Information International: Jawad Adra Articles

Jawad Adra Articles

Jawad Adra, the managing partner at Ii, has written tens of articles concerning economic, social, and humanitarian issues. Following are the main articles that were published in Annahar newspaper & Ii Monthly.

In Annahar


- 31/10/2003	المجتمع المثقوب	146k

- 22/09/2003	اقتصاد النسيان والفوضى المنظمة	149k

- 03/08/2002	الفئات الثلاث	82k

- 29/03/2002	أنتم انا	170k

- 02/02/2002	قطار السراب	120k

- 09/01/2002	لبنان والارادة المستترة	116k

- 20/12/2001	القيمة المضافة والعاجز المقتدر	104k

In The Monthly

- September 2009: The Emirate of Lebanon Or the Not-United Not-Lebanese Emirates	English	Arabic

- August 2009: What it means to be young and Arab?	English	Arabic

- July 2009: Lebanon Election: Stockholm Syndrome and Florence Nightingale Effect	English	Arabic

- June 2009: Madeleine Albright, the leaders of Lebanon, and the banality of evil	English	Arabic

- May 2009: Barazek, Croissants and Siniora Declare the End of March 8th and 14th	English	Arabic

- April 2009: Citizen Zero (0) is Now Citizen “Slash”(/)	English	Arabic

- March 2009: The Disastrous Ride	English	Arabic

- February 2009: The city and the clouds: “Us” and “Them”	English	Arabic

- January 2009: Citizen Zero Dreaming of Trains and Libraries	English	Arabic

- December 2008: Citizen Zero & The Casino	English	Arabic

- November 2008: "Randa Died"	English	Arabic

- October 2008: The Tent - Part 9 or The Tent of Those Without a Tent	English	Arabic

- September 2008: The Tent - Part 8 or The Tent of Tents	English	Arabic

- August 2008: The Tent - Part 7	English	Arabic

- July 2008: The Tent - Part 6	English	Arabic

- June 2008: The Tent - Part 5	English	Arabic

- May 2008: The Tent - Part 4	English	Arabic

- April 2008: The Tent - Part 3	English	Arabic

- March 2008: The Tent - Part 2	English	Arabic

- February 2008: The Tent - Part 1	English	Arabic

- January 2008: When “they” correct “our” history	English	Arabic

- December 2007: The Disastrous Ride	English	Arabic

- November 2007: Discover Lebanon's Third or More...	English	Arabic

- October 2007: When the "Sunni" count their dead	English	Arabic

- September 2007: A Straw Nation	English	Arabic

- August 2007: An Arena and a Lab	English	Arabic

- June/July 2007: "Their News Bulletins are Bullets"	English	Arabic

- May 2007: The Hidden Third	English	Arabic

- April 2007: A Railway between Sunni and Shi'a so we don't miss the Train	English	Arabic

- March 2007: Saints, Traitors, Villains and Fools with Two Airports	English	Arabic

- February 2007: 33 Riddles of Numbers and Symbols from Lebanon Lexicon	English	Arabic

- January 2007: Lebanon's Wars, Why?	English	Arabic

- December 2006: The Lebanese Syndrome: Maintaining the System, & Depleting the Resources (5)&(6)	English	Arabic

- November 2006: The Lebanese Syndrome: Maintaining the System, & Depleting the Resources (4)	English	Arabic

- July 2006: The Lebanese Syndrome: Maintaining the System, & Depleting the Resources (3)	English	Arabic

- June 2006: The Lebanese Syndrome: Maintaining the System, & Depleting the Resources (2)	English	Arabic

- May 2006: The Lebanese Syndrome: Maintaining the System, & Depleting the Resources (1)	English	Arabic

- June 2005: The Minister with a Modest House	English	Arabic

- February 2005: The Oppressive, The Marginalized and The Missing Third	English	Arabic




- May 2002: A Word from Us	English

- July 2002: A Word from Us	English

- August 2002: Good Diesel, Bad Diesel	English

- September 2002: Red Tape	English

- October 2002: Beyond numbers and governments	English

- November 2002: A Word From Us	English

- December 2002: A correct step on a faltering path	English

- January 2003: A victory without winners, a battle without warriors	English

- February 2003: Privatization or Liquidation?	English

- March 2003: The profitability of organized chaos	English

- April 2003: Empower or privatize	English

- May 2003: Survival of the consumer society	English

- June 2003: Trains and libraries	English

- July 2003: Lebanon’s contagious ma’alesh	English

- August 2003: Celebrations over the grave of Berytus	English

*- September 2003: Has the ‘shater’ Lebanese finally run out of tricks?**	English	Arabic

- October 2003: The Lebanese University: A pilot reform project	English	Arabic

- November 2003: Lebanon’s black hole	English	Arabic

- December 2003: Reflections on independence	English	Arabic

- January 2004: The greatness of Lebanon	English	Arabic

- February 2004: Capital punishment and mathematics	English	Arabic

- March 2004: “Us” and “Them” (Part I/5)	English	Arabic

- April 2004: The tribes of mercantilism and reform (Part 2/5)	English	Arabic

- May 2004: The Pendulum or Anomic State: ‘Us‘ and ‘Them‘ (Part 3/5)	English	Arabic

- June 2004: We are not “there” yet	English	Arabic

- July 2004: The city and the clouds: ‘Us‘ and ‘Them‘ (Part 4/5)	English	Arabic

- August 2004: “Us” and “Them” (Part 5 of 5): The sheikh’s turban and the cowboy’s hat, or morality and justice...?	English	Arabic

- December 2004: Secrets, Scandals and Emigration	English	Arabic

Current Statistics

USD 214 million is the recorded net profit of Solidere in 2008 marking an 18% increase from 2007.

USD 881 million is the total amount reached for Insurance premiums in 2008.

LBP 5,065 billion is the estimated cost of allotments, salaries and wages in the 2009 draft public budget, forming 31% of total expenditures. Meanwhile, public debt service forms 39% of budget spending.

LBP 135 billion is the sum paid for public servants and workers for their children’s education. Most of the employees enroll their children in private schools leading to an indirect government support of private schools.

LBP 19.5 billion is the sum paid by the government as rent allowances for estates used by UNIFIL peacekeepers in the South of Lebanon.

LBP 30 billion is sum allocated by the government in the 2009 draft budget to provide financial aid for attending students in public schools. The government allocated LBP 750 for primary education and LBP 1,000 for intermediate education for each attending student per day.

Last Updated September 2009