by Nadine Makarem | Aug 17, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hezbollah, gave a speech on Friday afternoon during a rally commemorating the so-called victory in the July 2006 war with Israel in which he condemned Thursday’s bomb attack on a...
by Nadine Makarem | Aug 9, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two Turkish Airlines pilots, Murat Akpınar and Murat Ağca, have been kidnapped today, Friday, August 9, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. According to local reports, six gunmen forced the two out of a shuttle bus less than a kilometer away from...
by Nadine Makarem | Jul 23, 2013 | Business
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Arab investors have been notorious among political economists for their preference for investing outside the Middle East. One favored destination for direct investment is the US, despite its recent economic problems. SelectUSA is a unit within...
by Nadine Makarem | Jul 3, 2013 | Business
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—London is set to become the first western city to host the annual World Economic Islamic Forum (WIEF), it was announced on Wednesday. The forum, set to be held in the city’s Excel Centre in October, was launched by the prime minister of...
by Nadine Makarem | Jun 5, 2013 | Media
Beirut/London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since the outbreak of the uprising against Bashar Al-Assad in Syria in 2011, the divisions between different factions in Lebanon over the crisis in neighboring Syria have been played out through the country’s media outlets. But...
