BEIRUT — While banking-sector restructuring and the resolution of Lebanon’s financial crisis remain their overriding concern, another issue has been quietly unsettling Lebanese banking circles in...
BEIRUT — Banque du Liban (BDL) has ordered banks to allow mothers to create accounts for their minor children, according to a circular issued Friday. The central bank said the measure comes within...
Her answers are sharp, her gaze icy. On the terrace of the Palais, she is admired from afar, with few daring to approach. Between phone calls, Tilda Swinton willingly agrees to sign autographs for...
“Your newspaper is a bit like the Tower of Babel; I hear French, English and Arabic,” jokes a visitor in the halls of L’Orient-Le Jour.A Tower of Babel indeed, but with one major difference: Beyond...
For 24 hours of doubt and hesitation, the future of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Lebanon, and even that of the Iranian axis, was at stake. What happened during those hours? Who gave the order to...
President Joseph Aoun received Banque du Liban (BDL) Governor Karim Souhaid on Saturday, following Souhaid’s election as chairman of the board of governors of the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) for a...
19:21 Beirut Time Rescue teams still prevented from accessing bombed site in Majdal Selm The Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense have so far not obtained authorization from the...
A warning to several addressees: The sanctions announced Thursday by the U.S. Treasury against nine officials in Lebanon caused a real internal earthquake. The list is long: three lawmakers and a...
Iran on Saturday accused the United States of sabotaging negotiations to end the war with "excessive demands," while a change in Donald Trump's schedule fueled speculation about a...
After weeks of negotiations, signatory countries to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) once again failed to agree on priorities for the coming years, despite fears of a renewed arms race....
Wissam Lahham is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Saint Joseph University of Beirut, specializing in constitutional law, the modern political history of Lebanon and monetary...
A lawyer for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil vowed on Friday to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that opened the...
الدكتور وسام اللحام أستاذ محاضر في معهد العلوم السياسية في جامعة القديس يوسف في بيروت وباحث أول في المفكرة القانونية. متخصص في القانون الدستوري و تاريخ الفكر السياسي. تحل ذكرى مئة عام على...
