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Executive Issue 119
June, 2009

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Lebanon - Insulated, not impervious
Banks’ record profits during global financial crisis becoming...

Banks’ record profits during global financial crisis becoming more modest Read full story

Banking Analysis - A look at the books
Banks listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange, by their numbers Read full story

Bank Audi - Freddie C. Baz
Group chief financial officer and strategy director Read full story

BLOM Bank - Saad Azhari
Chairman and general manager Read full story

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Bank Audi - Freddie C. Baz
Group chief financial officer and strategy director

Banking Analysis - A look at the books
Banks listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange, by their numbers

BLOM Bank - Saad Azhari
Chairman and general manager

Lebanon - Insulated, not impervious
Banks’ record profits during global financial crisis becoming more modest

A blue line dance
Despite recent speculation to the...

A poor cull in Egypt
Egypt has seen scores of human cases...

Foreign policy - America’s debate
Realist vs idealist arguments

Kuwait the unforgiving
It’s been 19 years since Saddam...

New tracks for the peace train
There has been a sudden change of...

The frontier of Iraqi investment
At the Invest Iraq conference, held...

The outdoors’ beauty and scars
For hundreds of years, travelers...

IWC - Georges Kern (Q&A)
The CEO has an Executive chat about watch making in a time of crisis

Orphans and the ghosts of martyrs past
This month’s Lebanese elections...

Engaging employees for the company’s success
The authors of Executive Insights...

Keeping one’s cool riding investment’s reflexive roller coaster
Most studies of historical risk and...

Private equity at the gates of public markets
Private equity investment in a public...

The need for renewable energy in an oil-rich region
Since 2000, many political and business...

Tuning the public relations machine for crisis
Companies around the world seem to...

Airlines - Borne by budget wings
New low-cost carriers launch from runways in Kuwait and Dubai

Qatar - Realty approaches reality
Price corrections a healthy development for young market

Swine flu - Paying through the nose
The potential costs of a worldwide pandemic

Last month (issue 119)
Week oneOil prices rose above $58...

Acres Development - Georges Kamal
A string of new shopping malls opening around Lebanon

Airlines - Delta landing
New office opens in Beirut

Automotives - Sales in the passing lane
Country’s car market accelerates to pole position in the region

Chrysler Car Group - Cesar Aoun (Q&A)
How Lebanon’s car industry is fairing in the global financial crisis

Election - The ballots bought
Vote fraught with fraud, corruption and coercion

Franchising - First Beirut, then the world
Lebanese brands band together to expand global reach

Investment - Business building blocks
Lebanese fund pushes entrepreneurship among SMEs

Real estate - Beirut in an eggshell
Bulldozers of development loom for one the city’s last iconic buildings

Real estate - The house made of brick
Despite the huffing and puffing, Lebanon’s prices won’t blow down

Rest & recreation - Clubs find summer’s groove
Still recovering from 2006 war, beach resorts prepare for party season

Education - Craters in the classroom
Region’s deficient learning institutions dearly in need reform

Jordan - Banks hold the fort
As fortunes dim across the economy, the banking sector carries the torch

Media - TV in the Arab world
Stations flourish while quality and rigor flounder

Regional relations - The Oriental assembly
Middle East’s rich and powerful gather to discuss the issues of the day

Social housing - A roof over every head
Low-to-middle income housing needs prompt public-private partnerships

Syria - The traveler’s new darling
Smitten by Syria’s charms, tourists flock from east and west

Turkey - The fires untended
Ankara absent in a economic crisis

BLOMINVEST Bank (issue 119)
Saudi liquidity surpasses $250 billionSaudi...

Morocco - Bank kings
Economy’s lenders still solid

Young Arab Leaders - Elwy Taymour (Q&A)
Chairman of Egypt YAL branch & managing partner at Pharos Holding

Young Arab Leaders - Salah A.H. al-Qahtani (Q&A)
An insighful perspective from the chairman of YAL in Saudi Arabia

young arab leaders - The first step in progress
YAL forum highlights need to transition from identifying problems to applying solutions

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