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 ...
This research aims at studying the notion of Philanthropy in Lebanon, specifically giving in higher education and healthcare. The study takes several paths; first, a theoretical background on philanthropy bridged with a ...
Electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) are devices used for nicotine delivery without combusting tobacco. They are marketed as a healthier alternative to regular tobacco cigarettes. While they have become increasingly popular in ...
This thesis presents an optimized, broadband, Doherty-based amplifier that employs an unequal power split between the main transistor and the six-auxiliary transistors. Different unequal power splits are adopted to optimize ...
The debate over moral intuitions has a distinguished pedigree. We are far, however, from 19th and early 20th century intuitionism(s) whereby a presumed intuitive faculty is said to have direct access to moral truth. What ...