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  • A “Hollywood” Fancy 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In an “Interview” with Michael Bacos on March 24, 2002, the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury was asked an interesting question: since Lebanese writers no longer have the benefit of a major event, the civil war, to inspire ...
  • Elderly Women 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Given that the year 1999 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year for Older Persons with the theme Towards a Society for all Ages,' the File for this issue of Al-Raida is devoted to elderly women. ...
  • Laure Moghaizel 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Many of us will always remember Laure Moghaizel's funeral , and the sight of her coffin carried over the shoulders of women into Sayyidat al-Mukhallis Church in Beirut, an unprecedented though very telling act that sums ...
  • Abir Hamdar, The Female Suffering Body 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • What About Masculinity? 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Scholarly attention to gender issues in the Middle East has been focused almost exclusively on a quest to understand femininity. There are as yet no significant studies that make Muslim men visible as gendered subjects, ...
  • Lebanese Women and Literature 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Since we are dealing with texts written by women, the question that comes to mind is whether or not there is a unique or particular way in which women inscribe representation. My examination of texts written by women as ...
  • Lebanese Masculinities 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Dominant discourses surrounding gender tend to promote the view that the human race is naturally divided into male and female, where masculinity is fixed, stable and timeless, and where the natural difference between men ...
  • Towards on demand road condition monitoring using mobile phone sensing as a service 
    Mourad, Azzam; AlOrabi, Wael AlRahal; Abdul Rahman, Sawsan; El Barachi, May; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    With the increased need for mobility and the overcrowding of cities, the area of Intelligent Transportation aims at improving the efficiency, safety, and productivity of transportation systems by relying on communication ...
  • "Many Ghosts To Fight, Many Prejudices To Overcome" 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    When asked by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World to write an introductory article (on the short stories written by Lebanese women since 1960) to a "Bibliography of Lebanese Woman's Writing," I did not ...
  • Women's Centers in the Arab World 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The idea of a Raida issue on women centers in the Arab world has been on our minds for a long time. The reason for this is because we are very much aware of the pioneering role that these centers have played to enhance the ...
  • Learning English 
    Aghacy, Samira; EI-Daif, Rachid; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Learning English By Rachid EI-Daif - Beirut: AI-Nahar, 1998
  • Arab Women and the Medea 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Despite changes emerging in contemporary society regarding women's role and contributions, the images of women represented in the media have not reflected these changes sufficiently enough. Women have generally been presented ...
  • "On the Death of my Dear Friend Nada Adib Haddad" 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    She's dead, dead, and all the city, her city, weeps for her.
  • Julinda Abu Nasr 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    When asked by the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World to write a tribute to Julinda Abu Nasr on the occasion of her retirement in October, 1997, my mind went back to the short period of time I worked with her ...
  • Nawal El Saadawi 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    No Arab Woman inspires as much emotion as Nawal El-Saadawi. No woman in the Middle East has been the subject of more polemic. Certainly, no Arab woman s pen has violated as many sacred enclosures as that of Nawal El-Saadawi. ...
  • Abstracts of Three Introductory Studies to Bibliography of Works Written by Women Since 1960 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This study deals with the short story as a genre that has attracted a surprisingly large number of women writers since the 1960's. Even though women writers wrote without strong orientations and direction, the stories, on ...
  • On Violations 
    Aghacy, Samira; SAS; 198629510; English; saghacy@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 18, 1979. Although eleven Arab countries have ratified the ...
  • Parameterized Algorithms for Finding Small Independent Dominating Sets in Planar Graphs 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Fernau, Henning; SAS; 200302941; Computer Science and Mathematics; faisal.abukhzam@lau.edu.lb
  • On the parameterized complexity of dynamic problems 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Egan, Judith; Fellows, Michael R.; Rosamond, Frances A.; Shaw, Peter; SAS; 200302941; Computer Science and Mathematics; faisal.abukhzam@lau.edu.lb
    In a dynamic version of a (base) problem X it is assumed that some solution to an instance of X is no longer feasible due to changes made to the original instance, and it is required that a new feasible solution be obtained ...
  • Enumerating minimal dominating sets in chordal graphs 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Heggernes, Pinar; SAS; 200302941; Computer Science and Mathematics; faisal.abukhzam@lau.edu.lb
    The maximum number of minimal dominating sets in a chordal graph on n vertices is known to be at most 1.6181n. However, no example of a chordal graph with more than 1.4422n minimal dominating sets is known. In this paper, ...

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