This research presents the problem of Arabic illustrated picture books in the Lebanese market that need to be enhanced in relation to the design and illustration aspects for children aged five to seven. The aim of this thesis is to increase readership and learning in the Arabic language among children in Lebanon and guide illustrators in enhancing the quality of their picture book illustrations. Several aspects appropriate for the development of picture book illustration guidelines for children were reviewed including communication through visual language, the contemporary approach of including ...

One of the most vital rights to the human race is education, especially in a school setting. Disruptive behaviors in the classroom can be an obstacle in front of this right. Here comes the importance of managing classroom behavior to provide the best education to students. Moreover, focusing on these behaviors can help the student in question develop many of his cognitive and social-emotional abilities. A technique that proves beneficial in this regard involves giving the child the motivation needed to facilitate his adaptation and development. One effective approach consists in individualizing ...

This research studies the budget shift from traditional media to social media in advertising campaigns in Lebanon. The objective of this thesis is to highlight the impact of social media on its target audience and compare it to the traditional media’s effect while taking into consideration percentage of reach, cost and interaction. In addition, the literature review covered four studies created by different researchers, (1) the new recipe in marketing strategy, (2) “Happies” campaign on social media, (3) social media marketing: the evaluation study in the wellness industry, and (4) social media ...

The Grid initiative provides an infrastructure for distributed computation among widely distributed high-performance computers. This will allow for exchanging and processing very large amounts of data. There are a huge number of applications that are geographically distributed such as multi-point radio facility for astrophysics, space physics, atmospheric physics, and radio research, utilizing very high performance Grid Computing. It is expected that similar applications to become important in commercial settings, initially for scientific and technical computing applications and then for commercial ...

The World Wide Web is considered by far to be a simple and universal standard for exchanging information. This information that started to be manually composed and human readable, needed to grow more to reach dynamic composition and machine readability. Static web documents starved for a light breeze to release it from data and presentation mixture and lift it to a higher level of data representation and organization. XML "the extensible markup language'' as a standard of data representation on the web offered flexibility and simplicity in representing self describing electronic documents. This ...

This thesis will discuss the difficulties related to the translation of jokes from English to Arabic, the cultural elements of the two languages, and how translators translate jokes from English into Arabic. I will also discuss the cultural aspects, with a study on translation theory. It also talks about literary translation, the translation of English jokes into Arabic, epic translation fails, and the Arabic culture. Moreover, this thesis explains the challenges of translating jokes, the cultural aspects of translating jokes, the cultural component of joke translation, and the difficulty of ...

This study presents and analyzes the political and legal aspects of the violations committed by Israel regarding the Palestinians’ right to water. The study introduces the geography of Palestine and its water sources; tackles the historical background underlying the value and significance of water in religious and Zionist thought; assesses the political impact of the recognition of Palestine as a nonmember observer state in the United Nations on Palestinian water rights; evaluates the legal dimensions of the Israeli violations of the Palestinian people's right to water resources starting ...

This chapter analyzes the contributions of the Taufer led ‘Radical Reformation’ to Muslim-Christian dialogue in the past and assess whether this historical example of “loving your neighbor as yourself,” and more pointedly “loving your enemy” and “turning the other check,” can play a role in the current situation in the Middle East. Dealing specifically with the former Benedictine monk and German Reformation leader Michael Sattler, it juxtaposes the Schwertler (sword-bearing) and the Stäbler (staff-bearing) responses to the existential threats emanating from the imminent Ottoman conquest and ...

The objective of this study is to create an understanding of the importance of using Twitter in Lebanese retail companies and how it directly affects the customers’ buying decision. The aim is to define the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of Twitter that differentiate it from traditional marketing communication channels (TV. Press Ads, Billboards…), and from other Social Media tools (Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram…). It is also about opportunities and challenges Twitter induces for communication. The paper explores the use of Twitter in communicating with current and potential ...

I have read in Aidoo’s Dilemma of a Ghost that it is sometimes assumed by the west that Africans were incapable of coherent reasoning. With this ambiguous implication, one is forced to conclude that, this meant that African ethnicities and their visual art designs lacked the matter and the form which made the other groups of mankind supposedly think more logically. I intend to dispel such myths as far as Acholi of Uganda are concerned by introducing a peak look through the designs of living expressed in the Acholi ethnicity. I hope, through this little work that scholars of other academic ...