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  • The urban hub 
    Chamoun, Rachid G. (Union Institute & University, 2018-10-08)
    Beirut as a war torn city is going through a critical transformation and being stretched between two extremes: The Western /Mediterranean and The Arabian /Middle Eastern cultures presenting itself through multilayer of ...
  • Refracted Gazes: A Woman Photographer during Mandate Lebanon 
    Nachabe, Yasmine (2018-10-02)
    The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the French Mandate created many conflicts and much debate in the Middle East region. The paper will attempt to answer the following questions: How were these conflicts ...
  • An Alternative Representation of Femininity in 1920s Lebanon: Through the Mise-en-Abîme of a Masculine Space 
    Nachabe, Yasmine (2018-10-02)
    In the 1920s, during the early French mandate in Lebanon (1920-1943), a period of major social, political and economic changes and a rising women’s movement in Syria and Lebanon, a young woman in her mid-twenties was ...
  • 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 ...
  • Abdulkader Arnaout : designing as visual poetry : a pioneer of graphic design in Syria 
    Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Khatt Books, 2018-10-02)
    Abdulkader Arnaout is a graphic designer and a pioneer of graphic design in Syria. He has was one of the first graphic design practitioners, and was renown in his native Syria as a modernist designer and artist. Arnaout ...
  • The naked blogger of Cairo: creative insurgency in the Arab world 
    Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (2018-10-02)
  • 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: 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Theoretical speculations and the design studio 
    Haddad, Elie G. (CSAAR, 2006)
  • A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture 
    Haddad, Elie G.; Rifkind, David; Laurence, Peter L. (Ashgate Publishing, 2014-03-28)
    This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a ...
  • On Henry van de Velde's Manuscript on Ornament 
    Haddad, Elie G. (2003-03-01)
    This article discusses Henry van de Velde's unpublished Manuscript on Ornament, which I have reassembled from various fragments in his archives. 1 Henry van de Velde is known principally for his role in the development ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sustainability and Design Education: Case Study: Lebanon 
    Khoury, Melissa Plourde; Khoury, Tarek E. (School of Art and design, Aalto University, 2017-06-05)
    After twenty years of civil war and continued political and economical turmoil, concern for ecological issues is not a priority to most Lebanese. Lebanese students in higher education design programs are typically not even ...
  • 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 ...

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