Helou, Joseph P.(Nova Science Publishers, 2024-04-25)
This chapter contributes to the literature on divided societies by examining why Lebanon’s sovereign debt crisis of 2020, with a sectarian political order, elite power sharing arrangements and fragmented state institutions ...
Helou, Joseph P.(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024-04-25)
This chapter seeks to investigate the relationship between the competing forces of the Syrian state, radical Islamist groups and foreign military intervention in contributing to areas of limited statehood, which, in turn, ...
This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony. It sheds light ...
This article employs Giddens’ theory of structuration to identify why the practices of powersharing among the political elite in the context of post-war settings can spawn inflection points that divert the political process ...
This article explores why Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) shifted from opposing the dominant political practices in the country after the 1975-90 civil war – bargaining, power-sharing, narrow parochial discourse, ...
This chapter contributes to an understanding of the role of Lebanese political elites in molding state institutions and distorting Lebanon’s public finances, which severely skew Lebanese citizens’ attitude toward informal ...
This paper explores why the production of communal fear via demographic and political-economic factors can explain group behavior (here the Maronites of Lebanon) in diverse ethnic, religious and sectarian plural societies ...
I flesh out an analysis of how Lebanese Zu'ama or political elite manipulate various aspects of politics in Lebanon to maintain a firm grip of the confessional communities they represent. The political order resulting from ...
The Lebanese economic crisis, which has been ongoing since 2020, has taken its toll on all Lebanese, including students of Lebanese American University (LAU). With an average tuition fee of 9,319 USD per semester, an ...
This study set out to examine which peer review, face-to-face given orally or online given in writing, is more effective in improving the overall argumentative writing achievement of English as a foreign language (EFL) ...
This study examined the effects of language learning strategies (LLS) and coded corrective feedback on reducing four types of lexical errors made by two student groups, one receiving teacher corrective feedback (TCF) and ...
We argue for a transformation in the current learning and literacy education of marginalized and nondominant groups of English- as- a Foreign Language (EFL) refugee learners in Lebanon. This paper describes the process of ...
Short-form videos are becoming a trend in today’s social media. A large number of tools provide users with the capability to edit and mix video clips with audio files to create a short-form video. A significant number of ...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is becoming the most dominant method for network management. By decoupling the control plane from the data plane, SDN provides a centralized view and more flexibility, scalability, and ...
The wide expansion of the Internet of Things is pushing the growth of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Secure data communication is vital to the success and stability of the IoV and ...
A Learning Management Systems (LMS) is a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational and training material. In a previous work, the authors proposed a framework for a future LMS ...
A Learning Management Systems (LMS) is a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational material. In a previous work, the authors proposed a framework for a future LMS enhanced by ...
During the last twenty years, the amount of stored digital data has witnessed an enormous growth. This data is usually divided by the scientific community into structured and unstructured data. Although unstructured data ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is an innovative technology that connects any physical object smartly to the Internet in order to exchange, store and process real-time data with its surrounding environment and people. ...