This paper investigates the challenges of an airport that has to manage an overflow of passengers compared with the designing stage. This leads to a paradoxal situation: though the airport is newly built and looks modern, ...

Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is utilized in order to allow the system to respond changes with minimum or no impact to the overall system output. Implementing flexibility in the body shop plays a major role in achieving ...

Several Catholic schools have been shut down for good and several others are struggling to survive but they might just not, because they are facing a severe financial deficit and a strong decline in their revenues. This ...

Throughout human history, struggles over access and control of water resources have been a root cause of tension and armed conflict. In Middle Eastern scheming for power, water is viewed as a strategic resource, quickly ...

This paper investigates the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and gross domestic product in the Middle East and North Africa region using World Bank data covering the period 1980 to 2010 on the eve of the Arab ...

We examine the validity of the guns-versus-butter hypothesis in the pre-Arab Spring era. Using panel data from 1995 to 2011 – the eve of the Arab uprisings – we find no evidence that increased security needs as measured ...

This article examines the drivers of youth irregular migration in the Middle East and North Africa region. A multinomial logit model is implemented to test the effect of labor market and institutional characteristics on ...

The Syrian crisis that started in 2011 is considered by many to have affected negatively the Lebanese economy. A possible transmission channel from the crisis to the economy of Lebanon is tourism. This article investigates ...

The impact of performance appraisal satisfaction on employee attitudes and behavior is well established in the literature. Employees who are satisfied with performance appraisals at work are expected to be more satisfied ...