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  • Qatar and Omnibalancing Escaping the Saudi Regional Hegemony 
    Bitar, Houda (Lebanese American University, 2020-06-01)
    Taking as its backdrop the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of economic sanctions on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies in June 2017, this thesis examines the sources of the turbulent relationship ...
  • Qatar's foreign policy between realism and idiosyncrasy. (c2014) 
    Mattar, Reine (Lebanese American University, 2015-02-10)
    Qatar‘s foreign policy has received increasing attention due to the small monarchy‘s huge resources, and the activism of its main decision-takers: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem. Before the Arab Spring ...
  • Query acceleration in multimedia database systems. (c2014) 
    Karaki, Rawa (Lebanese American University, 2015-02-10)
    With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web comes the enormous increase in stored digital contents, which could challenge users to search and use the multimedia data efficiently. This work focuses on hastening ...
  • Quick menu. (c1999) 
    Simonian, Raffi (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-06)
    System administrators have always dreamt of a menu system that allows them to quickly modify a menu, grant or revoke access permissions to different u se r s, and run UNIX administrative commands, without having to deal ...
  • The Race to Electric Vehicles 
    Saliba, Jerome (Lebanese American University, 2022-07-22)
    Over the past decade, electric vehicles have been growing in popularity. The number of electric vehicles on the roads increased from a few thousand in 2010 to more than 10 million in 2020.1 Electric vehicles have already ...
  • The radical pedagogy of community radio and the case of radio al-balad 92.4 fm 
    King, Gretchen (McGill University, 2023-03-03)
    Community radio remains an understudied form of media in the Arab region despite new interest in studying social change communications. Because theories of community media remain largely developed in Western contexts, the ...
  • Ramadan's Leaves through Dali's mirror of Narcissus. (c2011) 
    Abdulsater, Zoha (Lebanese American University, 2011-12-13)
    This research carries out an interdisciplinary approach to comparative analysis which not only transcends historical, linguistic, and cultural boundaries, but also explores distinct art forms—namely Salvador Dalí‘s painting ...
  • The rapid rise of the Islamic state in Syria. (c2016) 
    Assaker, Rana (Lebanese American University, 2016-12-08)
    This thesis discusses the factors that have led to the rapid rise of the Islamic State in Syria. Employing a case study methodology, it argues that the emergence and consolidation of the Islamic State in Syria are to be ...
  • A ratio Tauberian theorem 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N. (Amercian University of Beirut, 2018-04-24)
    Let f be a given function and Tf some integral transform of it. The question of deducing the asymptotic behavior of - from that of Tf is classical and has received much attention. More recently the question of deducing the ...
  • (Re)Negotiating Intimacy in Labor Migration Contexts Women Migrant Workers in Beirut 
    Alaedine, Rola (Lebanese American University, 2021-12-23)
    Migration studies generally tend to sideline the personal and the intimate in migrants’ trajectories. Analyses of labor migration are largely flawed by a focus on economic necessity and accounts on labor migrants are overly ...
  • Reaching for the star. (c2011) 
    Sitt, Sally B. (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-04)
    Astrocytomas are tumors occurring in young adulthood. Astrocytic tumors can be classified into four grades according to histologic features: grade I, grade II, grade III and grade IV. Malignant tumors, those of grade III ...
  • Reading & writing in literacy-based curricula. (c2004) 
    Joudi, Darine N. (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-06)
  • A reading kit for grade eight. (c2006) 
    Itani, Ghada Ahmad (Lebanese American University, 2011-07-27)
    This project provides a reading kit reflecting the curricular objectives of cycle III set by the National Center for Educational Research and Development (NCERD). It emphasizes the following curricular traditional (listening, ...
  • Reading readiness of kindergarten students in a Lebanese school. (c2017) 
    Bdeir, Maha F. (Lebanese American University, 2017-03-13)
    A growing body of research highlights the importance of the preschool period in preparing skilled readers. Phonological awareness is considered one of the key precursor skills to conventional literacy that develop during ...
  • Reading strategies in science literacy. (c2015) 
    Diab, Yasmine Zakaria (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    The present study examined the difference between two educational programs (i.e. Lebanese Baccalaureate and American programs) in the Lebanese system and how each program integrates reading literacy with the science ...
  • The reading-writing connection. (c2007) 
    Fakhreddine, Juheina Najib (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-26)
    The exigencies of writing at the secondary school level need immediate action plans to be treated before students end the secondary cycle to tum to college. The direct method that could be applied simultaneously with the ...
  • Realism and morality. (c2004) 
    Kanj, Vivian (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-17)
    Realism and morality are recognized as parallel forces that are in an eternal dilemma in international relations. Historically, the United States foreign policy was a reflection of this vicious circle. In the current ...
  • Realism explains the rise of ISIS and the response of the two super powers. (c2016) 
    Klait, Ibtissam (Lebanese American University, 2017-01-30)
    The rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a non- state actor, is explained through realism although realism does not have much to say about non- state actors and their terrorist acts. The rise of ISIS and ...
  • The Realism of Communitarians’ Clash in the Middle East 
    Ramadan, Hiba Zafer (Lebanese American University, 2021-04-27)
    This study examines the ‘clash of communitarians’ thesis in the Middle East and North Africa. At the same time, it explores political dynamics of nation-states’ foreign policy outlooks. This is done by focusing on the ...
  • A Realist Analysis of Saudi Foreign Policy in the 2011 Syrian War 
    El Assaad, Gheya (Lebanese American University, 2023-08-07)
    Realism emphasizes states’ pursuit of self-interest amidst an anarchic international environment where struggles for power are paramount. The 2011- Syrian war is one of the Middle East’s most protracted conflicts, becoming ...

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