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

- 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

LBP 45.2 million is the compensation paid by the Higher Relief Committee to the Mayor of Beirut Abdel Mone’am al-Aris as compensation for a burglary of his house located in the town of Khartoum in Saida by the end of January 2007.

LBP 75.4 billion is the estimated compensation paid in explosions and assassinations for Lebanon since the assassination attempt against Minister Marwan Hamadeh and until the end of September 2007. An amount of LBP 27.1 billion was paid and included LBP 2.6 billion in the assassination of Deputy Antoine Ghanem; LBP 428 million in the assassination of Deputy Walid Eido; and LBP 1.3 billion in the assassination of Deputy Gebran Tueni.

LBP 4.5 billion is the Treasury advance payment to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority to cover its expenditures, in particular mobile lines expenses.

LBP 452 million was paid by the Lebanese government to BNB Paribas through the Higher Privatization Committee for setting privatization plans.

LBP 2,523 is the estimated allowances, salaries and wages of civil servants for the year 2008, including LBP 116.8 billion as school tuitions.

Last Updated Mar-Apr 2008