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Issue 189

Post-Taëf Lebanese Governments

December 28 2022

Issue 188

1,052 LEBANESE MUNICIPALITIES

December 5 2022

Issue 187

LEBANON'S 2022 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

August 31 2022

Issue 186

NGOS IN LEBANON 301 IN ONE YEAR

March 7 2022

Issue 185

RENTAL OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS LBP 200 BILLION ANNUALLY

December 16 2021

Issue 184

A Light in the Dark Tunnel Lebanese imports declined by USD 8 billion

August 3 2021

Issue 183

LEBANON IN 2020 AN OVERVIEW

May 7 2021

Issue 182

334 ‘AMBULATORY’ DECREES 1986-1988 2013 & 2014

February 3 2021

Issue 181

No legislative powers for post-Taef governments

November 19 2020

Issue 180

USD 3.4 BILLION IN CONSUMPTION SUBSIDY

September 24 2020

Issue 179

MOSA AIDS TO NGOS LBP 172 BILLION

July 14 2020

Issue 174

38 OUT OF 160 GRADE 1 POSTS

February 7 2019

Issue 173

LEBANON STATE WORKS AND PROJECTS

November 1 2018

Issue 172

Lebanese Parliamentary Elections 2018

August 7 2018

Issue 171

Lebanon’s insoluble Electricity Crisis: USD 36 Billon Wasted 1992-2018

April 13 2018

Issue 170

Lebanon 2017: Two Case Studies on Inefficiency in Public Administration

January 2 2018

Issue 169

Private-free Schools are not Free!

November 2 2017

Issue 168

Donations To The Lebanese Government In 2016

July 5 2017

Issue 167

Lebanon's Public Works Projects 2007 - 2017

June 7 2017

Issue 166

Post-Taef Lebanese Governments

January 23 2017

Issue 165

Cultural Heritage vs. Concrete

October 17 2016

Issue 165

السلع الغذائية والإستهلاكية المدعومة 357 سلعة بقيمة 3.4 مليار دولار

September 24 2020

Issue 165

السلع الغذائية والإستهلاكية المدعومة 357 سلعة بقيمة 3.4 مليار دولار

September 24 2020

Issue 164

The Results of Municipal Elections Lebanon 2016

July 19 2016

Issue 163

Baladiyat 2016

September 13 2016

Issue 162

Information International Polls the Lebanese on Current Issues

January 19 2006

Issue 161

Parliamentary Election Law

December 9 2015

Issue 160

Political Inheritance

November 12 2015

Issue 159

Lebanon’s Experience with Dialogue 1975-2015

October 1 2015

Issue 158

Usurpation of Coastal Public Property 5 million m2: when will the state recover them?

September 1 2015

Issue 157

Lebanon’s Audit Court Report for 2010, 2011 and 2012 “Three in One”

August 1 2015

Issue 156

Interpreting the figures of Lebanon’s 2015 draft budget

July 1 2015

Issue 155

Lebanon’s Budget 2014 LBP 1145 Billion Transferred From Inexistent Reserves

June 1 2015

Issue 154

Aging Politicians of Lebanon

May 1 2015

Issue 153

Isssue 153 | April 2015 | Lebanese Army (2013-2015) 91 martyrs in two years

April 1 2015

Issue 152

Crime in Lebanon 2014

March 1 2015

Issue 151

Lebanon’s University student enrollment (2004-2012)

February 1 2015

Issue 150

Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs: Slicing the Cake

January 1 2015

Issue 149

Lebanon: Any Reason for Optimism?

