• The Mosques of Beirut in the Late 19th Century: 1850-1914 

  Mehio, Yasmine (Lebanese American University, 2023-12-22)

  This thesis is a historical and architectural investigation of the fourteen mosques built in Beirut between 1850 and 1914 when the city underwent a drastic change that altered its identity, role, and position in the region. ...
• The Craft of Interiors 

  Hijazi, Farah Ahmad (Lebanese American University, 2024-01-03)

  This study examines interior scenes in the celebrated Safavid Shahnameh of 1525 produced for Shah Tahmasp, highlighting their contribution as a unique category within architectural representations in Persian art. It ...
• The Arab Garçonne: being simultaneously modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt 

  Lewis, Reina; Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Bloomsbury Pub., 2021-06-03)
• Negotiating an entry to modernity through Marie al-Khazen's photographs (1920–30) 

  Gorman, Anthony; Irving, Sarah (I.B. Tauris, 2020-11-26)
• Reading Marie al-Khazen's photographs : gender, photography, mandate Lebanon 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020-11-26)

  The Lebanese photographer Marie al-Khazen seized every opportunity to use her camera during the years that she was active between 1920 and 1940. She not only documented her travels around tourist sites in Lebanon but also ...
• Blogging in Times of War: The July 2006 War in Lebanon and Mazen Kerbaj Imaging the Unimaginable 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Rutgers University Press, 2019-12-31)

  “The word/image problem is ‘inside’ the problem of the image, and vice versa … the word as image, image as word; the word as limit for the image, and vice versa.”¹ According to W. J. T. Mitchell, during situations of trauma, ...
• Reversing the Domestic Gaze: Chaza Charafeddine’s Maidames Exhibition in Beirut 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2020-03-01)

  Lebanese human rights activists see the Kafala system as a staggering social problem, which many have likened to a system of slavery. Currently supported by the Ministry of Labor, migrant workers are required to have a ...
• Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2019-11-01)

  In this evocative and well-crafted monograph, Marie Grace Brown recounts a history of Sudan with women’s bodies and dress as her record. The title of the book, Khartoum at Night, is taken from the name of a popular 1950s ...
• Performing different lives in Chaza Charafeddine's series of Portraits 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2019-01-29)

  An ongoing system of slavery supported by the Ministry of Labor in Lebanon is seen by human rights activists as a widespread staggering social issue that leaves a growing community of female migrant-domestic-workers in ...
• AI4Architect: An Intelligent Help System to Support Students in the Design Domain 

  Abrusci, Luca; Dabaghi, Karma; D’Urso, Stefano; Sciarrone, Filippo (Springer, 2023-09-01)

  Chatbots are important tools for improving learning by assisting students in their daily learning activities. In recent years, Deep Learning techniques have made it possible to train chatbots in increasingly comprehensive ...
• Blended Learning in the Foundational Design Studio 

  Dabaghi, Karma; Abou Arbid, Silia (Springer, 2022-11-23)

  Based on our experience of teaching the first-year Foundation studio online in an architecture program, we highlight the benefits of Blended Learning that incorporates strategic scheduling of physical and virtual delivery ...
• Beyond design thinking and into speculative futures in legal design 

  Dabaghi, Karma (Design Research Society, 2022-06-25)

  The Legal Design movement has succeeded in proposing change to communities through collaboration between the legal and design professions. As a result, new kinds of empathetic solutions have been introduced where the citizen ...
• Designerly resistance: Professional object design in support of Lebanon’s street protests 

  Dabaghi, Karma (2024-03-06)

  Design activism theory calls on designers to take responsibility for using their design skills to make real social change though influencing the mindset of their audience. This paper discusses the specific case of architect ...
• The image as a site of transgression: the case of Beirut counter-visuality since October 2019 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2023-10-13)

  On 17 October 2019 in Beirut, a Lebanese state bodyguard confronted by demonstrators opened fire when a female protestor hit him with a side kick. Another protestor recorded this moment on his mobile phone. A single frame ...
• The Representations on the Ayyubid Gilded and Enameled Glass Beakers 

  Richani, Nadine (Lebanese American University, 2023-03-09)

  The Ayyubid gilded and enameled glass flourished and developed during the thirteenth century in Syria. The Ayyubid beakers were particularly distinctive in their decorative technique of gilding and colored enameling, and ...
• The Architectural Decoration Under the Early Ghaznavids (997-1041 A.D.) 

  Chebat, Annabelle (Lebanese American University, 2023-03-09)

  Architectural decoration of the early Ghaznavids in the late tenth-early eleventh century was often approached in a set of disparate elements and fields because of the scarcity of its remaining monuments and objects. Art ...
• Study Of Seljuq Textile Patterns 

  Al Sayegh, Samah (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-16)

  The Seljuqs lived a luxurious life reflected in their art and how they dressed. They built a great Empire from Mesopotamia to Iran from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. The Seljuqs art held a harmonical balance ...
• Narrative Scenes on Medieval Metalwork 

  Hariz, Mira (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-16)

  The Seljuqs are a tribe from Oguz origins who came into Central Asia from the Eurasian Steppe1. The Turkic dynasty ruled over the area from 1040 to 11942. They were known for their warfare skills, and eventually their rule ...
• The Architectural Patronage of Ḍayfah Khātūn 

  Aridi, Julia (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-16)

  This thesis will conduct an analysis of the architectural patronage of Ḍayfah Khātūn, the queen regent of Aleppo between the years 1236 and 1243 C.E. It studies the architecture commissioned by her in light of the social ...
• The Early Representation of Nature in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century in the Islamic Manuscripts of the Central Islamic Lands 

  El Balaa, Hala (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-16)

  The early representation of nature in the Islamic manuscripts in the period before the Mongol invasion has been often overlooked. This paper studies the early representation of nature in the late twelfth and early thirteenth ...

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