Opinion

After fifteen years of civil war, in the early 1990s, Lebanon adopted a real estate–led recovery strategy for Beirut’s downtown through Solidere. Infrastructure was rebuilt,...

A long-simmering crisis in Yemen between former anti-Houthi allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE finally erupted in open clashes on December 30, 2025. Fighting between...

As 2026 unfolds, the landscape of post-conflict reconstruction is being reshaped by the growing prominence of private investment alongside traditional public donor commitments. The surge...

In the year since the ouster of the Assad regime, Syrians remain mostly hopeful having thrown out a brutal dictatorship, secured US, European, Regional and Russian recognition...

Remember John Lennon singing “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill of die for”. He did have a point: Aggressive...

Under Assad family rule, Syria was possibly the most centralized state in the Middle East. For decades, in a war-pressed environment, a dense web of...

For scholars and practitioners of the international economy, conflict and underdevelopment are two increasingly intertwined phenomena. Concerned about low-income countries? Two-thirds of them now fall...

Finance ministers attending the recent Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank clearly heard the alarm that Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah sounded on...

On July 21, 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocketed about 65 miles above the Earth’s crust. Another billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, did the same nine days...