December 1 2014

Issue 148

Casino du Liban: 60 Years After the Decision of Establishment

November 1 2014

Issue 147

Car Bombings in 2013-2014

October 1 2014

Issue 146

The Lebanese University Facts and Stats

September 1 2014

Issue 145

The Republic of Concrete: Beneficiaries From the Increase In Built-Up Areas (2000-2014)

November 30 -0001

Issue 144

Lebanon Without a Budget Since 2005

September 13 2016

Issue 143

Lebanese Parliment

June 1 2014

Issue 142

Lebanon's Rent Act: A New Drain on the Public Pursue

May 1 2014

Issue 141

Drug Use and Trafficking in Lebanon

April 1 2014

Issue 140

Lebanon's Ministerial Portfolios: Rotation or Manipulation?

March 1 2014

Issue 139

Gazi Aridi Top Spender: USD 1 Billion on Roads

February 1 2014

Issue 138

Lebanon’s Ailing Health Sector

September 13 2016

Issue 137

Lebanon’s Promised Oil Wealth

September 13 2016

Issue 136

Curbing Domestic Violence In Lebanon

September 13 2016

Issue 135

History of Car Bombs in Lebanon 1985

September 13 2016

Issue 134

Pay Scale

September 1 2013

Issue 133

Lebanon’s Teachers Incessant Demands for pay Increase

September 13 2016

Issue 132

Lebanon’s Usurped Coastal Properties

July 1 2013

Issue 131

Lebanon’s Parliament 2009-2013

September 13 2016

Issue 130

Mechanic Inspection Centers

September 13 2016

Issue 129

Lebanese MPs Receive Highest Benefits Worldwide

April 1 2013

Issue 128

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Lebanon

March 1 2013

Issue 127

China 2013

September 13 2016

Issue 126

Solidere Marks Its 21st Anniversary

January 22 2013

Issue 125

The Lebanese Loaf of Bread

December 19 2012

Issue 124

The Fifty District Proposition

November 19 2012

Issue 123

Ranks and Salaries Scale Sees the Light But...

October 19 2012

Issue 122

Lebanon’s 2013 Elections

September 13 2016

Issue 121

2013 Parliamentary Elections: March 8 Forces Win by Proportionality and March 14 by Plurality

August 19 2012

Issue 120

Foreign Acquisition of Property: 65,000 Non-Lebanese Own Over 34.8 Million M2

July 19 2012

Issue 119

Salaries in the Public Sector: Widening Gap

June 19 2012

Issue 118

UNDP and the Ministry of Social Affairs: Who Pays What?

May 19 2012

Issue 117

Budget-less Lebanon

April 7 2012

Issue 116

Rent Act: Twelve Extensions and a New Law is yet to Materialize

March 19 2012

Issue 115

Denaturalization of the Naturalized

February 19 2012

Issue 114

Lebanese Official Exams: Public Schools Vs Private Schools - Little Difference

January 19 2012

Issue 113

The State Appropriates Private Land and Sells its Own

December 19 2011

Issue 112

The UN International Independent Investigation Commission and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon

November 19 2013

Issue 111

Syrian Deposits in Lebanese Banks: Between Myth and Reality

October 19 2011

Issue 110

Lebanese Prisons: Overcrowded and Chaotic

September 19 2011

Issue 109

Construction in Lebanon

August 19 2011

Issue 108

The Traveling Government

July 19 2011

Issue 107

77 Maronite Patriarchs: From Mar Maroun to Bechara Al-Rai

June 19 2011

Issue 106

What is the Confessional System in Lebanon that

May 19 2011

Issue 105

Deposits in Lebanese Banks 1993-2010 - $98 Million Increase: Half in the Last Three Years

April 19 2011

Issue 104

Military Expenditures: Salaries 93% Vs Weaponry 1%

March 19 2011

Issue 103

$128 Million Annually and the Garbage is Piling

February 19 2011

Issue 102

Bishop Ignatius Mubarak

January 19 2011

Issue 101

Republic of Informats

December 19 2010

Issue 100

Sharing the Lebanese Government Apparatus (1975-2010)

November 19 2010

Issue 99

Lebanon's Artesian Wells

September 13 2016

Issue 98

The Ministry of Social Affairs and its Beneficiaries

September 19 2010

Issue 97

The Lebanese and Facebook

August 19 2010

Issue 96

Ministry of Interior: $554 Million and 40,000 Employees

July 19 2010

Issue 95

Judiciary Republic of Lebanon

June 19 2010

Issue 94

Military Republic of Lebanon

May 19 2010

Issue 93

Banks Republic of Lebanon

April 19 2010

Issue 92

Lebanon’s Ambassadors, Who are They?

