HEADLINES Rebuilding Syria: Who is counting on sharing out the cake? History is being written as we speak. Since Syrian rebels entered Damascus unopposed in December 2024, toppling President Bashar al ...

Paul Tourret heads the High Institute of Maritime Economy (ISEMAR) in Saint-Nazaire (France). For ByTheEast, he looks back on China's investments in the region, and on the transformation of ...

Lebanon has been in the midst of a severe economic crisis since 2019. With soaring inflation rates, job losses, and a significant drop in GDP, the country's financial state is dire. Despite the IMF's ...

Agriculture in Ukraine has come of age and has regained some of its former status. Once again, this Central European country has emerged as the granary of the continent. Europe's 3rd largest ...

Food security is a crucial issue that affects the entire world, but it's particularly important in the Middle East where many countries such as Lebanon, Syria or Egypt heavily rely on food imports.

A documentary has been released which revealed that behind the last year’s hacking of the news agency run by Qatar state are agents who work in Riyadh within a Saudi Ministry. Al Jazeera based out of ...

The glamorous rate of the Lebanese Pound, artificially indexed to the US dollar for so many years, is history now. In recent months, the pressure on Lebanon’s economy is seeing a pile-up. Not only ...

Although the beaches of the Lebanese coastal city of Jounieh are a popular destination for relaxation and water sports in the bay, the bacteria levels in the water acts as potential health hazard.

HEADLINES USAID Shutdown: What it means for Lebanon The Trump administration's decision to close USAID programs has had the effect of a diplomatic bomb. What will the repercussions be for Lebanon?

Acting as the executive director at the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) since June 2019, Nadim Houry brings up the many challenges Arab World countries – and more particularly Lebanon – are facing ...

Lebanon should not avoid all the laws of gravity. As elsewhere in the world, agriculture should be the backbone for our country since it caters to the most basic human need of satiating hunger through ...

Since 2002, Lebanon’s energy ministers have struggled to find and have not come out with a working solution to the country’s chronic electricity problem. Every person who headed the country’s Energy ...