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  • Play and playgrounds for children of ages six to twelve. (c1961) 
    Chemor, Lamitta (Lebanese American University, 2012-08-23)
  • Podosome organization drives osteoclast-mediated bone resorption 
    Georgess, Dan; Machuca-Gayet, Irma; Blangy, Anne; Jurdic, Pierre (2019-04-04)
    Osteoclasts are the cells responsible for physiological bone resorption. A specific organization of their most prominent cytoskeletal structures, podosomes, is crucial for the degradation of mineralized bone matrix. Each ...
  • Podosome rings generate forces that drive saltatory osteoclast migration 
    Dan, Georgess; Hu, Shiqiong; Planus, Emmanuelle; Place, Christophe; Wang, Xianghui; Alibiges-Rizo, Corinne; Jurdic, Pierre; Geminard, Jean-Christophe; Mogliner, Alexander (2019-04-04)
    Podosomes are dynamic, actin-containing adhesion structures that collectively self-organize as rings. In this study, we first show by observing osteoclasts plated on bead-seeded soft substrates that podosome assemblies, ...
  • The polemics of idendity. (c2013) 
    Ghamlouche, Sarah (Lebanese American University, 2013-08-22)
    This thesis aims at understanding the means through which identity is constructed interns of religion and ethnicity. A survey of some of the most polemic primary sources produced during the period of the crusades is conducted ...
  • Policing in divided societies. (2013) 
    Yafawi, Amr Khaled (Lebanese American University, 2013-12-20)
    This thesis compares models of policing in divided societies as applied in Lebanon and Northern Ireland and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each. This is particularly significant due to the fact that both ...
  • Policy overcomes confessional hurdles: a policy strategy tackles challenges in the segmented society and state of Lebanon 
    Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-24)
    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 ...
  • Political and Socio-Cultural Factors in Foreign Language Education 
    Diab, Rula (2015-12-09)
    This paper examines the importance of political and sociocultural factors in foreign language education, focusing on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning in Lebanon. It begins with a historical review of foreign ...
  • Political change and the outbreak of civil war 
    Rowayheb, Marwan (2016-01-18)
    Although the Lebanon of post 2005 is similar in many respects to the Lebanon of the 1950s and 1970s, this article demonstrates that between 2005 and 2011 the country was in less danger of the outbreak of civil war than in ...
  • Political discourse analysis of news reports. (c2016) 
    Itani, Layla Yussef (Lebanese American University, 2016-09-27)
    Politics has proven itself to be a linguistic activity that utilizes emotional appeals that mold people’s beliefs and thoughts. This study is an exploration of the language of politics in two Lebanese newspapers - which ...
  • The political economic pre-requisites of the 2011 Arab uprising. (c2015) 
    Dagher, Khalil F. (Lebanese American University, 2015-08-21)
    Popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt launched the Arab Spring in 2011. Many experts have tried to explain the root causes of these uprisings and predict their democratization prospects. This thesis claims that the economic ...
  • The Political Economy of Patronage in Lebanon - The Case of the Council of Development and Reconstruction 
    Sweid, Karen (2021-05-31)
    The Council for Development and Reconstruction has been formed as an alternative to the ministry of general planning. The main purpose of its formation was avoiding bureaucratic ineffiencies and developing a rigid ...
  • The political economy of postwar reconstruction in Lebanon. (c2011) 
    Hariri, Hayat Mostafa (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Postwar reconstruction has attracted the attention of many scholars in the last few decades. Different theories offer alternative routes to postwar reconstruction. Some theories suggest that postwar reconstruction entails ...
  • Political identity formation in postwar Lebanon. (c2011) 
    Daoud, Mona (Lebanese American University, 2012-03-28)
    This thesis examines how the discourse of two political leaders in Lebanon, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hizbullah, a Shiite based party and Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces, a Marnoite ...
  • The political identity of south Lebanon from 1943 to 1978. (c2017) 
    Bassam, Abir (Lebanese American University, 2017-12-08)
    To understand the present political situation of the identity of South Lebanon, it is important to understand how this identity has developed since the formation of the Lebanese State. This thesis’s aim is to highlight a ...
  • The political ramifications of forced migration. (c2007) 
    Qumri, Samia (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-18)
    This thesis investigates the causes and consequences of Iraqi forced migration with which Jordan has had to contend since 1990. Extensive migratory waves flooded the Kingdom and are still expected to increase. The study ...
  • Political reading of the right to vote by the Lebanese abroad. (c2016) 
    Nasrallah, Christine G. (Lebanese American University, 2017-03-09)
    Human migration is the act of movement by people from their home land to a foreign state with the intention of settling in better living conditions. Lebanese migration started back in the 1845. Over the years Lebanese ...
  • ‘Political remittances’ 
    Tabar, Paul (2018-06-06)
    This paper examines a particular event that occurred in Australia within the Australian-Lebanese community: it is the political mobilisation of a substantial number of this community to participate in the general elections ...
  • Political risk & the banking sector in the Mena Region. (c2006) 
    Maalouf, Claude Nicholas EL- (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-26)
    The MENA region is attracting the attention of foreign investors. However, since violence and instability are the chief characteristics of this region, there are hurdles that prevent economic prosperity. In recent years, ...
  • The political situation of Iraqi Shiites. (c2005) 
    Hage Ali, Mohannad (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-22)
  • Political tension and existentialist angst in the drama of Harold Pinter and Isam Mahfuz. (c2012) 
    Roumani, Joelle (Lebanese American University, 2013-02-05)
    This research presents a detailed comparative analysis between Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter and ‘Isām Mahfūz’s The Dictator. It transcends linguistic, cultural and historical boundaries to explore the cross-resonance ...

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