Lebanon’s Startups Are Rising Above Crisis to Transform the Country’s Economy
When Lebanon’s currency collapsed and public services began to fail, founders were forced to build under conditions that most startup ecosystems never test for: unreliable electricity, frozen banking systems, and a shrinking domestic market. What emerged was not a pause in innovation, but a shift in how it happens. Rather
Inside the Startups Rebuilding Systems in Yemen
For more than a decade, Yemen has dominated global imagination through a narrow and unrelenting frame. News coverage has been dominated by airstrikes, humanitarian appeals and political deadlock, reducing a complex country to a shorthand of crisis. Yet this lens rarely captures how life has continued in parallel to the
Years of War Made Lebanon a Blueprint for Mental Health Tech
Luma Makari was in an online meeting about her company last week when the bombings in Lebanon began. Working from her family home in Beirut, the 25-year-old Lebanese tech entrepreneur rushed to open her windows to prevent them from shattering from the blasts, a practice many people in parts of
Fadi Ghandour on Big Tech Buying the Region: “I Would Call It Western Dominance”
In January this year, when asked what occupies his mind, Fadi Ghandour didn’t separate business from politics, or technology from society. He rejected the premise altogether. “I don’t think I can separate myself from work, and so I look at my whole existence as one,” he says. “Everything that happens
