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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Lebanese."”.
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Political integration of Hezbollah into Lebanese politics
… and social organization integrates itself into Lebanese society and polity. This thesis looks at how an Islamic organization, perceived as a "terrorist-group" in the mid-1980s, continues to transform itself and achieve success in being perceived as a legitimate political actor participating in …
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Impoliteness in British and Lebanese comic anthologies
… and functions of impoliteness in British and Lebanese comic anthologies, thereby also looking into potential country-specific practices and preferences. In doing so, it addresses a secondary aim of the research, which is to gauge the applicability of the adopted impoliteness model in a …
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Construction industry and its role in Lebanese economy
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1987.
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"I Want to be Free the Lebanese Way": An Interpretive Phenomenology Examination of Lebanese American Queer Youth's Experiences of Family Secrecy
… is available around the experiences of queer Lebanese American young adults, specifically around family secrecy around their sexuality. This gap in the marriage and family therapy research has significant implications, and erases the experiences of queer Arab young adults around disclosure of …
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Ending the War? The Lebanese Broadcasting Act of 1994.
Soon after the end of the Civil War, Lebanon witnessed the birth of its first audio-visual law: the Broadcasting Act of 1994. This Act was, according to the Document of National Reconciliation that ushered in the end of the Civil War, considered to be crucial in ending civil strife in Lebanon. The …
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Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War
… By focusing on the rich discursive space of the Lebanese left and their readings of their present and possible futures, I historicize now subsumed temporalities of revolution and a socialist future as vibrant concurrent histories that challenge the centrality of sectarianism in ordering Lebanese …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
The history of Lebanese cinema can be traced back to the late 1920s, but women film directors only became fully active from the mid-1970s, coinciding with the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The war gave rise to a new generation of filmmakers who wanted to document and portray the …
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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Australian-Lebanese in Melbourne
… community in Melbourne namely, the Australian-Lebanese. The health practices of this migrant group had never been studied and to date there is a paucity of literature regarding their health needs. This study provided information on the demographic and physical characteristics, life style …
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The Lebanese M Community: Identities Lost (or Found) in Translation
… have a vague memory of one of my teachers at my Lebanese Catholic School explaining what shādh meant. The word easily translated into English as deviant – my teacher had been clear: the norm is a straight line, and anything that deviates away from the line is a shudhūdh min al-mujtama’ (deviation …
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Publishing and marketing Lebanese children's books in the Arab world
… by different priorities. To understand marketing Lebanese children’s literature, given that Lebanon is regarded as the Arab World’s publishing capital exporting 90% of its books, the research employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data, provide a socio-cultural appreciation …
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The lived experience of Lebanese oncology patients receiving palliative care
… study was to uncover the lived experience of Lebanese oncology patients receiving palliative care. The study design was based on the Utrecht School of phenomenology based on the Dutch school of phenomenology. This study followed purposeful sampling in which ten participants six women and four …
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Investigating the Construct of Psychopathy in Lebanese and American Adults
… examines the construct of psychopathy among Lebanese adults, to assess its meaning, relevance, and utility among this population and compares the responses of Lebanese to American adults. The design of this study involves: 1) a comparison of Lebanese and American adults on measures of …
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Gendering Diaspora Across Generations: Lebanese Motherhood and Daughterhood Post-Emigration
… Arab feminism, seeking to explore how migrant Lebanese women embody, design, and understand home, examined through the lens of motherhood and daughterhood. The following opening questions guided the study: Which aspects of Lebanese culture do women preserve, adapt, and/or abandon once they …
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The Lebanese schism? : understanding localities of microcredit, poverty, and politics
… in the Middle East, I argue that the perceived Lebanese schism allows us to explore the role in which organizational diversity has enabled a reinterpretation and an opportunity to revisit microcredit as a poverty alleviation tool in the context of the Southern Suburbs of Beirut. The country of …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
… Rabih Mroué, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, Lebanese artists of the so-called jil al-harb, or the war generation, whose work is characterised by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, mostly, although not exclusively, in relation to the events and the continuing legacy of …
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Lebanese State Identity — The Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis on the Lebanese State Identity Through Discourse and Actions (2005-2020)
… a very peculiar form of political system. The Lebanese consociational system was created to preserve a fair representation of its various religious communities through a quota-based power-sharing model. Hence, factors that endanger the fragile sectarian demographic balance are perceived as a …
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The legality of Syrian intervention in the Lebanese civil war: 1975-1976
The Lebanese civil war is, undoubtedly, one of the most protracted civil wars that have ever been witnessed in the last two decades. Many interventions have occurred in Lebanon and most of them were the subject of discussion and legal analysis. Of all these intervention, the Syrian intervention has …
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The Lebanese Diaspora: An Exploration of Assimilation and Success in the United States
… America, Africa and Northern Europe. Today, the Lebanese diaspora is estimated to be around 14 million people. Many Lebanese entrepreneurs worldwide have proven to be very successful in a variety of contexts. However, while there is evidence suggesting that the Lebanese diaspora has been among …
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