Category: Threading Trends

  • Lebanon experiences the largest global losses in Human Development amidst its worst-ever financial crisis.

    A compounded crisis, consisting of an economic and financial crisis layered by the COVID-19 pandemic and a massive, deadly explosion of the port, has not only assailed Lebanon’s macroeconomy; but has also insidiously trickled down to impede and reverse the country’s progress in Human Development.  Lebanon has experienced the greatest global drop in the United… Read more

  • Is Lebanon experiencing a revolution of the mind?

    Is Lebanon experiencing a revolution of the mind?

    Tagged on one of the pillars of the resuscitated Egg in downtown Beirut is “ثورة فكرية”  (revolution of the mind), a statement whose hidden artist scrawled to describe the nationwide protests that have commanded the streets of Lebanon since October 17, 2019.  The protests attracted millions of Lebanese people from different confessions, regions and socio-economic… Read more