September 13 2016

Issue 91

1,646,307 Vehicles in Lebanon: 50% of new cars are mortgaged; 76.5% of vehicles are more than 10 years old

February 19 2010

Issue 90

Siniora's Governments Broken Promises

September 13 2016

Issue 89

Cost of Official Security Escorts in Lebanon: LBP 60 Billion Per Year

December 19 2009

Issue 88

End of Taif: 8 Violations, 7 Pending, 4 Implemented

November 19 2009

Issue 87

Cost of MPs Grows: LBP 180 Million per MP

October 19 2009

Issue 86

UNDP - Lebanon

September 13 2016

Issue 85

USD 2 Billion in Bank Deposits before 2009 Elections

August 19 2009

Issue 84

Lebanon's Election 2009

September 13 2016

Issue 83

Elections, Drugs and Public Debts

June 19 2009

Issue 82

Numbers for the Lebanese Memory

May 28 2009

Issue 81

Removal of Confession from Civil Registry Records

April 19 2009

Issue 80

Lebanon's Infrastructure

September 13 2016

Issue 79

Lebanon NGOs Mushrooms or Civil Society ?

September 13 2016

Issue 78

95% of Awarded Contracts Not Tendered

January 19 2009

Issue 77

Stamped at Birth: Voting at 18 or 80. Does it Matter?

December 19 2008

Issue 76

Lebanon's Trap

September 13 2016

Issue 75

Social Decay of Lebanon

October 19 2008

Issue 74

Friend and Foe: The Lebanese Polled - Qatar, France and Saudi Arabia = Friends; Israel, USA and Britain = Enemies

September 19 2008

Issue 73

The Banking Sector in Lebanon: A Family Business

August 19 2008

Issue 72

The Lebanese Polled : No One is the Number 1 Za'im

September 13 2016

Issue 71

The Lebanese Confessionally 'Boxed'

June 19 2008

Issue 70

Post War Reconstruction: Where did the Money go?

May 19 2008

Issue 69

Lebanese Alchemy: Morphing Garbage into Gold

April 19 2008

Issue 68

53% of Maronites Unsatisfied with Patriarch's Performance

September 13 2016

Issue 67

Election Law 1960: Election Law or Mousetrap?

February 19 2008

Issue 66

Lebanese TV stations consider themselves objective and independent

January 19 2008

Issue 65

Favor a Temporary Military Takeover and a Referendum on Lebanon's Identity

September 13 2016

Issue 64

Lebanese Presidential Elections

November 19 2007

Issue 63

Envoys Serving their Countries Zu'ama Serving Themselves

September 13 2016

Issue 62

Decay of the Confessional System

September 19 2007

Issue 61

Lebanese Army Victims: 3,815 Since Independence

August 19 2007

Issue 60

A Farewell to Disarmament

June 19 2007

Issue 59

Lebanon Religious Leaders. Who Holds them Accountable?

May 19 2007

Issue 58

The Meltdown: 135,000 Lebanese Youths Towards Emigration

April 19 2007

Issue 57

Declining Support to Politicians and 81% Support the Lebanese Army and Security Forces

March 19 2007

Issue 56

14% of Lebanese Read Books; 41% of Lebanese Ready to Use Arms

February 19 2007

Issue 55

Lebanon 2007: 2 Presidents, 2 Parliaments, 2 Governments & Many Cantons, or a Temporary Compromise

January 19 2007

Issue 54

Lebanon School Students

December 19 2006

Issue 53

Lebanon: Patronage and Senior Civil Servants

November 6 2006

Issue 52

Ministerial Statement: 18 Clauses

October 6 2006

Issue 51

57.6% with the Abduction of the Israeli Soldiers; 89.3% with the Deployment of the Lebanese Army

September 19 2006

Issue 50

Lebanon Day in International Criminal Court

August 19 2006

Issue 49

6 years in the Reign of Bashar Al-Assad. What Has Changed?

