The urban typology of the city of Saida has the typical urban design problematic of a medieval city reshaped and transformed by forces of modernization and population growth. At the beginning of the last century, the old ...
Three years after the Tunisian uprising that ended Ben Ali’s authoritarian rule, the National Constituent Assembly voted law 53-2013(TJ law) to institutionalize the country’s journey of transitional justice and to establish ...
Since the early nineteenth century, Lebanon's equilibrium rested on a balance between its communities and its leaders. War broke out whenever some social, economic, or political event upset this delicate balance and disrupted ...
The shift from an industrial to a post-industrial society in which information and technology are dominant has significantly affected educators and educational leaders (Stevenson, 2006). Findings of empirical studies on ...
The Mu‘allaqa of the poet Labīd is one of the most analyzed poems of the massive pre- modern Arabic corpus in modern times. It comes as no surprise that the poem is also one of the most translated into foreign languages, ...
The Black Glasses is a short story about an artist who had good principles and ideals and always endeavored to defend them. Then he met a young woman who had followed the dark side of life. He loved her and helped her ...
This thesis proposes a security-based transmission expansion planning computer program. The security of power transmission systems is assessed by performing a contingency analysis on a list of equipment outages. The status ...
Transmission expansion planning processes embed many uncertainties including load forecast, load distribution and expansion paths. As restructuring and deregulation concepts are introduced to the power industry, additional ...
This thesis tackles the importance of transparency in the process of public budg eting in developing countries and particularly in Lebanon. Public budgeting is t he process through which tax policies and expenditure ...
Large-scale urban construction poses significant logistical challenges. The transport of large quantities of excavated material, concrete, and construction material in urban areas needs to be conducted in a manner that ...
This work reports on the investigation of the effect of the partial replacement of Cu2+ by Fe+2 and Zn+2 on the superconducting properties of the new high tempe rature superconductors Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu(3-x)FexO10 and ...
The Lebanese Transport sector is highly dependent on private cars. This fact made the sector energy-intensive. It is the second large energy consumer in Lebanon, only after power generation. Plus, it accounts for 23% of ...
This thesis examines the spatiality of trauma in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection, and it links this spatiality to the notion of working through trauma. Combining a text-led close reading of Ward’s novel and ...
Major changes are likely to occur in the transportation situation in the city of Beirut over the next few years. First, the redevelopment of the Central Business District is being planned and is likely to have a significant ...