The human being by conventional wisdom and scientific study is to a very large part a creature of habit. Discovering and ...

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 ...

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Gibran Khalil Gibran’s poem Pity the Nation, published in 1933, could almost have been written about lockdown in modern day Lebanon. Most prophetic is the line “pity the nation that eats a bread it ...

As students across the world got ready for their first day back at school last fall, they could not have known that they would be spending almost all of the last trimester at home, communicating ...

Ahmad Barclay Ahmad is an architect, visual communicator and product designer. He is a partner with Visualizing Impact, and is actively engaged in various projects involving data and visual ...

My grandfather died in 2016 at the age of 103. He survived two world wars, the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1916 – 1918), and the Lebanese Civil War. A few years before he died, I was with him as he ...

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.… ...

Lebanon has a high international capacity coming in through fiber optic cables, but internet speeds at the actual level of the user are overwhelmingly low.

In Lebanon, one in four people suffer from mental illness in their lifetime, according to non-profit mental health NGO Embrace. Mental health refers to the condition of a person’s emotional or ...

Developing a taste However, it may be the Lebanese consumer that is affecting the quality of olive oil present in the market, having gotten used to oil pressed the traditional way. “Lebanese don’t yet ...

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 ...