Projects
Across Syria, Lebanon, Germany and the wider region, these projects explore how policy can respond to political transition, economic recovery, institutional reform and regional change.
Some begin with research. Others with a policy problem, a partnership or a political moment. What connects them is the attempt to move from analysis to something usable — a programme, a reform proposal, a dialogue, a publication or a new institutional connection.
The archive also includes policy research, field courses, training programmes and filmed forums — work Nour often coordinated and collaborated on rather than writing as sole author.
Featured
The question
What could entrepreneurship look like in a country rebuilding its economy?
Building Syria’s Startup Ecosystem and Social Market Economy
A multi-layer programme connecting entrepreneurship, economic recovery, ecosystem research, policy reform and long-term institutional development.
The question
Who will shape Syria’s reconstruction — and under what rules?
Opportunities and Challenges
Two research studies examining Syria’s reconstruction environment and the conditions shaping international investment, with a particular focus on Europe and Germany.
The question
How can better economic understanding lead to better political decisions?
A Parliamentary Initiative for Sustainable Economic Governance
A long-term initiative bringing economic evidence into Lebanon’s parliamentary ecosystem through policy dialogue on taxation, public finance, investment, social protection and reform.
The question
What if talent could move without people having to leave?
Enabling Lebanon’s Digital & AI-Based Services Economy
A Lebanon–Germany initiative exploring how digital talent, remote work and regulatory reform can create new models of cross-border economic cooperation.
Archive
Dialogue · Programme
The question
What could entrepreneurship look like in a country rebuilding its economy?
A multi-layer programme connecting entrepreneurship, economic recovery, ecosystem research, policy reform and long-term institutional development.
Dialogue · Programme
The question
How do you strengthen public institutions and civil society at the same time during a political transition?
A governance pilot for Syria’s political transition: a Parliamentary Leadership Academy for MPs alongside a Civil Society Leadership Academy for youth-led organisations.
Dialogue · LAU · AUB
The question
What happens when Lebanon’s economics community sits in the same room as international scholarship?
Six seminars bringing internationally recognised scholars to Beirut for evidence-based economic discussion with local academics and policy audiences.
Policy · Lebanese American University
The question
Can academic research still reach the people writing Lebanon’s economic rules?
A research platform with LAU’s Department of Economics, turning academic work into policy discussion on competition, electricity, fiscal governance, AI, reconstruction finance and food security.
Dialogue · Parliamentary initiative
The question
How can better economic understanding lead to better political decisions?
A long-term initiative bringing economic evidence into Lebanon’s parliamentary ecosystem through policy dialogue on taxation, public finance, investment, social protection and reform.
Dialogue · Germany · Lebanon
The question
What does a political conversation between Lebanon and Germany look like in practice?
A multi-day delegation connecting Lebanese political actors with German and European policymakers, foreign-policy experts and public audiences.
Policy · Lebanon · Germany
The question
What if talent could move without people having to leave?
A Lebanon–Germany initiative exploring how digital talent, remote work and regulatory reform can create new models of cross-border economic cooperation.
Policy · Research
The question
Who will shape Syria’s reconstruction — and under what rules?
Two research studies examining Syria’s reconstruction environment and the conditions shaping international investment, with a particular focus on Europe and Germany.
Policy · Research
The question
Can regional connectivity become part of Europe’s energy resilience?
A research initiative on the Eastern Mediterranean energy landscape and its relevance to European energy security, diversification and emerging partnerships.
Policy · Research
The question
What does “return” actually mean when conditions remain uncertain?
A research initiative on who is returning from Lebanon, who remains, and what makes return sustainable — with a Germany–Lebanon comparison for wider policy debate.
Dialogue · Programme
The question
How do human-rights principles become everyday practice inside a security institution?
A human-rights and security-sector initiative embedding rights practice inside Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, building on the initiative launched in 2018.
Dialogue · Brandt School
The question
What does development work look like when geopolitics rewrites the job in real time?
Notes from a GFA Consulting Group event at the Brandt School: geopolitics and donor politics are rewriting development work — and the skills it now demands.
Fieldwork · Brandt School
The question
How does a city live with memory after violence?
A Brandt School field course in Bosnia on filmmaking and justice after violence, from Sarajevo studios to Srebrenica.
Media · KAS Lebanon
The question
What can a newsroom still do when the kit is a phone?
A KAS Lebanon course that trained reporters to shoot, edit and file from a phone — skills for newsrooms that are fast, thin on kit, and under pressure.
Dialogue · KAS Lebanon
The question
What does cooperation still mean between Germany and Lebanon in a crisis?
Filmed recap of a German–Lebanese forum on cooperation and development: policy, partnership, and what working together still means.
Policy · KAS Lebanon
The question
What would Lebanese company boards look like with more women on them?
A brief on getting more women onto private-company boards in Lebanon, including a 30% quota, and how firms could close the gap.
Policy · KAS Lebanon
The question
How was money supply used to stall reform after 2019?
Jean Tawilé’s paper on Lebanon’s monetary collapse after 2019, and the steps needed to halt hyperinflation and repair the banks.
Policy · KAS Lebanon
The question
Can splitting the system restart Lebanese banking?
A panel on whether a “good bank” and a “bad bank” can reconstruct Lebanese banking — practitioners arguing the reconstruction question, not a slogan.
Policy · KAS Lebanon
The question
Is a hard peg the way out of Lebanon’s currency collapse?
Lebanon is among the world’s most dollarized economies — and the lira’s crash made that a survival question. The report weighs exchange-rate options and argues for a hard peg, not a float.
Policy · KAS Lebanon
The question
What would a Lebanese economy look like if it were not run for political networks?
Jean Tawilé traces the crisis to post-war cronyism and sketches a more competitive, solvent economic model.
Media · KAS Lebanon
The question
What does courage look like as daily practice, not a speech?
Short portraits of people in Lebanon who keep working against the grain of collapse.