Beirut

Cities disfigured by war face not only the scares and memories of such violence among remaining populations, but the urban field itself serves as a constant concretized memory or evidence of atrocity. Urban design strategies are not simply attempts at representing modernity in t…

This dissertation aims at presenting a critical account of Modern Architecture in Lebanon in the 1950s and 1960s. Its challenge is to uncover sufficient material and insights that would allow further investigations in an insufficiently recorded field. While the intellectual acti…

For generations, Lebanon has remained in a state of turmoil. Political corruption, transnational influences, and sporadic ruptures dominate the country. Daily life has become a public ritual of disoriented memorialization that somehow remains masked and burrowed within each city…

At the intersection of East and West lays a conflicted social disjuncture presented physically in the disparate sectors of Beirut, Lebanon, and revealed in the city's divergent infrastructure. The crowded roadways saturated with pedestrians, taxicabs, minibuses, and other commut…

The concept to create an institution of higher education in Syria was an outcome of Protestant Evangelism. Missionary rhetoric emphasized spiritual conversions while the practical side of the missionary spirit recognized the need for ministry to physical well-being. Among the ea…

The primary purposes of this study are as follows: (1) to describe and profile the key leadership competency dimensions and associated key behaviors inherent to performance at each of the four levels: entry, supervisor, manager, and executive; (2) to measure the perceived import…

Beirut, the Lebanese capital, was for more than fifteen years a battlefield of conflicting interests that shifted between phases of destruction and phases of construction. Much of the research into the city's 1975–1990 war period has often focused on the spaces of divisions, hig…

This dissertation analyzes indigenous reactions to American Protestant mission schools between the 1830s and World War I. The main thesis is that American schools intended to create a new community favorable toward Protestantism and Western rationality, but that they failed in t…

This work is an ethnography of place and memory in post war Beirut. It examines the rebuilding project of downtown Beirut in terms of the competing discourses surrounding and driving the process. After the end of a long civil war, Beirut is rebuilding its decimated downtown, onc…

Starting with the premise that most students at the American University of Beirut (AUB) were able to fashion a relatively normal college experience during the war, this qualitative study explored the coping mechanisms that AUB students engaged in during stressful conditions and …

This dissertation is a comparative urban history of two provincial capitals and port cities in the Ottoman Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Salonica and Beirut. Specifically, it explores the complicated processes, struggles, and debates that emerg…

Beirut as a war torn city is going through a critical transformation and being stretched between two extremes: The Western/Mediterranean and The Arabian/Middle Eastern cultures presenting itself through multilayer of civilizations through history. It becomes necessary to underst…

Based upon twenty-two months of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, this dissertation describes how Islamist Shi'i Muslims engage with and deploy various discourses of the modern, presenting themselves as piously modern. In this community, spiritual progress…

Conducted within a feminist framework and guided by the principles of grounded theory methodology, this dissertation reports on the findings of a study of women's rape perceptions, undertaken in Beirut, Lebanon. The study relied on 38 interviews, participant observation, and a r…

During the second half of the twentieth century nationalist movements in the Middle East expressed the aspirations of colonized peoples. Revolutions for national liberation displaced communities and disrupted cosmopolitan patterns of co-existence. Nations imposed boundaries at o…

In this dissertation, I argue that relations of space and mobility play a critical role in the formation of Lebanese civic culture. By civic culture, I refer to ideas and practices having to do with the roles and actions of citizens, the state, and those inhabiting a particular …

My dissertation investigates the articulation and dissemination of radicalism in and between Beirut, Cairo and Alexandria in the late 19th and early 20th century. It argues that there existed a deep connection between the brand of radicalism that emerged in these cities, its dis…

This dissertation reads narrative published in the journals of 1870s and 1880s Beirut in the context of an emerging bourgeois readership, and argues that the significance of this archive to modern Arabic fiction has been neglected by critics Chapter One charts the emergence of a…