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  • 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.
  • Cross-dressing in photographs of 1920s and 1930s Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon 
    Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2018-10-02)
    This issue will not be complete without the eclectic representation of women in the following intriguing photographs that I found while looking for photographs for this issue. All nine photographs are part of the Arab Image ...
  • Women and photography 
    Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2018-10-02)
    This special issue of al-Raida on Women and Photography addresses photography as a medium that challenges gender roles, positions, and attributes as seen in the mainstream media. It includes papers by contributors who ...
  • Apprehending the Creative Process through Drawing in the Foundation Design Studio 
    Akoury, Chahid (2018-09-04)
    One of the main goals of design education is to enhance and enable creative thinking. Therefore, effectively teaching visual representational and interpretational skills is vital for the communication and articulation of ...
  • Perceptive destabilizations 
    Akoury, Chahid (2018-09-04)
    Contemporary sensory reality has been dominated by the sole sense of vision. This has largely affected the design process and eventually the relationship between designer and the work. This dominance of the image creates ...
  • Territory, city and architecture 
    El-Daccache, Maroun (2017-06-14)
    It seems like all the architectural debates are finished as nobody cares for the “old” problems like people or lodgings. Architecture today means publicity and its beauty follows is the subject to the same conditions. The ...
  • Learning from Beirut 
    Haddad, Elie G. (2017-06-14)
    his 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 ...
  • Henry van de Velde on rational beauty, empathy and ornament 
    Haddad, Elie George (University of Pennsylvania, 2017-06-13)
    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 ...
  • The Mediterranean City Between Myth and Reality 
    Haddad, Elie; Daccache, Maroun; Romanos, Antoine; Mawlawi, Ziad; Awabdy, Rima (Lebanese American University, 2017-06-13)
  • Theoretical speculations and the design studio 
    Haddad, Elie G. (The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, 2017-06-13)
  • A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 
    Haddad, Elie G.; Rifkind, David (Ashgate, 2017-06-13)
  • On Henry van de Velde's Manuscript on Ornament 
    Haddad, Elie G. (2017-06-13)
  • In Nietzsche's Shadow 
    Haddad, Elie (2017-06-12)
    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 ...
  • Sustainability and Design Education Case Study 
    Khoury, Melissa Plourde; Khoury, Tarek E. (School of Art and design, Aalto University, 2017-06-05)
  • The Egg 
    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 ...
  • Across Disciplines 
    Khoury, Melissa Plourde; Khoury, Tarek E. (2017-06-02)
    The visual communication of word, meaning and content too often is overlooked in graphic design studies. Graphic design students commonly create designs in which content plays a secondary role while emphasis is placed upon ...
  • Cultural identity crisis within contemporary graphic design case study 
    Khoury, Melissa Plourde; Khoury, Tarek E. (2017-06-02)
    Visual representations of Lebanese culture are rich and diverse. Traditionally, Lebanese culture is a unique mixture of the East and West. However, Westernization jeopardizes this cultural identity in contemporary Lebanese ...
  • Writing & Research for Graphic Design within Undergraduate Studies 
    Khoury, Melissa Plourde; Khoury, Tarek E. (Korean Society of Design Science, 2017-06-02)
    Numerous questions arise from the topic of writing and research for graphic design. For example: Why do graphic designers often not learn to research and write for design until studying at the Masters or even the PhD level? ...
  • Modélisation des circulations transitoire et résiduelle : application à l'estuaire de la Casamance (Sénégal) 
    Lahoud, Antoine (Academie de Montpellier, Universite des Sciences et Techniques du Languedocc, 2017-06-01)
    Ce travail présente une mise au point de modèles d'environnement basés sur une procédure itérative qui évolue suivant quatre étapes interdépendantes : la récolte des données qui a fourni la base indispensable au choix des ...
  • Restoration of fragile remains of bridges in Lebanon 
    Lahoud, Antoine L. (Fundación El Legado Andalusí, 2017-06-01)
    Many bridges have been built in Lebanon, due to its geography of rivers and valleys. These bridges mostly belong to Roman, Mediaeval and Ottoman periods or to the French mandate. With modern urban development, new vacant ...

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