Posted By
Najib
Jan 01, 2020 05:02
New reports are emerging on which country has the largest gold reserves in the world, with Lebanon ranked 20th worldwide with 286.84 tons of gold and second largest in the Middle East. This is not surprising as there were plenty of similar reports in the past years, but I am not sure how useful all these reserves are when the economy is at the brink of collapse. We have very high physical gold reserves relative…
Posted By
Najib
Dec 31, 2019 02:00
Mohammad el Zo3bi, Tripoli's amputee protester, is one of the most heartwarming stories of this revolution. El Zo3bi lost his leg in a car accident few years back and was spotted during the many protests cleaning the Tripoli square. Dr Raed Lattouf was able to get in touch with Mohammad and took a personal initiative to help the young man. A month later, Mohammad is now walking on both legs after he got his prosthetic…
Critiques
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IPSOS conducted a survey on the October Revolution using a sample of 1020 Lebanese aged 18 years and above and shared the below findings: – 93% of Lebanese supported the Revolution at the beginning vs ...
Critiques
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Ever since Diab was assigned to form a new government, I’ve been hearing a lot of calls to give this man a chance in order to speed up the formation of the cabinet and stop ...
Critiques
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Critiques
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Critiques
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One of the first slogans of the Revolution was “All means all of them” and the way Lebanese politicians have dealt and continue to deal with the ongoing protests is proving more and more that ...
Critiques
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The 2005 Cedars Revolution and the 2019 October Revolution may have different backgrounds, but they share one common trait: The same ruling parties who hijacked the 2005 revolution are trying to do the same with ...
Critiques
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This week witnessed the second strike organized by gas stations in Lebanon, claiming they are suffering losses from being forced to purchase dollars at fluctuating rates. Truth be told, the lack of dollar in the ...
Critiques
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Today marks the 40th day since the Revolution started and from the looks of it, things aren’t going to cool down anytime soon especially when there’s no government in sight. On one hand, protests on ...
