Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between actual people and events is purely coincidental. A version of this article was first published in Arabic in Akhbar newspaper October 14, 2019. ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ βIf you want to understand a man, walk a mile in his shoes.β Riad Salameh sat in his plush [...]
Dan Azzi
[This article was originally published in An-Nahar on March 24, 2019 and created a media frenzy such as this report attacking me] Adventures in Forensic Accounting: Last Monday I received an excel spreadsheet from MJ, a bright young man, a couple of years out of college, whom I met last year at a controversial lecture at AUB (LINK HERE). [...]
Dan Azzi
(First published in An-Nahar October 22, 2018) βRemember, if you believe it, itβs not a lie.β George Costanza Most people donβt know that a tomato is actually a fruit not a vegetable. It took my attending a Botany course at AUB for me to learn this very useful tidbit of information, which comes in handy when Iβm short cash and need to [...]
Dan Azzi
(First published in An-Nahar Oct 13, 2018) I was a kid in a small town, Damour, and Iβd hear about this terrible disease, when people would make the sign of the cross, whispering solemnly, βFlen has the disease whose name cannot be uttered. May Allah deliver us from it!β In fact, several people, with the complicity of the attending [...]
Dan Azzi
(Originally published in An-Nahar October 2018) Most so-called local economic reports read more like (bad) poetry, rather than providing actionable intelligence. One such report on real estate, from a few years ago, said: [...]
Dan Azzi
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