96 research outputs found
Simulation of clogging in thin tubes concentation, electric and pH effects in a 1D precipitation pulse system - by Rabih Mohammed Makki
No full textThesis (M.S.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Chemistry, 2006.;"Advisor: Dr. Rabih Sultan, Professor, Chemistry--Member of Committee: Dr. Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman, Professor, Geology--Member of Committee: Dr. Mazen Al-Ghoul, Associate Professor,Bibliography: leaves 85-90.The author studied the dynamics of a precipitate deposition pulse in a thin, lon g tube connecting two reservoir sinks of co-precipitates. The chosen co-precipit ate ions are calcium ions (Ca2+) and carbonate ions thus provoking the depositi on of the sp
Dissimilation : overdetermination of postcolonial memory in Rabih Mroué’s oeuvre
No full textIn the article Dissimilation. Overdetermination of Postcolonial Memory in Rabih Mroué’s Oeuvre Arkadiusz Półtorak discusses three works by Rabih Mroué: the photo-collage series Diary of a Leap Year and the performances Three Posters (2000) and So Little Time (2017). The author scrutinizes Mroué’s references to Lebanon’s modern history and - drawing upon a cultural analysis of the chosen works - proves that instrumentalization of collective memory discourses is one of the pivotal themes in the artist’s oeuvre. The author posits that Rabih Mroué reveals the arbitrary quality of the past’s representations through defamiliarization (ostranenie), and that his method bears an affinity to Derrida’s notions of deconstruction and decolonization
Negotiating the distance exile, homosexuality and identity in the writings of Rabih Alameddine - by Heather Leigh McCaw
No full textThesis (M.A)--Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB, 2003;"Advisor: Dr. Syrine Hout, Associate Professor, English.--Member of Committee: Dr. Sirene Harb, Assistant Professor, English.--Member of Committee: Dr. Nadia El-Cheikh, Associate ProfessoBibliography: leaves 83-88.In the writings of the Lebanese-American author, Rabih Alameddine, male homosexu ality acts in a variety of ways to amplify, multiply and, conversely, to facilit ate the process of geographical exile while constituting a form of exile in itse lf. Exile,
Transnationality, Mobile Identity, and Cultural Dislocation in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine (2002)
No full textInspired by diasporic philosophy, conception, and avidity, Anglophone diasporic authors—such as Rabih Alameddine, a prolific Arab American author recognized for his bold yet creative narratives—have foregrounded heterogeneity, post-nationality, and cross-pollination, as approaches to contest essentialist national identifications and reductionist ethnic ideologies. Equally, diaspora literary criticism emphasizes the importance of border crossings and transnational movements, exemplified in diasporic narratives, prompting a re-evaluation of understandings and mindsets. Drawing on this theoretical premise, this article explores themes of traveling identity and transnational belonging, by meticulously analyzing instances from Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine (2002). It also unearths personal and cultural dislocation embodied in the protagonist’s disjointed life narrative, the lack of a central plot, and the uncertainty of claiming an irrevocable belief in belonging to a fixed abode. It concludes that the approach of belonging, the novel advocates, aligns with the postmodernist diasporic view, based on revisiting outdated assumptions of cultural identity and welcoming, instead, hybridity and post-ethnicity, which complicates the fixity of home and the pre-givenness of identity
The thousand and one tries: Storytelling as an art of failure in Rabih Alameddine’s Fiction
No full textThe paper discusses experimental fiction of Rabih Alameddine, an American writer of Lebanese origin, whose literary pursuits subvert Orientalist discourse based on the East/West dichotomy by focusing on the commonalities of the two. The recurring motif of searching for one’s identity (while being trapped in-between two mutually distant and at the same time similar worlds) is reflected in the subversion of the traditional understanding of the narrative which is destined to a constant failure. Alameddine’s storytelling is, in reality, a “story-trying.“ By employing multiple narrators, intertwining plots, genres and languages, the author is striving hard to tell “hisstory” about American homophobia, Lebanese sectarianism as well as the physical and psychological outcomes of war - a story which turns up to be a narration of the thousand and one failed beginnings
Global impact of the new European and American hypertension guidelines: A perspective from Lebanon
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Historicizing the Arab apocalypse with Walter Benjamin : Etel Adnan’s “Master of the eclipse” and Rabih Alameddine’s The angel of history
No full textThesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of English, 2018. Advisor : Dr. Syrine Hout, Professor, English ; Members of Committee : Dr. Sirene Harb, Associate Professor, English ; Dr. Sami Khatib, Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Training Group Cultures of Critique , Leuphana Universitat Luneburg.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-87)In 2009 the prominent Lebanese American painter, poet, and author Etel Adnan published a book of short stories whose title story, “Master of the Eclipse” focuses on the life of Iraqi poet Buland al-Haydari and his interest in angels. In the story, Adnan situates this interest in relation to the Marxist German dialectician Walter Benjamin’s famous allegory from his theses “On the Concept of History” (1940), i.e., the angel of history. Recently, in 2016, another prominent Lebanese American author, Rabih Alameddine, published a novel that also revolves around the life of a poet, and which bears the title The Angel of History. Both Alameddine and Adnan have been recognized as offering complex literary presentations of the Lebanese civil war in their previous work by scholars such as Syrine Hout and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi. Hout and Mejcher-Atassi also link these authors to the problem of narrating the unnarrateable, a conundrum that has been related to post-war Lebanon by Saree Makdisi and Sune Haugbolle. This project extends this investigation of narrative experimentation in the Lebanese context by asking: How can we understand the angel in the context of Benjamin’s philosophical work in order to better interpret Adnan’s and Alameddine’s literary re-glossings of said angel? What narrative mode surfaces in the confluence of post-war Lebanese themes about remembrance and Benjamin’s materialist historiographical vision for using the past as a tool to combat danger in the present? Highlighting Benjamin’s 6th, 9th, and 17th theses from “On the Concept of History,” this research shows that Adnan and Alameddine are confronting images from the past constructively in order to combat the personal and poetic dangers of silence, depression, and despair during an ongoing historical moment of loss and destruction in the Arab world. Within the frames of philosophical and literary-generic explication with Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, close readings of these tw
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