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Letter From Beirut. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
It has been raining all week, persistent drizzle unlike the brief downpours that are more typical of Beirut. The city is slumbering. El-Zein am staying with his parents. His father goes out less often. His mother is snuggled under the blankets. She hopes
El-Zein, Abbas
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The reconstructions of Beirut [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Texte écrit en 2004, aujourd'hui largement dépassé par les événements politiques au Liban. Un post-script accompagne donc le texte.This text was written in april 2004 and it is widely outdated today because of the political turmoil in Lebanon.
Nasr, Joe, Verdeil, Éric
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Future workplace reimagination: A multiscenario analysis on entrepreneurial small and medium internationalisers

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper aims to encounter the scholarly demand for comprehensive identification and investigation of the factors that highlight the sense of the “workplace of the future.” Besides, this study sheds in‐depth qualitative and quantitative insights into analysing such drivers in international entrepreneurial small and medium enterprises of ...
Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-Traumatic Cities: The Sense of Inclusiveness and the Impact of Universal Design, Beirut from 1960 until 2024

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
The aim of this study is to treat a significant gap found in Beirut in 2024: enhancing its inhabitants’ sense of inclusiveness in its public spaces. One effective potential approach posited to achieve this aim is the implementation of Universal Design ...
Maria A. El Helou
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Observations of ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2020 Beirut explosion by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and ground-based ionosondes [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales Geophysicae
A major explosion that released a significant amount of energy into the atmosphere occurred in Beirut on 4 August 2020. The energy released may have reached the upper atmosphere and generated some traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), which can ...
R. Pradipta, P.-C. Lai
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Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of a residential building energy consumption as “base model” in Tripoli, Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The interest in energy performance of buildings in Lebanon has increased in the last few years. Indeed, many organizations are evaluating the commercial buildings’ energy performance in order to increase the commercial sector energy efficiency.
Yathreb, S.
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of Pharmacogenetics to Individualize Treatment Regimens for Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, 2020
Dimitri Maamari1 ,* Habib El-Khoury1 ,* Omran Saifi,1 Samar A Muwakkit,2 Nathalie K Zgheib3 1Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 2Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical ...
Maamari D   +4 more
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A Literature Review of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Used Among Diabetes Mellitus Patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires regular and sustainable health management that involves proper treatment. Some diabetic patients use CAM, as well as conventional medicine, to maintain their health and control their blood sugar.
Agil, M. (Mangestuti)   +4 more
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