This thesis examines post-war Anglophone Lebanese Women’s fiction in Nada Awar Jarrar’s Dreams of Water and Zena El Khalil’s Beirut, I Love You. Through the careful analysis of the aforementioned novels, this thesis argues ...
I explore al-Jāḥiẓ’s literature, and I focus on his theorization of writing and the techniques, strategies, notions, real -and imaginary- addressees that it includes. I research these topics in three primary sources: Kitāb ...
Writing anxiety among college students has been given considerable attention (Da ly and Miller, 1981). But little is known about writing anxiety among university students in Beirut, Lebanon. This study examines the degree ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school teachers' percepti ons of their students' writing needs and their perceptions of the role of writin g centers in Lebanese schools. The following issues were ...
This thesis exposes the way in which Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (2001) and Zena el Khalil’s Beirut, I Love You (2009) intersect through their female characters. In the process of writing ...
This thesis interrogates three works of modern and contemporary Egyptian literature on revolution to validate the field’s need for a nuanced reading method, one that celebrates close reading for cultural specificity in an ...
This work employs X-ray computed tomography (XCT), coupled with machine and deep learning techniques to non-destructively evaluate the quality (detecting defects and differentiating of materials) of dissimilar friction ...
Web Services are widely used to provide services and exchange data among busines s units, customers, partners and suppliers. Although the structure of Web Servic es significantly improves the interaction and development ...
XML is used as a standard format to store and exchange data over the web. Several querying languages were proposed and implemented to process XML data. XQuery in particular, was adopted by W3C in 2007 as a standard querying ...
On February 16, 2005 large segments of Lebanese society marched out onto the str eets to attend the emotional funerary march of the former Prime Minister Rafic H ariri, who was killed in a car bomb attack two days earlier. ...
Iron deficiency chlorosis (FeDC) causes extensive reduction in yields of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) grown on high pH and calcareous soils. Three cultivars differing in response to FeDC were grown on a high pH ...
This thesis explores yoga practices in Beirut through the lens of yoga practitioners and teachers living in the city. I use my position as ‘an accomplished apprentice’ (Wave and Wenger 1991) to draw my results from ...