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 ...
Low female labor force participation and high female unemployment rates in the M ENA region, in particular for youth, have been assumed to be the result of the c ontinued prevalence of patriarchal values in society: man ...
Youth (aged 15-24) in the Arab region face numerous challenges in terms of integ rating into the labor market. They have among the lowest labor force participat ion rates, the lowest employment-to-population rates, and the ...
The study of youth migration enhances our knowledge of the responsiveness of ind ividuals to economic incentives and efficiency of the spatial allocation of reso urces. The objective of this thesis is to find the determinants ...
Although the agricultural sector has always been a catalyst for economic growth in countries such as the ones situated in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, young people are still succumbing to the stigma ...
The aim of the thesis is to explain certain strong partial orderability properti es of zero-dimensional Hausdorff spaces which are continuous images of compact l inearly ordered topological spaces. This is based on a 1989 ...