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  • Between validation and emasculation 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-15)
    Unlike his more recent novels such as The Hakawati (2006) and An Unnecessary Woman (2013), which also lambast patriarchy, but not from a queer perspective, the early fiction of Rabih Alameddine, Lebanon's only openly gay ...
  • Rewriting home 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-15)
    This article examines the role that creative writing, specifically life writing or creative nonfiction, can play in subverting dominant discourse in a post-conflict environment such as post-postwar (post-2006) Lebanon. To ...
  • Archiving the political, narrating the personal 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-15)
    The year 2017 was the centenary of the controversial Balfour Declaration, and 2018 marked the seventieth year since the partitioning of Palestine and the historic Nakba prefiguring the creation of the State of Israel. These ...
  • Voices against disavowal, obscurantism, and exclusion 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-14)
    Prologue: Dissident Voices in a Bleak Political Landscape Life writing may have been acknowledged as an independent, if interdisciplinary, field in literary criticism in the North American and Anglophone European contexts ...
  • Writing (from) the rubble 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-14)
    This reflexive piece integrates its author’s experience of Beirut’s August 4, 2020 port explosion with those of other Lebanese citizens writing on the heels of the calamity. The overall narrative approximates a collective ...
  • Narratives of Older Age 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-11)
    Ageing in the Arab world remains to date an occluded topic. Overshadowed in government policy, media, and public opinion by often more pressing issues—unemployment, militancy, sectarianism, civil war, and revolution—ageing ...
  • Illness Writing and Revolution, Converging Narratives 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-11)
    For over four centuries, Lebanon was shackled to the Ottoman Empire, whose later decline was described by nineteenth-century commentators as the "Sick Man of Europe." This epithet is one of many disease metaphors that may ...
  • Female homosexuality and (non)performativity in the 21st-C. Syrian novel 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-11)
    Given the regression in empowering representations of queer women in the literary and, more generally, the cultural life of the modern Arab world, this article spotlights the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals ...
  • Queer bodies converse 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-11)
    This memoir comments, in verse, on its author’s experiences of teaching creative writing at an Anglophone university in Beirut, Lebanon. The poem develops the premise that the creative writing classroom, especially in ...
  • Autobiography matters 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-10)
    This critically informed autobiographical essay draws on its author’s experiences of youth bullying to frame its discussion of the role of patriarchy in spawning new generations of bullies in Lebanon, and in shaping the ...
  • Golgotha, Beirut 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-09)
    This partly biographical narrative recounts its narrator’s first-hand, ground-zero experience of the Beirut Port explosion, one of the largest and most destructive in living memory. As the narrator recollects her mother’s ...
  • Incestuous 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (2022-11-08)
    Childhood sexual abuse, including incest, is underreported and often unreported in the staunchly patriarchal Lebanese setting. The revolutionary spirit that accompanied the country’s October 2019 uprising instigated hope ...
  • The college writing toolkit 
    Pennington, Martha Carswell; Burton, Pauline (Equinox, 2022-08-22)
  • UVB damage onset and progression 24 h post exposure in human-derived skin cells 
    Khalil, Christian; Shebaby, Wassim (2022-07-29)
    The focus of this research was on UVB radiation (280–320 nm) responsible for cellular changes in skin of acute and chronically exposed individuals. This study investigated the acute cellular damages triggered by UVB exposure ...
  • Human skin explants an in vitro approach for assessing UVB induced damage 
    Khalil, Christian (2022-07-29)
    Lifestyle changes involving frequent outdoor activities are contributing to higher exposure to harmful ultraviolet light (UVB). The acute effects of UVB irradiation on human skin was evaluated in this study using freshly ...
  • In Vitro UVB induced cellular damage assessment using primary human skin derived fibroblasts 
    Khalil, Christian (2022-07-29)
    Nowadays there is a great deal of concern resulting from the impact of UV light on human skin especially when skin damage levels are predicted to rise due to ozone layer depletion. The skin acts as an important biological ...
  • Ochratoxin A in Rice Marketed in United Arab Emirates 
    Abou Ghaida, Alissar (Lebanese American University, 2022-05-14)
    Rice is one of the most consumed staple foods around the world. A. Circumdati, A. Nigri, P. verrucosum, and P. nordicum can contaminate rice in subtropical and tropical hot and humid climates, which leads to mycotoxins ...
  • EU Policies Towards Lebanon 
    Rania, Anna (Lebanese American University, 2020-05-19)
    Lebanon is considered a semi-rentier state, whose economy is highly dependent on rents, and in particular financial aid from international donors. In light of the significant financial contribution provided by the European ...
  • A nonsmooth maximum principle for a controlled nonconvex sweeping process 
    Zeidan, Vera; Nour, Chadi; Saoud, Hassan (2021-11-24)
    For an optimal control problem governed by a controlled nonconvex sweeping process, we provide, using an exponential penalization technique, existence of solution and nonsmooth necessary conditions in the form of the ...
  • A Nonlinear ϕ0-Convexity Result for the Bilateral Minimal Time Function 
    Chamoun, Samara; Nour, Chadi (2021-11-23)
    For a nonlinear control system, we derive a ϕ0-convexity result for the epigraph of the bilateral minimal time function. This extends the main result in a previous publication of the second author [Proximal subdifferential ...

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