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Climate and urban design of maritime public spaces in Mediterranean Arab cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The traditional urban fabrics in Arab cities along the Mediterranean coast offer an exceptional 'urban lab' to study climatic design, urban patterns and forms applied in public realms.
Suau, Cristian
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Fluid sovereignty: state-nature relations in the Hasbani Basin, southern Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The concept of fluid sovereignty denotes configurations of state authority in which flows of living and non-living things, within and across borders, render insecure claims of unconditional territorial control.
Khawlie, Mohamad, Mason, Michael
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Lessons from the Syria‐Hezbollah Criminal Syndicate, 1985–2005

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 98-119, Summer 2025.
Abstract Hezbollah, founded with the intention of destroying Israel, has long engaged in illicit efforts to amass resources the size of some states’ coffers. The Lebanese group's long‐running global criminal syndicate with the Assad regime, initially forged in the 1980s, more recently allowed it to fight for more than a decade in the Syrian conflict ...
Iftah Burman, Yehuda Blanga
wiley   +1 more source

The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 1041-1061, May 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I examine the spatial processes of class formation within informal urban spaces. To do so, I consider Karantina in the 1960s, an outgrowth of one of the oldest refugee camps in the world situated in northeastern Beirut, Lebanon.
Diala Lteif
wiley   +1 more source

Misrepresenting the Jordan River Basin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article advances a critique of the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia’s (ESCWA’s) representation of the Jordan River Basin, as contained in its recently published Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia.
Messerschmid, Clemens, Selby, Jan
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Lebanon Biogeography Outlined by Tree and Shrub Species Distribution Pattern

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.
Delineate the biogeographic structure of Lebanon based on native tree and shrub species distribution using ecological niche modeling and dissimilarity indices. ABSTRACT To delineate the biogeographic structure of Lebanon based on native tree and shrub species distribution using ecological niche modeling and dissimilarity indices.
Jean Stephan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The river, interstitial space of metropolisation : Nahr Beirut, between neoliberalization and forms of urban resistance

open access: yes, 2022
Cette thèse s'intéresse à la place du fleuve Nahr Beyrouth dans la ville de Beyrouth dont la métropolisation est qualifiée d'"indirecte'' et "inachevée'', et issue d'un régime politique et économique qu'est le néolibéralisme. Nahr Beyrouth, dans sa partie urbaine, illustre un fort contraste entre un fleuve a priori très délaissé, marginalisé dans l ...
openaire   +1 more source

Saudi Arabia and Iran: Spoilers or Enablers of Conflict?

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 38-53, Spring 2025.
Abstract Saudi Arabia and Iran played roles, inadvertently or not, in enabling the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel in October 2023. Before the war that ensued, Tehran aided and funded Hamas and its military wing, the Izz al‐Din al‐Qassam Brigades. Riyadh shunned the group by arresting and extraditing its members in a bid to join the US‐backed Abraham ...
Banafsheh Keynoush
wiley   +1 more source

The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan river I: Agreements impeding equitable transboundary water arrangements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article explores the ways in which two international water agreements on the Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River induce or impede transformation to equitable transboundary water arrangements.
Abdallah, Chadi   +5 more
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Challenges and Innovations in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pediatric Patients in Africa: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has proven to be a successful, developing improvement in surgical practice. Allowing surgeons to operate with minimal incisions, ensures the completion of such procedures with minimal damage to the patient and provides recovery in a shorter time.
Mert Uzun   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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