The exploitation of gas off the Gaza Strip could bring $4 billion to Palestine per year. Here lies one of the reason of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The war in Ukraine is significantly affecting global energy and food prices. EU and Europe as a whole, face strong economic headwinds with some countries trying to derive economic benefits from ...

Alain Pilloux is the vice president for banking at EBRD, or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, whereby Pilloux revealed that the bank has made a $75 million investment in Lebanon so ...

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 ...

The UAE is positioned uniquely for riding the wave of ecotourism. The UAE ecotourism drive attempts to underscore the region’s “tourism potential” in its ‘natural wonders’. The “Ministry of Climate ...

Beekeepers in Yemen face twin risks: if they are not struck down from the air by air strikes, they have to carefully navigate the ground as they traverse through the country’s valleys crisscrossing ...

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 ...

Lebanese banks are doing all that they can to pump in more dollars to the economy. In a move in that direction, customers willing to exchange hard currency into long term deposits for the Lebanese ...