July 19 2006

Issue 48

Will Lahoud be the Last President of the Republic?

June 6 2006

Issue 47

1 Year After the Withdrawal of Syria. What Has Changed?

May 19 2006

Issue 46

People's Choice

September 13 2016

Issue 45

Will History Repeat Itself ?

March 19 2006

Issue 44

University Students : We Trust ?

February 19 2006

Issue 43

The Politics of Violence: 220 Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations Since Independence

January 19 2006

Issue 42

The Lebanese Public Opinion After the Issuance of Mehlis's Report

September 13 2016

Issue 41

The Lebanese Public Opinion Before the Issuance of Mehlis's Report

September 13 2016

Issue 40

Switching Sects: In God We Trust?

October 6 2005

Issue 39

The 3 Priorities According to the Lebanese People: 75.8% Curbing Waste and Corruption

September 6 2005

Issue 38

The Truth

August 6 2005

Issue 37

Parliament 2005

July 6 2005

Issue 36

Faces and Promises

June 6 2005

Issue 35

The Vicious Cycle of Corruption in Lebanon

May 6 2005

Issue 34

Where is The Truth ?

April 6 2005

Issue 33

Rebels and Ruins

March 6 2005

Issue 32

Networking

February 6 2005

Issue 31

Shifts...

January 6 2005

Issue 30

The SEVEN Governments

December 6 2004

Issue 29

2005 Budget: Too Little, Too Late

November 6 2004

Issue 28

Still on Hold: Administrative Reform

October 6 2004

Issue 27

Another Three Years...

September 6 2004

Issue 26

Concrete Interests

August 6 2004

Issue 25

Measuring Poverty

July 6 2004

Issue 24

Rules are for Bending...

June 6 2004

Issue 23

The Road to Waste

May 6 2004

Issue 22

Public Debt: LL13.3 Billion in Daily Interest

April 6 2004

Issue 21

Lebanon’s Military Expenditures: $1.2 Billion per Year

March 6 2004

Issue 20

An Eye for an Eye?

February 6 2004

Issue 19

Evolving Patterns in Banking

January 6 2004

Issue 18

Tourism: Reaping the Rewards

December 6 2003

Issue 17

Central Inspection: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

November 6 2003

Issue 16

Religion 101

October 6 2003

Issue 15

Cash-strapped Industry and Trade

September 13 2016

Issue 14

The Politics of Religion

September 13 2016

Issue 13

Operation Naturalization

July 6 2003

Issue 12

Spotlight on Insurance in Lebanon

June 6 2003

Issue 11

Lebanon’s Municipalities: Profile and Status

October 30 2017

Issue 10

Maintain or Liquidate

October 30 2017

Issue 9

In the Hands of a Few: Top 10 Banks Pack in the Profits

March 6 2003

Issue 8

Privatization Activities of the Higher Council

February 6 2003

Issue 7

Sectoral Performance: The Year in Review

January 6 2003

Issue 6

Number-crunching the VAT

December 6 2002

Issue 5

Gray Areas in the Audio-Visual Media Law

November 6 2002

Issue 4

WANTED: $7.2 Million a Day, Is the 2003 Budget on the Right Track?

October 6 2002

Issue 3

The Soaring Cost of Health: No Quick Cure

September 6 2002

Issue 1

Picking Up the Pace: Syria’s Banking Reform

July 6 2002

Issue 0

A Monopoly in Disguise

May 6 2002

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