• AI4Architect: An Intelligent Help System to Support Students in the Design Domain 

  Abrusci, Luca; Dabaghi, Karma; D’Urso, Stefano; Sciarrone, Filippo (Springer, 2024-03-18)

  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, 2024-03-18)

  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, 2024-03-18)

  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 (2024-03-18)

  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 

  Nachabe Taan, Yasmine (2023-10-30)

  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 ...
• A Preliminary Catalogue of the Collection of Islamic Art 

  Lawand, Dana (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-01)

  The Collection of Islamic art held at the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia features no academic museum catalogue for the permanent collection. After researching a selection ...
• Intelligent Bilateral Client Selection in Federated Learning Using Game Theory 

  Wehbi, Osama (Lebanese American University, 2022-08-18)

  Federated Learning (FL) is a novel distributed privacy-preserving learning paradigm, which enables the collaboration among several participants (e.g., Internet of Things devices) for the training of machine learning models. ...
• The Effects of Guided Reading on Independent Reading and Reading Fluency in Primary Grades 

  Chamli, Yasmine (Lebanese American University, 2022-03-30)

  Multiple changes have been implemented in reading instructions in schools and educators and researchers constantly look for teaching strategies that would optimize their students’ reading. According to the International ...
• Visual thinking 

  Srouji, Hanibal Charles (2022-08-11)

  In Art Education, reading and understanding artworks and designs through a direct process of structural analysis improve visual thinking and performance, especially at the foundation level. This paper examines ways in which ...
• Public Baths Built in the Urban Centers of Syria during the Mamluk Period 

  Hamasni, Noura (Lebanese American University, 2022-04-28)

  Baths stood as one of the most significant public institutions found in Syria during the Islamic period. It was commonly known that baths structure grew from simple Roman and Byzantine models, yet they matured the most ...
• A Methodology of teaching fundamentals of art and design 

  Srouji, Hanibal (2022-08-11)

  The focus of this paper is to present a methodology of teaching fundamentals of Art & Design course base on analysis of artworks, mainly paintings, aimed at supporting art & design teaching practice at the foundation year ...
• The Paintings of al-Āthār al-Bāqiya of al-Bīrūnī 

  Jaber, Shady (Lebanese American University, 2021-05-26)

  Painting in Islamic art witnessed a major development in the aftermath of the Mongol conquest in the middle of the thirteenth century. A new style matured toward the end of the fourteenth century after passing through a ...
• The Surface Decoration of an Andalusian Prayer Hall in the Madrasa al-Yusufia 

  Kaouk, Abir (Lebanese American University, 2021-06-02)

  This thesis discusses the architecture decoration of the prayer of the madrasa al-Yusufia, the first madrasa in Granada, specifically the plasterwork. The madrasa was constructed under the Nasrid Sultan Yusuf I in 1394 by ...
• Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait 

  Mazzetto, Silvia; El-Khoury, Roula (2020-12-08)

  Purpose By looking at a selection of iconic modern projects designed by or commissioned to the prominent but not well-examined architect Sami Abdul Baki both in Lebanon and Kuwait during his most productive years in the ...

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