Independent Research & Evidence for Lebanon

A non-partisan research institution publishing evidence-based investigations and ideas for Lebanon's future.

Latest research

• From the Ashes of History to the F1 Checkered Flag: What If Beirut Had Its Grand Prix?
• The Untouchables: Lebanon’s Lifers, Fiefdoms, and the Sectarian Architecture of Impunity
• The Canton Divide: Why Christian and Muslim Municipalities Look Like Different Countries
• Dancing on the Graves: The Sursock Palace Wedding and the Audacity of the Warlords
• The Cult of the Checkbook: How Wealth Buys Moral Amnesty in Lebanon
• The Joe & The Juice Paradox: Performative Consumption and the Crisis of Lebanese Identity
• Russian Roulette on the Asphalt: The Anatomy of Lebanon’s Lethal Roads
• The Untouchables Series: Lebanese Passports, False Identities, and the Accountability Gap
• The Chronic Patient: How Lebanon’s Political System Keeps the State on Life Support
• Remittances: Lebanon's Lifeline and Its Trap
• Stop Waiting for Heroes: Reform Is a Spreadsheet, Not a Savior
• The Geneticist Who Decoded Rett Syndrome: Huda Zoghbi's Long Game
• Who Appoints the Judges: The Mechanics of Judicial Capture
• Lebanon’s Electricity Crisis: What the Public Record Shows
• The Classroom Exodus: What Teacher Emigration Is Doing to Lebanese Education
• The Quiet Empire: How Lebanese Families Built São Paulo's Textile District
• The Diaspora Vote Is Not a Detail. It May Be the Whole Game.
• The Paper Trail of the Port: Procurement, Custody and the Questions Nobody Answered
• After the Freeze: What a Lebanon–Gulf Reset Would Actually Require
• Paying More for Less: Benchmarking Lebanon's Telecom Costs Against the Region
• The Ones Who Came Back: Three Founders Building Companies From Beirut Anyway
• Whose Losses? How $76 Billion in Bank Losses Were Allocated Without a Vote
• You Cannot Fix a Health System You Refuse to Measure
• Mapping the Parasite: Rima Slim's Fight Against a Disease the World Forgot
• Sixty Days of Wheat: Lebanon's Food Security Margin in Numbers
• The Bridge Builder: Mia Khalil and the Infrastructure of Second Chances