In October 2011, Syrian entrepreneur Mohaned Ghashim made one of the most difficult decisions of his life. For years, he had run two flourishing businesses in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and business hub. One of his enterprises was an online tenders portal for the Syrian market; the other was an e-commerce agency. He supervised a…
In an interview with Zaman al-Wasl, Dr. Osama Qadi, the head of the “Syrian Economic Taskforce” said Syria’s debt to Iran has reached $35 billion and the debt to Russia exceeds that amount. Dr. Qadi told Zaman al-Wasl that studies estimate that rebuilding houses destroyed in the fighting will require more than 2 billion US…
With no end in sight to a war that started six years ago, has claimed more than 465,000 lives, and displaced millions, it is fair to ask when is the right time to launch a much-needed effort to rebuild Syria. Should this effort start now, while the country is still ravaged by war, or once…
