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Mike Azar
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Mike Azar
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Commentator on Lebanon’s never-ending financial crisis. International structured and project finance.
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    Mike Azar
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    Nov 27, 2024
    An analysis of the ceasefire deal: The question of who won and who lost this war is not particularly interesting. Each side will claim whatever is in its best interest to claim. The more meaningful question is: what will be its impact on the various actors, particularly in
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    Mike Azar
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    Feb 22, 2022
    The newly opened National Library in Beirut (Sanaye3) is incredibly nice. It’s open weekdays from 8-2. Great spot to work or read. Go check it out!
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    Mike Azar
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    Aug 8, 2020
    لا تتلفون الوثائق في الوزارات! يمكن أن تكون دليلاً على الفساد وجرائم أخرى.
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    Mike Azar
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    Feb 12, 2021
    Lebanon’s political leaders requested that the COVID vaccine arriving Sunday be given FIRST to them & their entourage. That’s dozens of people of all ages, when we barely have enough for healthcare workers. The World Bank rejected the request,which is an outrageous abuse of power
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    Mike Azar
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    Sep 21, 2022
    Our PM brings his nephew to all the high-level political meetings. Here he is at the UN General Assembly meetings in NY, meeting with the US Sec of State. Why is he there exactly? Corruption and nepotism. Your children pay to give a billionaire PM's nephew personal connections.
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    Mike Azar
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    Jan 4, 2021
    I rarely talk about my day job, but a project I've been working on for 5 yrs just won "Global Deal of the Year" for 2020. It's a $20+ bn gas project in Mozambique, the largest investment ever in Africa, all during a pandemic & only 3 yrs after Moz defaulted on its Eurobonds. 1/
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    Mike Azar
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    Aug 5, 2020
    I‘m not able to construct the right words to describe what I saw and heard in Gemmayze yesterday. We don’t move on from this. This system has to go, right now. It has to be uprooted by force. 1/
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    Mike Azar
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    Jul 6, 2021
    1/ The reason there's no meaningful Chinese/Russian investment in Lebanon is the same reason there's no meaningful US investment in Lebanon: There are no good large-scale investment opportunities here. No reforms, no stability, no growth, no good business environment, etc.
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    Mike Azar
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    Jun 1, 2021
    Let me tell you a story about MP Faysal Karami (Tripoli). He owns/runs the Islamic Hospital, a private hospital in Tripoli that doubles as a money laundering, fraud, clientelism/vote buying, public embezzlement operation.
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    Gebran Bassil
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    Jun 1, 2021
    بذكرى استشهاد الرئيس رشيد كرامي نستلهم صفات رجل الدولة التي نفتقدها اليوم فهو رجل الميثاق بما هو اعتراف متبادل ببعضنا البعض وواضح ان هذا النهج يكمله اليوم النائب فيصل كرامي
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    Mike Azar
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    Oct 17, 2021
    When the revolution started and then the NERDS gained some notoriety in Fall 2019, I truly believed that we could avoid the economic conditions we're living today, that we had a responsibility to make sure of it. I dedicated every single day to that mission.
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    Mike Azar
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    Oct 16, 2020
    How do people get work done in Hamra? I spend an irrational amount of time negotiating with cats.
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    Mike Azar
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    May 29, 2020
    Lebanese people man, sooooo effing funny and creative... #امريكا_تنتفض Can this be our export????
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    Mike Azar
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    May 22, 2020
    Can we do a Zoom call with every journalist, reporter, and TV interviewer in Lebanon to help them better understand the details of this crisis so they can challenge their guests from the Government, the Bank, and BDL better? All we are hearing is evasive answers from everyone.
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    Mike Azar
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    Nov 23, 2020
    Wow thanks for the love, friends. I despise shouting and this topic is too important and technical for a five minute shouting match. But I hope you gained something from the episode. We can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the past. We have to learn and move on.

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