In postwar Lebanon, feminist activism emerged as a distinctive sphere within
the broader field of civil society activism. In this context, feminist activists
navigate and counter the power dynamics of the heteropatriarchy, ...
In October 2011, the moderate Islamist party Ennahda garnered 41.7percent of votes on Tunisia’s first free and fair elections, making it the first party in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Why did this happen in a country ...
The aim of this thesis is to critically examine some contemporary formulations of the empiricism-nativism debate.--In the introduction. I present an overview of the historical debate, and under the assumption that the ...
Beirut, which lies at the Eastern Mediterranean shore, is subject to two different types of dust storms. These dust storms, which are of Arabian or African origins and have different characteristics, result in an increase ...
The Lebanese Civil War (1970-1989) has left the country in need for a rescue plan to rebuild it. In order to finance this program, the government was forced to exponentially increase the issuing of treasury bills which led ...
At the eve of the Financial Crisis that exploded in the summer of 2007, another more vital crisis came into view, the Food Prices Crisis. Riots protests and conflicts invaded a vast number of countries urging public ...
The objective of this study was to identify the different commitment profiles of the teachers in Armenian private schools and to investigate the factors that act as motivators and demotivators in a Highly committed and a ...
Students' perceptions of the interest and usefulness of certain mathematical top ics and processes and their reflection in the curriculum was studied in four pri vate schools in Lebanon. Two of the schools were of high-upper ...
American bias, with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict is often the subject of much discussion. If the media has a profound effect on public opinion, it is wo rthwhile to go back to the beginning of the conflict and ask ...
Romantic love is a topic largely absent from the social scientific inquiry in the Arab world. Although it has deep historical, literary, and artistic roots in the region, many scholars have traditionally reduced romantic ...
The Palestinian freedom fighter or fida'i is an icon of national heroism and hyper-masculinity that inhabits both popular refugee narratives and official nat ionalist discourse. He was born from the socioeconomic ...
The number of children working in the street in Lebanon is difficult to determine. In recent years the influx of families seeking asylum and refuge in Lebanon from the on-going Syrian crisis has made the visibility and ...
When an adverse fiscal shock occurs -a war, for example - someone has to pay. The government can satisfy its budget constraint, now or in the future, by raising taxes, reducing other spending, or imposing a capital loss ...
The academic study of terrorism has been dominated by a disciplinary method that is entirely strategic; it tends to reflect geopolitics with the academic purpose to identify, combat, and prevent terrorism in all avenues, ...
Rotavirus is considered globally the leading cause of severe diarrheal infections among children under the age of 5 years and is responsible for about 215 000 deaths annually. Rotaviruses are classified based on their ...
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are becoming a huge health concern, and their rates are dramatically increasing worldwide, more specifically in the MENA region and Lebanon. Unhealthy food consumption patterns ...