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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 ...
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 ...
The Egg: Memory and Visual Structures Within Representations of an Iconic Lebanese Ruin

Khoury, Melissa Plourde (2017-06-02)

he Egg is an iconic ruin in Beirut. It was once the Beirut City Centre's cinema, designed by Lebanese modernist architect Joseph Philippe Karam in 1965. This structure's use is complex and ever changing. As such, the Egg ...
FMI Formation Microimager - High Resolution Solution Tool to Reveal Structural Complexity, Western Desert, Egypt

Haddad, Elie G.; Abuelfotoh, Ahmed M. (European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2010-03)

The Formation Micro Imager tool provides high resolution electrical images, which is capable of<br>detecting any features within the studied formation. In majority of cases, FMI can replace an expensive<br>coring cost ...
FMI Sedimentological Interpretation, Western Desert, Egypt - An Approach for High Resolution Facies Reservoir Anatomy

Haddad, Elie G.; Abdel Fattah, Mohsen (European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2010)

Bahariya Formation in Western Desert Egypt is one of the major complex oil bearing reservoirs in<br>Egypt. Many discoveries have revealed the high oil potentialities of this formation.<br>Detailed sedimentological ...
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 ...
Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications

Abdel Baki, Randa (2023-09-18)

Under the influence of globalization and multinational communication, the English language has become the steering script utilized in visual design. It has displaced other local languages and scripts and imposed a monolingual ...
Henry van de Velde on rational beauty, empathy and ornament: A chapter in the aesthetics of architectural modernity

Haddad, Elie George (University of Pennsylvania, 1998)

This thesis explores the different aspects of Henry van de Velde's theory, through the study of his published writings of the German Period, as well as the unpublished manuscript on ornament. Henry van de Velde's writings ...
Hilmi al-Tuni: evoking popular Arab culture

Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Khatt Books, 2018-10-02)

Hilmi Al-Tuni is Egyptian and one of the Arab World's most prominent and proficient illustrator and book designer. He has formed with his ubiquitous work the visual sensitivities of generations of Arab children and adults ...
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 ...
Immersive Experiences as the Condition of Possibility for Affective Spacing

Akoury, Chahid (2020-05-01)
In Nietzsche's Shadow: Henry van de Velde and the New Style in Architecture

Haddad, Elie (2005)

Henry van de Velde's intellectual relation to Nietzsche constitutes one of the interesting episodes in the early developments of Modernism in architecture. On the basic level, it opens the question of the influence of a ...
Influences and aspirations in the production of national projects in Lebanon and Kuwait

Mazzetto, Silvia; El-Khoury, Roula (2020-11-11)

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 ...
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. ...
Interview with Christina Rahme: a fashion photographer based in Beirut

Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2018-10-02)

Christina Rahme holds an M.A. in photography from Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK) and is currently teaching photography at LAU. Yasmine Nashabe Taan interviewed her for this issue of al-Raida.
Introduction: Modernism and Beyond: The Plurality of Contemporary Architectures

Haddad, Elie G.; Rifkind, David (Routledge, 2016)

Another issue of interest that Jameson raises is this continuing dialectic between “two moments” of Modernism, which alternate historically in all elds from architecture to music and painting, as in the early movement from ...
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 ...
Learning from Beirut: From Modernism to Contemporary Architecture

Haddad, Elie G. (2008-05-07)

This paper will discuss the developments in architecture in Lebanon in the second half of the Twentieth century. Lebanon presents one of the interesting ‘laboratories' of the different tendencies and movements of this ...
Lena Merhej’s Comics and the Shattering of Taboos Around Sexuality and Shame

Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2026-03-01)

This article examines a Lebanese female comic artist Lena Merhej’s graphic explorations of sexuality and shame. It aims at analyzing how she illustrates personal experiences to shatter taboos around gender and sexuality ...
Marie al-Khazen’s photographs of the 1920s and 1930s

Nachabe, Yasmine (McGill University, 2018-10-10)

Marie al-Khazen was a Lebanese photographer who lived between 1899 and 1983. Her photographs were mostly taken between the 1920s and 1930s in the North of Lebanon. They were compiled by Mohsen Yammine, a Lebanese collector ...

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