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Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016 The first Miss Lebanon-America, Rosemary Hakim, landed at Beirut Airport in July 1955 to start a public diplomacy tour. As an American beauty queen from Detroit visiting Lebanon, her parents' homeland, she was greeted enthusiastically by the local press ...
Martina Koegeler-Abdi
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From the Port City of Beirut to Beirut Central District
Spool, 2021 The repeated destructions and reconstructions of Beirut have been widely acknowledged and conveyed from one generation to the next through different narratives, anecdotes, literature, and popular cultural productions. This paper describes the historical
Roula El Khoury, Paola Ardizzola
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Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels [PDF]
, 2017 I argue that young Lebanese novelists like Sahar Mandour and Hilal Chouman mobilize the ordinary as a way to 'write out' of the literary legacy of war and trauma writing that have characterized Lebanese fiction, without denying or suppressing Lebanon's ...
Ghenwa Hayek
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Possible Overestimation of Nitrogen Dioxide Outgassing during the Beirut 2020 Explosion
Remote Sensing, 2022 On 4 August 2020, a strong explosion occurred near the Beirut seaport, Lebanon and killed more than 200 people and damaged numerous buildings in the vicinity. As Amonium Nitrate (AN) caused the explosion, many studies claimed the release of large amounts
Ashraf Farahat +3 more
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The Concept of ‘Nature’ in Peripatetic Islamic Philosophers [PDF]
, 2018 In this study, lexical and terminological meanings of the term “nature” were analyzed and some Peripatetical Islamic philosophers’ opinions about this term were included.
Adıgüzel, Nuri
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Rigid and soft modularity: the case of a Beiruti shoreline
Vitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and SustainabilityThis paper explores spatial systems of modularity on the shoreline of Ein el Mrayseh located in Beirut. The modular systems are studied from a contextual lens while observing different modular interventions as design strategies on this shoreline. The Ein
Roula El-Khoury, Leyla El Sayed Hussein
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Al-Wa‘d as Muhallil of Multi Contract (Ambiguity of Applying Al-Wa'd in Modern Transaction) [PDF]
, 2016 Wa'd (the unilateral promise) is an alternative for separate multi contract in one transaction and ribâ that are prohibited with Islamic law. The application of this promise faces difficulty because of difference of principle between unilateral promise ...
Maksum, M. (Muhammad)
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In_BoIt all started with the plastic chair, it is often found in Beirut’s urban settings without ever really being questioned. Inside the house, it’s an object you sit on. On the street, it prohibits parking.
Sama Beydoun
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Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2019 How does the municipal platform Beirut Madinati challenge relations of subordination through its nuanced facilitation of radical democratization processes in Beirut and beyond?
Bahar Mahzari
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Josef Fares’ Zozo as accented cinema [PDF]
, 2016 In 2005, the Lebanese-Swedish filmmaker Josef Fares, who had attained recognition in Sweden through the immigrant comedies Jalla! Jalla! (2000) and Kopps (2003), presented his third feature film and first drama, Zozo, inspired by Fares’s own migration to
Alexander, Elizabeth Lindsay
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