• Lebanon's Political Economy of Informality: Elites, Citizens and the State Shape Money(s) during the Sovereign Debt Crisis 

  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 ...
• Fluid concepts and understandings redefined : States, porous borders and transnational militant actors in Syria 

  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, ...
• Activism, Change and Sectarianism in the Free Patriotic Movement in Lebanon 

  Helou, Joseph P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-04-25)

  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 ...
• Lost in the Transitions of Lebanon’s Second Republic: The Political Economy of (Un)governable Institutions, Practices and Crises 

  Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-25)

  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 ...
• Party Practices in the Context of Lebanon’s Sectarian Political System: Explaining the Unachieved Goals of the Free Patriotic Movement 

  Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-25)

  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, ...
• State collusion or erosion during a sovereign debt crisis: market dynamics spawn informal practices in Lebanon 

  Helou, Joseph P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-04-25)

  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 ...
• Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society: Communal Fear Spawns Everyday Practices and Coping Mechanisms among the Maronites of Lebanon 

  Helou, Joseph P.; Mollica, Marcello (2024-04-25)

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• Effect of online peer review versus face-to-Face peer review on argumentative writing achievement of EFL learners 

  Awada, Ghada M.; Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi (2024-04-22)

  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) ...
• Effect of Language Learning Strategies and Teacher versus Peer Feedback on Reducing Lexical Errors of University Learners 

  Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi; Awada, Ghada M. (2024-04-22)

  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 ...
• Using Third Space and Literature Circles (TSLC) as transformative pedagogy for marginalized EFL learners 

  Awada, Ghada; Ghaith, Ghazi; Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi (2024-04-22)

  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 ...
• Rihani's universal spirituality 

  Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi (Notre Dame University Press, 2024-04-22)
• A Model for the Automatic Mixing of Multiple Audio and Video Clips 

  Hedna, Mohamed Rissal; Djemmal, Younes; Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  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 ...
• Utilizing Roadside Units and Software Defined Networking to Route Packets Efficiently in Internet of Vehicles 

  Mershad, Khaleel; Said, Bilal (IEEE, 2024-03-08)

  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 ...
• A Blockchain Model for Secure Communications in Internet of Vehicles 

  Mershad, Khaleel; Said, Bilal (IEEE, 2024-03-08)

  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 ...
• Using Internet of Things to Enhance Remote Experiments in Learning Management Systems 

  Mershad, Khaleel; Hamieh, Ali (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  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 ...
• Using Internet of Things for Automatic Student Assessment during Laboratory Experiments 

  Mershad, Khaleel; Damaj, Abdulhadi; Hamieh, Ali (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  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 ...
• MQL: Mixed Query Language for Querying MySQL and HBase Databases 

  Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  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 ...
• Using Internet of Things in a Learning Management System for Campus Access Control 

  Wakim, Pilar; Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  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. ...
• Approving Updates in Collaborative Databases 

  Mershad, Khaleel; Malluhi, Qutaibah M.; Ouzzani, Mourad; Tang, Mingjie; Aref, Walid G. (IEEE, 2024-03-07)

  Data curation activities in collaborative databases mandate that collaborators interact until they converge and agree on the content of their data. Typically, updates by a member of the collaboration are made visible to ...

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