The Beiruter

In the second installment of a three-part investigation, The Beiruter traces how political mobilization, Hezbollah’s rise, and decades of war transformed Dahiyeh into one of Lebanon’s most politically charged places.

While most analysts dismiss Iran's stock market as too manipulated by the state to matter, even authoritarian financial markets can serve as a window into otherwise opaque elite interests. In recent decades, the Tehran Stock Exchange has foretold which sanctions worked, and which didn’t.