scholarly journals Letters From Beirut

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura U. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Small Country ◽  
International Media ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
The City ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

In summer 2006 I returned to Lebanon for a third time. I had lived in Beirut for almost a year in 2002–2003, during which time I fell in love with the city, as so many people do—the generosity, resilience and joie de vivre of so many Lebanese people, the lively artistic scene, the intensity with which so many historical and international forces cross this small country. I built strong friendships then. I returned in 2004, and again in June 2006, this time to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut. On 14 July, in response to Hizballah’s action of taking two Israeli soldiers hostage and shooting across the Lebanese–Israeli border, Israel began an intense bombardment of Lebanese infrastructure, starting with the airport, as well as places where Hizballah supporters lived. A privileged outsider waiting to be evacuated, I was also helpless, afraid, and furious at the pro-Israeli tone of the international media. So I wrote daily letters to family, friends, and a growing email list of interested people. This is an edited version.

Public installations or how to reclaim our rights as citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Rana Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Places ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the importance of reclaiming our rights as citizens and our public spaces by documenting two different public installations/performances that took place in Beirut. The first took place in Spring 2018 and was organized by BePublic Lab at the American University of Beirut, and the second was the Architectural Association Visiting School that took place in Beirut in Summer 2019. Both installations led to a series of interventions on the stretch between Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, an area that has been witnessing gentrification in recent years. Both projects aim to trigger political engagement and raise public awareness in the face of the lack of public space, especially for the youth, in a city that is gradually moving towards a near total privatization of its public places. They emerged as a response to the sociopolitical strategies of depriving the citizens of their basic needs by privatizing what was once everyone’s. This article argues that urban interventions are an opportunity to address sociopolitical issues through spatial and temporal public installations. These installations, tailored to a human scale and anchored in the city as both art and architecture, reflect on the power of public interventions as urban catalytic tactics that engage with the people and challenge the blasé attitude of the citizens, pushing them to claim their rights to the city.

Radiology of terror injuries: the American University of Beirut Medical Center experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice C. Haddad ◽  
Nabil J. Khoury ◽  
Mukbil H. Hourani
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut

Career Guidance Center-American University of Beirut

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fawzi Hajj ◽  
Nazli Hamadeh
Keyword(s):  
Career Guidance ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut

scholarly journals SUMMIT (Serially Unified Multicenter Multiple Sclerosis Investigation): creating a repository of deeply phenotyped contemporary multiple sclerosis cohorts

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1485-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riley Bove ◽  
Tanuja Chitnis ◽  
Bruce AC Cree ◽  
Mar Tintoré ◽  
Yvonne Naegelin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Clinically Isolated Syndrome ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Longitudinal Investigation ◽  
American Academic

Background: There is a pressing need for robust longitudinal cohort studies in the modern treatment era of multiple sclerosis. Objective: Build a multiple sclerosis (MS) cohort repository to capture the variability of disability accumulation, as well as provide the depth of characterization (clinical, radiologic, genetic, biospecimens) required to adequately model and ultimately predict a patient’s course. Methods: Serially Unified Multicenter Multiple Sclerosis Investigation (SUMMIT) is an international multi-center, prospectively enrolled cohort with over a decade of comprehensive follow-up on more than 1000 patients from two large North American academic MS Centers (Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Comprehensive Longitudinal Investigation of Multiple Sclerosis at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (CLIMB; BWH)) and University of California, San Francisco (Expression/genomics, Proteomics, Imaging, and Clinical (EPIC))). It is bringing online more than 2500 patients from additional international MS Centers (Basel (Universitätsspital Basel (UHB)), VU University Medical Center MS Center Amsterdam (MSCA), Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia-Vall d’Hebron Hospital (Barcelona clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) cohort), and American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC-Multiple Sclerosis Interdisciplinary Research (AMIR)). Results and conclusion: We provide evidence for harmonization of two of the initial cohorts in terms of the characterization of demographics, disease, and treatment-related variables; demonstrate several proof-of-principle analyses examining genetic and radiologic predictors of disease progression; and discuss the steps involved in expanding SUMMIT into a repository accessible to the broader scientific community.

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