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Lebanese tech firms combine expertise in strategic partnership

From the Daily Star, by Your’s Truly - Published on December 27th, 2008 - Click here for the original
BEIRUT: A strategic partnership between Lebanese technology companies EDM and eSharing is breaking the “go-it-alone” status quo of the Middle East IT sector. eSharing will develop enterprise resource software that interfaces directly with EDM’s new Global Positioning [...]

Forbes.com: Lebanon festive for now, but tough issues ahead

Forbes.com: Lebanon festive for now, but tough issues ahead

Although I find their analysis a little hackneyed and sadly standard, this is a nice article about the current calm and the future challenges facing Lebanon. As Nick said, “Using an unknown business man as the central pillar of a tired argument does seem like a stretch.” From the article:
Construction cranes dot Beirut’s Mediterranean skyline. [...]

Beirut workshop stresses need to respect copyrights

Beirut workshop stresses need to respect copyrights

By Yours Truly, Published in the Daily Star on December 24th, 2008 - Click here to see original
BEIRUT: The Education’s Ministry decision to make intellectual property rights (IPR) the theme of its SchoolNet project in 2009 highlights the growing prioritization of anti-piracy initiatives in Lebanon. Education Minister Bahia Hariri delivered a speech to a workshop [...]

Photos from the Cedar Reserve

Photos from the Cedar Reserve

You’ll find a deck of pictures from my trip to the Cedar Reserve in Shouf, Lebanon, here: http://williamcurtisdonovan.com/photos/?album=1&gallery=10 - the first half of the gallery is of pictures on the way from Beirut to the Reserve, with some amazing pictures of the Shouf area where Karma is from. There will be a second gallery shortly [...]

Lebanon well-positioned to become hub for IT services

Link to the Original Article, Published December 5th, 2008, Daily Star
BEIRUT: Lebanon is well-positioned to offer web development, digital marketing, and information technology services to local, regional and international clients, according to several owners and partners of companies in and around Beirut. These experts agreed that Lebanon’s global position for IT services, outsourcing and off-shoring [...]

Beirut lecture explores modern marketing practices

Link to Original Article Published in the Daily Star, Published December 3rd, 2008
BEIRUT: The American University of Beirut (AUB) on Monday welcomed esteemed Harvard Business School professor John Quelch for a discussion on the ramifications and theories of his most recent book, “Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy.”
Quelch, the senior associate dean [...]

Where the present catches up with the past in a glass

Where the present catches up with the past in a glass

Hamra pub has weathered 44 years of wars and sieges
By yours truly - This is the most fun I’ve ever had writing anything. Ever. Pictures are my own and were not featured in the original article.
Click here for the Original Article from the Daily Star, Published December 2nd, 2008

BEIRUT: The speakers filter over the noise [...]

Another Weekend in Beirut

Another Weekend in Beirut

Waiting waiting waiting - Patience patience patience. This is my new mantra, and I’m not very good at it. Waiting to see what will happen at the Daily Star with my proposal, waiting for other people to make decisions about various other business ventures, waiting waiting waiting.
This weekend I spent Saturday morning finishing Robert Fisk’s [...]

The First Big Day - Exhausted, un-Turkey-ed, but Accomplished!

I’ve written and re-written the intro to this post half a dozen times. How does one sum up the feeling of being 9000 miles from home on Thanksgiving? It’s not exactly a good feeling - Actually it’s not much of a feeling at all - More of a sort of nagging non-feeling. I think that [...]

Checking In

I have not been good about staying in touch (besides the excitement of TWO stories published on international news wires in two weeks…) - I am really awaiting the return of my all important laptop computer from the Apple store so that I can upload my pictures from the past two weeks. I have some [...]