Muslim immigrants’ adaptation to Western values has been a concern by different US governments. Their religious culture and the relationship of their country of origin with the United States have racialized them as a flux of un-assimilating underclass who are resistant to the We…
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My dissertation employs Armenian media sources in Lebanon to track the shifting dynamics of internally and externally constructed identifications of the Armenians in Lebanon from 1946-1958. I describe and analyze the debates that informed evolving conceptions of individual and c…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
This thesis aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between the city and civil conflict and violence. The thesis is building on the explanation that urbanisation and cities are at the heart of societal transformation as complex forms of social life and not as previ…
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…
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…
Refugees form a growing and complex concern for countries around the world particularly as their numbers and status remain liminal for decades creating destabilizing conditions within their host countries. This dissertation sought to uncover the ways in which policies towards re…
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the human geography of queer identity constructions and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations in the Lebanese capital Beirut. While I situate the formations of socially ma…
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…
In geography, "Landscape and Memory" studies focus on the politicized relationship between place and history, referring to this as the "politics of memory." These studies frequently over-privilege two specific foci: nationalism and formal institutions, a focus which excludes the…
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…
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…