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Halat al-Istithna' wa al-Muqawamah fi al-Watan al-'Arabi

Hanafi, Sari (Centre for Arab Unity Studies, )
Heart of Beirut: Reclaiming the Bourj

Khalaf, Samir (Saqi Books, )
How distinctive are indigenous ways of achieving influence? a comparative study of guanxi, wasta, jeitinho, and pulling strings

Smith P.B.; Huang H.J.; Harb C.; Torres C. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2012)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the cultural specificity of guanxi, wasta, and jeitinho, each of which has been identified as an indigenous process of informal influence. Students in Brazil, China, Lebanon, and ...
Human (in)security: Palestinian perceptions of security in and around the refugee camps in Lebanon

Long, Taylor; Hanafi, Sari (Taylor & Francis Group, 2010-10-27)

Based upon over 20 hours of focus groups and in-depth interviews with diverse representation from three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the authors analyse Palestinian perceptions of both Lebanese and Palestinian ...
Human (in)security: Palestinian perceptions of security in and around the refugee camps in Lebanon

Long T.; Hanafi S. (, 2010)

Based upon over 20 hours of focus groups and in-depth interviews with diverse representation from three Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the authors analyse Palestinian perceptions of both Lebanese and Palestinian ...
Human Rights and Citizenship Education

Kiwan, Dina (Routledge, )

This book considers the philosophical, sociological, and legal implications of the distinction between universal human rights accorded to all because of their membership of the human species, and the more particularistic ...
Humor in the collectivist Arab Middle East: The case of Lebanon

Kazarian S.S. (BERLINGENTHINER STRASSE 13, 10785 BERLIN, GERMANY, 2011)

The Lebanese people are lovers of the social and the humorous, and the soul of their humor is manifest in their social gatherings, tales, civil and religious celebrations, songs, jokes, literature, theatre, cartoons, and ...
Humour styles, personality, and well-being among Lebanese university students

Kazarian S.S.; Martin R.A. (CHICHESTERTHE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND, 2004)

This research examined the structure and correlates of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) in Lebanese university students. Four humour factors were found, as in the original Canadian samples: Affiliative, Self-Enhancing, ...
The ideological positions of engineers in Syria

Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 1997-12)

In this article I examine the potential ability of engineers to assert themselves as modernizers, i.e. to define themselves from the viewpoint of their profession, relative to their country's economic development. In this ...
Imaging the imagination: The trouble with motor imagery

Dietrich A. (SAN DIEGO525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA, 2008)

Sports and exercise psychology finds itself in a most unfortunate situation these days. While all other branches of the psychological sciences help themselves freely to the glitzy new toys of modern neuroscience-MRI and ...
(In)Security and reconstruction in post-conflict Nahr al-Barid refugee camp

Hassan I.S.; Hanafi S. (BERKELEYC-O JOURNALS and DIGITAL PUBLISHING DIVISION, 2000 CENTER ST, STE 303, BERKELEY, CA 94704-1223 USA, 2010)

This article examines the intersection of the Lebanese state's post-conflict security policy in Nahr al-Barid refugee camp and the reconstruction of the camp, which was destroyed in a battle between the Lebanese army and ...
Individualism-collectivism as descriptive norms: Development of a subjective norm approach to culture measurement

Fischer R.; Ferreira M.C.; Assmar E.; Redford P.; Harb C.; Glazer S.; Cheng B.-S.; Jiang D.-Y.; Wong C.C.; Kumar N.; Krtner J.; Hofer J.; Achoui M. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2009)

The development and validation of a new instrument for measuring the descriptive norms related to individualism-collectivism (IC) is presented. IC is conceptualized as a group- specific unidimensional cultural construct ...
Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise

Hanafi, Sari; Arvanitis, Rigas (Routledge, )

Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have ...
Leaving mother-land: The anti-feminine in fida'i narratives

Kanafani S. (PHILADELPHIA325 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 USA, 2008)

This article analyzes the way retired Palestinian fighters in Lebanon narrate their years of combat with the Palestinian Resistance Movement. I argue that these narratives exhibit a shunning of feminine spatial and symbolic ...
Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground

Khalaf, Samir (Saqi Books, )

Lebanon today is at a fateful crossroads in its eventful socio-cultural and political history. Imperiled by unsettling transformations, from post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation to the forces of post-modernity and ...
Linkages between number concepts, spatial thinking, and directionality of writing: The SNARC effect and the REVERSE SNARC effect in English and Arabic monoliterates, biliterates, and illiterate Arabic speakers

Zebian S. (, 2005)

The current investigations coordinate math cognition and cultural approaches to numeric thinking to examine the linkages between numeric and spatial processes, and how these linkages are modified by the cultural artifact ...
Living inside or outside a camp. Palestinian refugees in Egypt and in the Palestinian territories [Vivre dans le camp, vivre ailleurs. Les Palestiniens réfugiés en Egypte et dans les Territoires palestiniens]

Hanafi S. (, 2006)

With respect to Palestinian refugees in the Arabic countries it helps to make a distinction between two groups: the first includes those in the refugee camps of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and West Bank and Gaza, even those who ...
Mapping expressive differences around the world: The relationship between emotional display rules and individualism versus collectivism

Matsumoto D.; Yoo S.H.; Fontaine J.; Anguas-Wong A.M.; Arriola M.; Ataca B.; Bond M.H.; Boratav H.B.; Breugelmans S.M.; Cabecinhas R.; Chae J.; Chin W.H.; Comunian A.L.; Degere D.N.; Djunaidi A.; Fok H.K.; Friedlmeier W.; Ghosh A.; Glamcevski M.; Granskaya J.V.; Groenvynck H.; Harb C.; Haron F.; Joshi R.; Kakai H.; Kashima E.; Khan W.; Kurman J.; Kwantes C.T.; Mahmud S.H.; Mandaric M.; Nizharadze G.; Odusanya J.O.T.; Ostrosky-Solis F.; Palaniappan A.K.; Papastylianou D.; Safdar S.; Setiono K.; Shigemasu E.; Singelis T.M.; Solcovaiva P.; Spiess E.; Sterkowicz S.; Sunar D.; Szarota P.; Vishnivetz B.; Vohra N.; Ward C.; Wong S.; Wu R.; Zebian S.; Zengeya A.; Altarriba J.; Bauer L.M.; Mogaji A.; Siddiqui R.N.; Fulop M.; de Melo Garcia Bley L.; Jose A.; Garcia F.M.; Grossi E. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2008)

Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emotional expression and despite the fact that it has been more than 30 years since this concept was coined, there is ...
The marginalization of the Arab language in social science: Structural constraints and dependency by choice

Hanafi, Sari; Arvanitis, Rigas (SAGE Publications, 2014-09)

This article aims at questioning the relationship between Arab social research and language by arguing that many factors including the political economy of publication, globalization, internationalization and commodification ...
Media Exposure, Mediated Social Comparison to Idealized Images of Muscularity, and Anabolic Steroid Use

Melki J.P.; Hitti E.A.; Oghia M.J.; Mufarrij A.A. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2014)

This study examined the association between anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use and dominant sociocultural factors, specifically media exposure to idealized images of male muscularity, and mediated social comparison ...

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