The investment scion stepped up to form a government—his third non-consecutive term—as Lebanon fights to stave off a societal collapse amid shortages of food and medicine.
Lebanon’s Mikati, billionaire and veteran premier
Najib Mikati, a billionaire businessman and Lebanon’s latest premier-designate, is a political veteran viewed by some as emblematic of the crony politics that steered the country towards collapse. The …
Lebanon’s Mikati, billionaire and veteran premier
Najib Mikati, a billionaire businessman and Lebanon’s latest premier-designate, is a political veteran viewed by some as emblematic of the crony politics that steered the country towards collapse. The …
Lebanese fleeing collapse at home seek security, salaries in UAE
Until a few months ago, 32-year-old Michelle Chaaya was a human resources professional at a multinational firm in Lebanon. Now she works as a bartender in Dubai, sending cash to her family back home …
Lebanon Left Behind: What America Can Do to Save Beirut
There is clearly no political appetite in Washington for costly foreign initiatives, especially not in the Middle East. Yet there are important steps it can take to move Lebanon toward stability …
Lebanon Left Behind: What America Can Do to Save Beirut
There is clearly no political appetite in Washington for costly foreign initiatives, especially not in the Middle East. Yet there are important steps it can take to move Lebanon toward stability …
Iraq signs fuel deal with Lebanon to boost its faltering power supply
Iraq has signed an agreement allowing the cash-strapped Lebanese government pay for 1mn tonnes of heavy fuel oil a year in goods and services, helping Lebanon ease its acute power shortage, the two …
Lebanon agrees fuel deal with Iraq in bid to ease crisis crippling nation that has led to 23-hour blackouts, medicine and water and food shortages
Beirut will be able to resell a million tons of heavy fuel oil from Iraq – fuel that Lebanon cannot use in its own power plants – to companies who would then provide useable fuel to Lebanon for a year …
Lebanon agrees fuel deal with Iraq in bid to ease crisis crippling nation that has led to 23-hour blackouts, medicine and water and food shortages
Beirut will be able to resell a million tons of heavy fuel oil from Iraq – fuel that Lebanon cannot use in its own power plants – to companies who would then provide useable fuel to Lebanon for a year …
Lebanon, Iraq strike fuel deal
Iraq and Lebanon on Saturday reached a deal that would allow Lebanon to sell Iraqi fuel to companies in exchange for Lebanese goods and services.