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New Lebanese online marketplace Mawsam aims to connect local producers to a larger audience. More often than not, and especially for the past year, news from Lebanon have not been good, if not outright bad. The country’s economic, social and security turmoil is getting worse by the day, amidst concerns of violence and even civil […]

  In 1968, very few people knew about Dubai. It was the year the government of Kuwait donated its old black & white TV studios to the government of Dubai. It was also the year Kuwait Television started transmission from Dubai. This new station’s managing director – the late – Riad Al Shouaibi soon realized […]

While Lebanon fails to lure the usual summer tourist crowds, the industry adapts to survive Five years have gone by since Lebanon topped The New York Times’ list of must-see places in 2009, while Beirut was named one of the liveliest cities in the world by Lonely Planet that same year. It was the summer […]

Lebanon is now in the throes of a deep political and economic crisis that had been brewing for years, and the communication industry is hit hard. Naji Boulos, founder of Jicebe Creative Consultancy, former Managing Director of Memac Ogilvy Lebanon, and past president of the IAA-Lebanon chapter gives a harsh but realistic assessment. What is the […]