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  • El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-09)
    This partly biographical narrative recounts its narrator’s first-hand, ground-zero experience of the Beirut Port explosion, one of the largest and most destructive in living memory. As the narrator recollects her mother’s ...
  • Adra, Kinda (Lebanese American University, 2016-05-13)
    Language in all its elements creates social bonds among people to nurture and nourish our minds and souls. Gossip is regularly identified as a negative element of speech, and people who gossip are considered empty headed ...
  • Dah, Mustafa A. (2016-11-25)
    This paper examines the relationship between the firm's governance structure and its value during different economic conditions. We show that both relative industry turnover and CEO entrenchment increase during economic ...
  • Fakhoury, Tamirace (2018-08-06)
    This article discusses how the Lebanese state has responded to displacement from Syria (2011–17), and how the resulting policy formulation processes and discourses have constructed the relationship between the hosting state ...
  • Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Kassem, Mohamad (2019-06-13)
    This article aims to examine the causal impact of the Arab Spring (AS) and government institutions on the finance–growth nexus. The empirical analysis is implemented for extensive firm-level panel data combined with national ...
  • Unknown author (Routledge, 2018-08-29)
  • Kadi, Randa El (Lebanese American University, 2010-10-05)
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the consequent ‘war on terror’ and the American and British invasion and occupation of Iraq, has magnified the threat posed by Muslim immigrant communities residing in Europe. ...
  • El Kadi, Randa (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-27)
    The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the consequent 'war on terror' and the American and British invasion and occupation of Iraq, has magnified the threat posed by Muslim immigrant communities residing in ...
  • Bleik, Said M. (Lebanese American University, 2011-05-12)
    Today's technologies have an economic and cultural impact on industries and businesses as well as on consumers. Tasks are being automated and data is being organized in standard formats. In other words, the evolution of ...
  • Karam, Gebran; Al-Ghazzi, Riad; Reilinger, Robert; McClusky, Simon; Vernant, Philippe; Lawrence, Shawn (2016-06-03)
    The GPS-derived velocity field (1988–2005) for the zone of interaction of the Arabian, African (Nubian, Somalian), and Eurasian plates indicates counterclockwise rotation of a broad area of the Earth's surface including ...
  • Karam, G.; Gomez, F.; Khawlie, M.; McClusky, S.; Reilinger, R.; Jaafar, R.; Tabet, C.; Khair, C.; Barazangi, M. (2018-01-29)
    Lebanon and southwestern Syria comprise a prominent, 200-km long restraining bend along the Dead Sea fault system (DSFS) - the continental transform boundary between the Arabian and Sinai plates. Within this "Lebanese ...
  • Bou Hassan, Hadi (Lebanese American University, 2013-10-28)
    Research about students’ understanding of energy in physics has revealed that students have ideas about the physical world that are different from those accepted in the scientific community. Nowadays, the effect of the ...
  • Noureddine, Rasha A. (2021-05-05)
    Globally, educational institutes of all levels face challenges in equitable education delivery due to the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forcing institutions online. A particular entity in the establishment of ...
  • Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Langston, Micheal A. (Springer, 2017-03-21)
    The relationship between graph coloring and the immersion order is considered. Vertex connectivity, edge connectivity and related issues are explored. These lead to the conjecture that, if G requires at least t colors, ...
  • Mansour, N.; Ponnusamy, R.; Choudhary, A.; Fox, G. C. (2016-01-25)
    Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the execution time of the application if the ...
  • Mansour, Nashat; Ponnusamy, A.; Choudhary, A.; Fox, G. C. (ACM, 2018-05-24)
    Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the execution time of the application if the ...
  • Makhoul, Racha (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-21)
    The current escalation in usage and complexity of modern digital systems, and the emergence of Very-Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has led to a huge design productivity gap in the chip design industry. It is well established ...
  • Sabbagh, Mona Majzoub (2015-02-26)
    While the graphic novel is becoming a well-established genre in the West with its own definitions, bi-cultural authors develop a new West Asian trajectory, both in form and subject, from their own displacements as well as ...
  • Al-Ayoubi, Nadine B. (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-23)
    For most of the last five decades, the United States has relied on the autocratic leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to help protect its vital interests in the neighborhood. However, on the morning of ...
  • El-Kassar, A. N.; Habre, S. S.; Awad, Y. A. (2016-12-08)
    Let T be a set of n distinct positive integers, x1, x2, ..., xn. The n×n matrix [T] having (xi , xj), the greatest common divisor of xi and xj , as its (i,j)-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix ...