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What it’s like to work at Snapchat, one of the most secretive companies in tech

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October 8, 2016

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Biz Carson and Alex Heath

When a group of Snapchat employees got locked out of their building one Monday morning, they quickly realized their predicament was no accident.

A top-secret Snapchat team had swooped in overnight and taken over the office, de-activating the keycards of the current tenants in the process. The secret newcomers eventually allowed their colleagues back into the building and partitioned the space, while a third group of Snapchat engineers that was scheduled to move into the same building that morning was left to keep working on plastic tables in a crowded, barely renovated house.

The incident was both jarring and typical of the chaotic life at the fast growing Los Angeles tech startup.

At Snapchat, which recently renamed itself Snap Inc, secrecy and upheaval come with the job. Evan Spiegel, the 26-year-old cofounder and CEO, moves across the company’s network of Venice Beach outposts in a black Range Rover, flanked by his security detail. New employee orientations begin with a Fight Club-like list of forbidden topics of discussion. And internal projects blossom out of nowhere — and vanish suddenly — without explanation.

Here’s How This EMBA Entrepreneur Is Using Sports To Make A Social Impact In Lebanon

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October 8, 2016

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Written by Marco De Novellis - businessbecause.com

The Middle East is often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Yet amid the wars, the terrorism and the tension, new generations of entrepreneurs are looking to change perceptions, drive societal change and improve quality of life.

Among them, Saleh el Khazen, a Lebanese innovator using sports to make a social impact. Over the past decade, Saleh has worked on construction projects in Qatar and Lebanon.

He’s a partner and board member of the pioneering ELKA construction group and founded its Lebanon-based subsidiary - project development and management company Sminds - before embarking on a project management-focused EMBA at SKEMA Business School.

The French “Grande école” jets its EMBA students off to study at a range of international campuses; in Oslo, Shanghai, Dallas, and, as of 2017, Belo Horizonte in Brazil. The program culminates in the “capstone project” where students can build business plans for their own entrepreneurial ventures.

The Thriving Designers Who Dominate Beirut’s Flourishing Scene

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October 8, 2016

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by By RIMA SUQI nytimes.com

Beirut, in the words of one designer I talked to recently, is like a third world country that’s put on some makeup.

It is the capital of a country that has not had a president in two years. There are daily power outages. It can take an hour to heat water to take a shower, and garbage removal is a serious problem. There are almost no street signs, but one can summon an Uber relatively easily.

Despite all this, or perhaps because of it, creativity thrives in Beirut, which seems to have more than its share of architects, interior designers, industrial designers and artists. Most speak at least three languages, have been educated in other countries and have multiple passports, so they could live someplace seemingly easier.

“There is a soul here that you can’t find anywhere else,” said Nada Debs, a designer in her 50s with a shop in downtown Beirut.

Lebanese Social Worker Sisters Tackle Radicalization

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October 6, 2016

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Nancy (left) and Maya Yamout have been visiting Islamist militants in Lebanon's Roumieh prison for the last five years.

BEIRUT, LEBANON —

Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a gamut of other Islamist groups were in discussion and, for once, religion and politics were not on the agenda.

Instead, led by two pioneering social workers, the talk was to be of their fears, their hopes, their regrets. “The moment you refer to religion or politics it becomes an endless debate,” explained Nancy Yamout, who along with her sister Maya has been overseeing sessions that also include art therapy.
“Religion is part of it, of course, but we’re not sheikhs, we’re social workers. We want to look at how they have reached this point socially and psychologically.”

For five years they have worked within the prison as they search for a new way to respond to radicalism, a search that is now taking them from the Islamists of Roumieh prison into neighborhoods of the dispossessed.