This study is intended to extend our understanding of immigrant political integration by analyzing Yemeni immigrants' attitudes toward integration into North American society, exploring the case of Yemeni-Americans, a group reputedly resistant to integration, in both Dearborn an…
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The prevailing scholarship on the Syrian-Lebanese in Brazil argues that the economic success of these immigrants is mainly the product of merit and hard work—the tenet of exceptional social mobility thesis. This dissertation contends that a key missing aspect of the precept is t…
As post-colonial theory notes, women's lived-experiences, particularly women of the “third world,” have not been present in the narratives of nation-states. By listening to and reading stories of decolonization, narratives of legitimacy, and narratives of the inheritance of cult…
This study investigated relationships among the severity of symptoms of PTSD, emotional intelligence, and gender differences in refugee children from the Middle East after their exposure to war in their native countries (Iraq, Lebanon, or Palestine). Participants were 17 male an…
The purpose of this study was to explore the earliest influences on Lebanese professional women's Dreams (Levinson, 1978). A focus was placed on achieving a deeper understanding of the Dream's origins in childhood. There was an examination of how the Dream initially developed an…
Scope and method of study. The main purpose of this study was to develop a workforce education model for Lebanon's guest service agents' cluster. Guest service agents' jobs defined in this study were; concierge, front desk employee, reservation specialist, and first level manage…
Native flora in Lebanon is threatened by tourist and urban development, urban expansion in the mountainous areas, political instability, over-collection of medicinal and aromatic plants, lack of legislation prohibiting over-collection from the wild, overgrazing and forest fires.…
Drawing upon the emerging literature that examines differences in values about marriage, this study examined how broader cultural values of western societies, based in individualism, and eastern societies, based in collectivism, shape values about marriage. In comparing the mari…
The Fruits of Severance is an historical novel, narrated in the third person and from the point of view of a sole character, the female protagonist, Philomena Zaccaria. Conflicts have existed in the Middle East since the dawn of history. It is through the eyes of Philomena, a Ch…
This dissertation is a literary critique of select Lebanese theater, television, and film from the 1980s and 1990s (the Civil War and post-war periods) that deal with sectarianism and language. This is not a study of media. The dissertation shows that the fictional Lebanons, cre…
During the mass migration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries millions of immigrants arrived in the United States. Unlike earlier migrations, which mainly brought immigrants from northern and eastern Europe, many of these immigrants came from untraditional count…
This study utilizes cross-sectional data and the Life Stress Paradigm in order to investigate the relationship between recent life event stressors and current depressive symptomatology for a sample of Lebanese adults, aged 60 years and older, residing within three under-privileg…
The purpose of my research and development, not yet tested, is to offer a solution to the twofold problem that high-school level Arabic speaking Lebanese students are faced with: on the one hand, there is a motivation problem reading French as a second language and, on the other…
This research investigated the effects of using Level I Rational Number Project (RNP) Curriculum on the acquisition of basic fraction concepts by fifth grade students as contrasted with those using the traditional Lebanese curriculum. Additionally, the study examined the mathema…
Lebanese migration to Sierra Leone began around 1895 during the British colonial era. This migration is as old as many other migrations to the world and occurred during an earlier globalization era, but there is little mention of it in the literature. Is there an assumption that…
In Lebanon cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. Assisting people to live with cardiac illness is a problem needing attention. Literature demonstrated significant association between effective self-care practices and secondary prevention of c…
The purpose of this study was to uncover the lived experience of Lebanese oncology patients receiving palliative care. The study design was based on the Utrecht School of phenomenology based on the Dutch school of phenomenology. This study followed purposeful sampling in which t…
This research study explored the difference between subordinates' perceptions of their leaders' leadership style within the banking industry in Lebanon and the United States. This was done through exploring their differences toward the consideration and initiation structure dime…
The present study aims at understanding and explaining the gratification process associated to «caregiving» in Lebanese family caregivers of elderly relatives at home. This population, formed in majority of women, has been the subject of many North American studies which stresse…