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Najib
Mar 05, 2021 12:27
Joseph Al-Hajj registered back in January to get his vaccination slot, but never received any feedback from the authorities despite having priority as an 80-year old. In the mean time, the Health Minister was too busy sneaking vaccines for MPs and his buddies. After waiting for over a month, Al-Hajj resorted to Judge Carla Chawwah, who after studying his case, issued a decision at Beirut civil court ordering the health ministry to provide vaccination to…
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Najib
Mar 04, 2021 04:51
After having shut down all their branches in mid-2020 due to the economic crisis, Reebook & Adidas stores are set to reopen in Lebanon by April after Azadea had acquired the franchises to both brands. Azadea is the company that owns and operates brands like Zara, Mango, Massimo Dutti, and hundreds of others in the region.
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Najib
Mar 04, 2021 04:25
The Big Mac Index was created in 1986 by The Economist and is an "informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries". They basically do that by measuring each currency against a common standard – the Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald's restaurants all over the world. Now that that Lebanese…
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Najib
Mar 03, 2021 08:12
Anghami has officially completed a merger with Vistas Media Acquisition Co. Inc., a publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company and is now the first ever Arab technology company to list on NASDAQ New York. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 of 2021 and will value the company at between $220 million and $230 million according to co-founder and CEO of Anghami Eddy Maroun. Anghami has recently moved its headquarters from Beirut to Abu-Dhabi, and…
Health
4 years ago
Lebanon’s Health Ministry stated earlier this week that it has authorized 20 private companies to import COVID-19 vaccines, but a Ministry official said the local companies “have so far faced rejection from the companies that ...
Critiques
4 years ago
Joelle M. Abi-Rached published on twitter the full report by the Central Inspection following the first week of COVID-19 vaccination in Lebanon. Looking quickly at the numbers in the report below: – 28,080 doses of ...
Economics
4 years ago
Valentina Finckenstein, the author of this LSE Ideas study entitled “How International Aid Can Do More Harm Than Good: The Case of Lebanon“, questions the effectiveness of international aid to Lebanon throughout the last three ...
Economics
4 years ago
The minimum wage in Lebanon is LL675,000 which was the equivalent of $450 prior to October 2019, is now worth 70$ ONLY! And given the rate at which the LIRA is deteriorating recently, it will ...
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