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The Absent Leviathan: The Fate of Power Sharing in Lebanon

Baaklini, May (2023-09-11)

This thesis critically examines the underlying reasons behind the failure of Lebanon's political system in regulating internal conflicts and assesses if the current political framework is salvageable. Furthermore, it ...
Adaptation and Validation of Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale for Adults in A Lebanese University

Mansour, Zeinab (2024-05-09)

Executive functioning (EF) plays a crucial role in self-regulation across various aspects of life, yet its definition remains varied within literature. This study aims to validate and adapt the Barkley Deficits in Executive ...
Agrarian Modernization and Change in Morocco: The Case of the Plan Vert

Sabri, Safaa (1/31/2022)

In the context of the 2008 global food crisis, the Moroccan government launched the Plan Maroc Vert (PMV), the country’s rural strategy for the next decade ambitioning to make agriculture a key sector for economic growth ...
Al-Akhbar's Leftist Discourse: Another Alternative That Maintains The Same Status Quo

Mdawar, Elissa (5/5/2023)

This thesis develops a critical analysis of the leftist alternative discourse offered by Al- Akhbar. Al-Akhbar was launched based on the alliance between a major leftist voice in Lebanon which is the Lebanese Communist ...
Al-Tabib: Medical Knowledge Production and Exchange in 19th Century Levant

Nabulsi, Dana (2022-09-15)

Medicine, as many other fields, underwent a major transformation in the 19th century. At the turn of the century, there were four modern medical schools in the Ottoman Empire, two of which were in the Ottoman provincial ...
The Alignment between Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards Translanguaging and their Classroom Practices in Mathematics Multilingual Classrooms in Lebanon

Bassaj, Rana (5/4/2023)

Mathematics education in Lebanon is conducted in various multilingual contexts. When mathematics is taught in a second language, translanguaging – the use of the full linguistic resources – has become a matter of concern ...
Alternatives to the Sectarian Personal Status Laws: New Lebanese Conceptualizations of Secularism and Legal Pluralism in the Arab Post-Uprising Context

Rau, Marlen Sofie (2/7/2022)

Lebanon is characterized by a pluralistic personal status law (PSL) system on the basis of religion. This means that the 18 religions officially recognized by the state do not follow one civil PSL, but instead 15 different ...
Approaching The Qur'an Through The Lens of Muhammad Shahrur: A Critical Analysis

Hallak, Nancy (2022-04-20)

“Read the Qurʾān as if it was revealed last night”, is a statement said and endorsed by the Syrian academic Muḥammad Shaḥrūr (1938-2019). Distinct from the long-established theory that to understand the Qurʾān is to first ...
Archaeobotany in Lebanon, Case Studies Proving the Value of Implementing Archaeobotanical Analysis in Excavations

Soubra, Marya (5/5/2023)

This research aims to prove the importance of archaeobotanical analysis in archaeological contexts. In Lebanon, many archaeological excavations are conducted. Yet, the number of archaeobotanical analyses implemented for ...
Archaeology of the Mtein and Kfar Selouan Road: A GIS and Landscape Analysis

Azar, Nathan (2024-05-09)

Due to increased urbanization and development in the 21st century, archaeological evidence of road networks has grown more difficult to acquire. Landscape archaeology has tools to continue investigating routes and road ...
Armenia: Growth Spillovers through Geography, Institutions, Trade and Linguistic Distance

Melkonian, Marina (4/28/2023)

This research paper studies the importance of spatial interaction and dependence of 11 countries on each other to pursue economic growth during 1995-2019. Two spatial models were conducted, the SAR and SEM models, using ...
An Assessment of the Vulnerability of Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon

Coban, Elif (2/6/2023)

With the political instability that has prevailed in Lebanon since October 2019, followed by a global pandemic and a deepening concurrent economic crisis after the Beirut Port explosion on August 4, 2020, Syrian refugees ...
Bargaining with Patrilineality Women’s Struggles within the Lebanese Sextarian & Repro-Normative Legal & Bureaucratic Structure

Zammar, Vanessa Nour (2/10/2023)

The Lebanese legal and bureaucratic state apparatus maintains the status quo along two intersecting legislations: the nationality law & personal status laws. They enshrine the state’s patriarchal sextarian apparatus, that ...
The Beirut Coffeehouse and Café

Medearis, Anna Kathleen (2/2/2023)

Beirut, a city with multiple histories, multiple profiles, and contested cultural identities, remains at the heart of cultural production. I argue that the Beirut coffeehouse and cafe shed light on Beirut’s identity, serving ...
Beirut Mirroring Palestine: Ethnographic Mapping of Two Novels by Elias Khoury (The Little Mountain, 1977 and The Journey of Little Gandhi, 1989)

Madi, Bana Abdallah (2023-09-04)

This thesis falls under the literary anthropology research methodology after my personal experience on how certain literary works by Elias Khoury helped me create an imagination about a lot of spaces especially in Beirut ...
Between Stages and Pages: Philosophical Interventions in Sa'dallah Wannous' Theatre

Obeid, Nour (2024-05-27)

This thesis examines the published works and the private library of Sa’dallah Wannous, which arrived at AUB in 2015. It does so by bridging the gap between the marginalia and penciled marks in the philosophy books he owned ...
Between the Nights and the Ass: frame narrative and embedding-framing structure

Frangieh, Bouchra (2024-01-17)

In Metamorphoses better known as The Golden Ass, Apuleius narrates the transformation of Lucius into an ass and composes his work by compiling a string of tales. Apuleius intricately weaves popular tales in his narrative. ...
Beyond the Logics of Identity Politics: Voting Behavior in Lebanon’s 2018 Elections

Touma, Hoda (2024-05-10)

Due to the overriding presence of identity politics in the Lebanese context, analyses of voting behavior have focused on sectarian cleavages and clientelistic practices as the main determinants that shape the voting ...
BOOSTING AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS’ ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY NOURISH AND OPERATE

Ayrout, Alphonse (6/17/2022)

The proposed multi-year project will support farmers and other value chain and associated sector actors in areas of Beqaa and Akkar focused on the production of wheat and vegetables, seeking a territorial approach and ...
Borderland Transformation: Colonial Ottomanism in al-Karak, 1893-1918

Connell, Thomas (2022-09-12)

The purpose of this essay is to show how the empire established a system of governance referred to as Colonial Ottomanism in the town of Karak and its environs, one of the southernmost districts in what in the Province of ...

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