The Power of Silence: Impunity and Accountability in Lebanon by Michelle Bouchebel explores the extent to which transitional justice mechanisms could help to strengthen accountability and the rule of law in Lebanon and ...

The Arab Spring swept in 2011 igniting a process of regime change after decades of dictatorship and authoritarian rule. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt were relatively swift and painless and did not require humanitarian ...

Policy-based computing is taking an increasing role in governing the systematic interaction among distributed cloud and Web services. XACML has been known as the de facto standard widely used by many vendors for specifying ...

There is a robust increase in the number of various kinds of non-state actors and a growing involvement of their role in many local and international key policy concerns that range from humanitarian and environmental fields, ...

This study had three purposes: to examine Marcia‟s Ego Identity Statuses in a sample of early and middle Lebanese adolescents, to investigate gender differences, and to explore the relationship between individuals‟ Ego ...

The increase in popularity of text messaging and the use of textism, the abbreviated form of words, in 12-to-13-year-old students has raised concerns among teachers, parents, and the media about possible consequences on ...

This study examines the attitudes of regular and special education teachers towards the inclusion of children with autism across four private inclusive schools in Mount Lebanon and Beirut. The study aims at revealing ...

Qatar‘s foreign policy has received increasing attention due to the small monarchy‘s huge resources, and the activism of its main decision-takers: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem. Before the Arab Spring ...

With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web comes the enormous increase in stored digital contents, which could challenge users to search and use the multimedia data efficiently. This work focuses on hastening ...

This study examined the variable “Anger” in youth in Kuwait and its relationship to “Social Competence”. It also investigated gender differences and types of schools differences (public versus private) in relation to these ...