This research focuses on building a dynamic reservoir model based on a 3D static model provided by Akakus Oil Operations company to study the performance of a multilayer oil reservoir named O-field located in the southeastern part of block NC-115 of Marzuq Basin in Libya. The 3D…
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THE ROLE AND USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN LIBYA ABSTRACT By Nadia Nsir, Ph.D. Washington State University November 2014 Chair: Joy L. Egbert This dissertation consists of two manuscripts to investigate the use of social media in Libya since the uprising in 2011. The first paper is an …
This dissertation explores the historical representation of the Italian nation in regard to the narration of the Libyan War and its causes and implications in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magaz…
In the first decade of their occupation of the former Ottoman territories of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in current-day Libya, the Italian colonial administration established a system of indirect rule in the Cyrenaican town of Ajedabiya under the leadership of Idris al-Sanusi, a …
This thesis seeks to find out how NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan have negatively affected relations with Russia. In order to achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework. The sc…
This dissertation contextualizes Roman sculpture within its local environment, giving particular attention to the honorific statue groups of the imperial family in the first and second centuries CE. Previous studies focus primarily on issues of style and typology, whereas this p…
This thesis investigates the conditions under which decisions for military intervention are constrained by public opinion. Prior studies have identified electoral cycles and legislative checks as potential constraints on foreign policy making, but the interaction of these constr…
Libya is in a state of transition following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. Because Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s dictatorship imposed structural violence, direct violence, and cultural violence, causing many injustices and human rights violations, as well as the violent nature of th…
This study presents the depositional facies, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and diagenetic evolution of the Middle-Late Triassic Al Aziziyah Formation, Jifarah Basin northwest Libya. Eight measured sections were sampled and analyzed. High-resolution stable carbon isoto…
The aim of this research is to expose the longue durée of the bilateral relations of Italy, Britain and to a lesser extent France, with Libya. The historical narrative presented, traces the interests and policies that have governed these bilateral relations back to the year Ital…
Background Newborn screening (NBS) is a public health program designed to identify infants with congenital disorders amenable to treatment. NBS is widespread in Canada and United States, but some countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Libya, remain witho…
Libyan herpetology weakened after mid-1930, and has only recently begun strengthening again. Because of this, there are no large scale references specific to Libya that allow researchers to quickly browse the species present and their distribution across the country. For this pu…
Today there exists a legal norm that declares the existence of a global responsibility to protect civilians from mass atrocities. Previous doctrines of non-intervention and permissibility were inadequate and demonstrated the need for a new outlook. From a commission proposal to …
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze conflictual and cooperative inter-state relations in North Africa. It investigates the domestic, regional and international causes of conflict between Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia (and the Western Sahara). It looks a…
This study examines two case studies involving the Federal Republic of Germany's foreign policymaking vis-a-vis the Middle East: the Rabta affair, in which the West German government was called to account for the illegal exports of German companies in helping Libya construct a c…
This doctoral dissertation constitutes an integrated geophysical investigation of the lithospheric structure in the region of Libya. It is separated into three sections, each of which will be submitted to different scientific journals for publication. In the first part of the st…
This dissertation compared the decisionmaking behind three military interventions during the 1980s: Grenada in October 1983 (Urgent Fury); Libya in April 1986 (El Dorado Canyon); and Panama in December 1989 (Just Cause). The author termed these actions "quick-strike" interventio…
The Lower Acacus Formation consists of fourteen deltaic packages which change laterally across the Hamada Basin, NW Libya. Southern fluvial-channel sandstones prograded northward into coastal-deltaic sandstones and siltstones, and eventually to offshore-marine sandstones and sha…
The Cretaceous Sidi as Sid Formation outcrops in the Jabal Nafusah Escarpment, northwest Libya. It is composed of two members; the lower Ain Tobi Member and the upper Yifran Member. The Yifran Member consists of marl, dolomitic limestone and gypsum. The Ain Tobi Member is compos…