
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Lebanon’s Housing Crisis: From Emergency Response to Sustainable Solutions
How homes for the displaced can lay the foundation for a more affordable, equitable, and resilient housing system.
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The Forever Victims: How Racist Israeli Hooligans Became Innocent Lambs
Far-right in both Israel and the Netherlands leverage Amsterdam football violence.
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Briefing: Reform of the Lebanese Armed Forces
CONTEXT The United States is the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) largest international donor, contributing over US$3 billion in financial aid, as well as most of the army’s weaponry, since 2006. For Washington, such historic support for the LAF is strategically aimed at countering the influence of Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and militia backed by […]
