• Towards a “Glocal” Teaching of the History of Graphic Design 

  Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2024-11-28)

  This article examines the teaching of graphic design history in Lebanon and other Arab countries, with a focus on the incorporation of a local perspective in the curriculum. The study brings attention to overlooked elements ...
• The Agency of Discursive Design Exists in the Industrial 

  Dabaghi, Karma (Sapienza University of Rome, 2021)

  Can there be a closer collaboration between academic design and the industrial world? This paper outlines common territory between Discursive Design and industrial market forces and proposes a partnership for a more ...
• Artificial Intelligence and Learning of Students with Dyslexia: A Brief Review 

  Dabaghi, Karma; D’Urso, Stefano; Sciarrone, Filippo (Springer Nature, 2024-07-17)

  In the new global reality, distance learning has grown exponentially, and students with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), i.e., those with dyslexia, dysorthographia, or dyscalculia, struggle to learn. Because they have ...
• Diversity in Functionality, Materiality, and Style of Monochrome Seljuq Ceramics 

  El Sabeh, Nour (Lebanese American University, 2024-07-26)

  This thesis investigates the often-overlooked blue molded monochrome ceramics produced during the Seljuq period in Iran, spanning the mid-eleventh to late-twelfth centuries. While previous art historical studies have focused ...
• Nasser Majed: A Hidden Narrative of Calligraphic Transformation in the Second Half of the 20th Century 

  Ghannoum, Rima (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-20)

  Research on Arabic calligraphy during the 20th century has mainly focused on prominent calligraphers who have mastered the “art” of calligraphy. However, this focus overlooks the functions of calligraphy in the second ...
• The Gem of Tripoli, A Unique Mamluk Star Domical Pattern, where Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences Intersect 

  Shehabeddine, Rana (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-21)

  Hidden within the labyrinthine streets of Trāblus ash-Shām lies a forgotten monument from the Mamluk period, known as al-Mashhad, overlooked by travelers and erased from local memory. Despite its central location, this ...
• Thuluth Script on Metal Objects: An Integral Decorative Element in Mamluk Art During the Bahrī Period (1250- 1382) 

  Aboul-Naja, Iyad (Lebanese American University, 2024-05-21)

  This research examines the intricate Arabic calligraphy adorning opulent metallic objects dating back to the 14th-century Mamluk Bahrī period (1250-1382). Despite being overshadowed or assimilated within the broader ...
• 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 ...

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