I've seen a lot of websites and even a mobile app pop up in the past weeks, showcasing the fluctuating LBP rates exchange by the day and even by the hour. The likes of LebaneseLira.net, LebaneseLira.org, Lirarate.com and others all pretend to derive prices from local exchangers and compute the average. There's no such thing as crowdsourced data and reliable sources when it comes to the Lebanese Lira, especially when the market is being run…

Who would have thought we'd have a revolution still going strong after three months? Who would have thought people would be taking the streets and shaming politicians anywhere they go? One thing we knew for sure is that politicians in Lebanon don't care about the people, and they're proving it more and more every day. Instead of stopping their salaries, working day and night to form a rescue government, show that they are willing to…

For all those still wondering what this revolution stands for and what are their demands and goal, and more importantly the steps to get there, AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs has visualized in one diagram the most common demands & goals of 51 groups who took part in the #October_Uprising through 4 identified tracks: Politics, Governance, Economy, and Society & the Environment. We all know the context, the demands are…