There is a woman at Anthropic whose job title, in plain English, is something close to the keeper of Claude's conscience.

The world is undergoing a profound reordering, and nowhere is this more visible than in the Middle East. Over the past two ...

The Ministry of Culture (MoC) has launched a new strategy for Lebanon’s creative and cultural industries (CCI). Based on inhouse research and stakeholder interaction, the surprisingly extensive ...

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

Though Lebanon has a high international capacity coming in through underwater fiber optic cables — to the likes of several hundreds of megabits per second (Mbit/s) — internet speeds at the actual ...

On January 25, 2015, the creation of a union for domestic workers was announced in Beirut. In an atmosphere teeming with excitement, more than 200 women who work in Lebanese homes — including ...

Israel’s long-prepared revenge strike against their arch-enemy Hezbollah under a pretext of securing the return of their internally displaced population to the northern holy land, long ago a peaceful ...

Public transport is part of Lebanon’s mobility heritage, as is evident by our popular culture. In the song entitled “Ala Hadir el-Bosta,” the late Joseph Sakr sings of his love Alia’s pretty eyes ...

Health and wellness have long been an integral part of Middle Eastern culture. The most common Arabic phrase used for greeting someone—keef el-sohat?—asks after a person’s health. Another common ...

In terms of number estimates, what do you see as the total cost of Lebanon’s recovery from war damages and economic meltdown, and what would you say the opportunity costs of conflict (the foregone ...

Ahmad Barclay Ahmad is an architect, visual communicator and product designer. He is a partner with Visualizing Impact, and is actively engaged in various projects involving data and visual ...

In the attempt to assess the regional economic reverberations echoing out from two years of conflict triggered on October 7, 2023, Syria stands apart as somewhat of an outlier. Given that in the year ...