Publications

Publications

  1. Mageda A. A. Sharafeddin, Jad Raad, and Tareq Ayoub. 2025. “Detecting Irony in Arabic: From Emotion AI Recognition to Cognitive AI Functionality.” In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applied Network Technologies (ICMLANT), San Salvador, El Salvador: IEEE, 62–67. doi: 10.1109/ICMLANT63295.2024.00016
  2. Mariam Itani and Khadija Ramadan. 2025. “Enhancing Building Envelope Efficiency through CAHEP-PCM Integration: Mathematical Modeling and Theoretical Analysis.” In Sixth International Conference on Efficient Building Design, ASHRAE. doi: 10.63044/eb24ita2
  3. Noura Abbas, Laudy Chehade, Hawraa Tarhini, Zahi Abdul Sater, and Ali Shamseddine. 2025. “Trends and Gaps in Colorectal Cancer Screening Research in the Arab World: A 16-Year Bibliometric Analysis (2007–2023).” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22(2): 264. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22020264
  4. Kamel F. Bou-Hamdan, Faraz Sufyan, and Azza Hashim Abbas. 2025. “Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in the MENA Region: A Regional Review of Projects and Challenges.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. doi: 10.1007/s13369-025-09999-7
  5. Noura Abbas, Laudy Chehade, Zahi Abdul Sater, and Ali Shamseddine. 2025. “The Silent Burden of De Novo Metastatic Prostate Cancer in the Middle East: A Call for Region-Specific Screening Guidelines.” Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal 6(1): 4. doi: 10.3390/siuj6010004
  6. Khouloud Issa, Abbas Rammal, Rabih Assaf, and Ahmad Ghandour. 2025. “Supervised learning applied to electrocardiogram statistical features for the detection of premature ventricular contraction.” Research on Biomedical Engineering 41 (1), 15. doi: 10.1007/s42600-024-00399-8
  7. Diana Hadi and Mona Sheet. 2024. “Unraveling the Complexity of Geriatric Language Deterioration in Dementia: A Comprehensive Examination and Implications for Care.” Al-Manafez 48: 22-44. PDF
  8. Abdulrahman Alhajahjeh, Majedah Hmeidan, Ahmed A. Abdulelah, Israa Al-Nezaa, Faris Al-Abbadi, Ryan W. Dobbs, Zahi Abdul Sater, Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, David I. Lee, and Mohammed Shahait. 2024. “Factors Affecting the Non-Publication of Clinical Trials of Prevalent Urological Cancer.” World Journal of Urology 42(1):426. doi: 10.1007/s00345-024-05135-6
  9. Diana Hadi. 2024. “Leveraging Technology in the Educational Paradigms to Aid Dyslexic Learners.” Wameed Al-Fikr 22: 6-21. PDF
  10. Mohammad Rahal, Eng Shaza Soleiman, and Bassam Hussein. “Comprehensive Methodology for Landslide Risk Assessment Using Fuzzy Logic Systems: A Step-by-Step Approach.” PDF
  11. Mohammed Shahait, Sarah Ibrahim, Laith Baqain, and Zahi Abdul‐Sater. 2024. “Bibliometric Analysis of Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer Research.” BJUI Compass bco2.353. doi: 10.1002/bco2.353
  12. Tammam Youssef, Fouad Bitar, Hassanain Alogla, Maya El Khoury, Jihan Moukhaiber, Farah Alamin, Bassam AlHareth, Cristoveanu Catalin Gabriel, Rana Youssef, Labib Abouzahr, Zahi Abdul Sater, and Fadi Bitar. 2024. “Establishing a High-Quality Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program in Post-Conflict Regions: A Model for Limited Resource Countries.” Pediatric Cardiology. doi: 10.1007/s00246-023-03384-7
  13.  Fouad Bitar, Mariam Arabi, Ziad Bulbul, Georges Nemer, Yehya Jassar, Fadi F. Bitar, and Zahi Abdul Sater. 2024. “Congenital Heart Disease Research Landscape in the Arab World: A 25-Year Bibliometric Review.” Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 10:1332291. doi:  10.3389/fcvm.2023.1332291
  14. Marwan Tolba, Mac Skelton, Zahi Abdul Sater, Ibtihal Fadhil, Ali Al-Zahrani, Tezer Kutluk, Kamal Akbarov, Ali Taher, Richard Sullivan, and Layth Mula-Hussain. 2023. “Cancer Research in Vulnerable Populations: A Call for Collaboration and Sustainability From MENAT Countries.” JCO Global Oncology (9):e2300201. doi: 10.1200/GO.23.00201
  15. Diana Hadi, Aline El Jurdi, and Nisreen Alwan. 2023. “Selective Mutism: Unveiling the Masquerade of Its Reasons and Interventions.” Al-Hadatha 228: 169-183. PDF
  16. Diana Hadi. 2023. “The Underpinning Roadblocks of Autism and Language Learning.” Wameed Al-Fikr 18: 6-18. PDF
  17. Mac Skelton, Ahmed Khalid Al-Mash’hadani, Zahi Abdul-Sater, Mohammed Saleem, Saad Alsaad, Marwa Kahtan, Ahmed Hazim Al-Samarai, Ahmed Moyed Al-Bakir, and Layth Mula-Hussain. 2023. “War and Oncology: Cancer Care in Five Iraqi Provinces Impacted by the ISIL Conflict.” Frontiers in Oncology 13:1151242. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1151242
  18. Zahi Abdul Sater, Theresa Farhat, Mohamed N. Elsayed, Yara Youssef, Marium Husain, Malak Kaddoura, Lubna Jaber, Deborah Mukherji, and Ali Taher. 2023. “The State of Cancer Research in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Frontiers in Oncology 13:1083836. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1083836
  19. Mageda A. Sharafeddin, and Ahmad Samarji. 2023. “Facilitating Computing Education to Graduate Students in Journalism and Public Relations from Dewey’s Lens: Prototyping.” Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 15(5):1544–60. doi: 10.1108/JARHE-04-2022-0125
  20. Ahmad Samarji. 2023. “The “S” in “STEM”: education and policies amid and post-COVID-19”. Emerald Open Research, Vol. 1 No. 13. PDF
  21. Ghada Chehimi, and Mira M. Alameddine. 2022. “The Making of a 21st Century English Language Teacher during the Pandemic.” International Journal on Social and Education Sciences 4(1):101–20. doi: 10.46328/ijonses.297
  22. Hongjie Chen, Nahal Haddadi, Xiaofeng Zhu, Diana Hatoum, Size Chen, Najah T. Nassif, Yiguang Lin, and Eileen M. McGowan. 2022. “Expression Profile of Sphingosine Kinase 1 Isoforms in Human Cancer Tissues and Cells: Importance and Clinical Relevance of the Neglected 1b-Isoform.” Journal of Oncology 2022:2250407. doi: 10.1155/2022/2250407
  23. Samar Abdelhady, Hawraa Issa, Ohanes Ashekyan, Muhammad Ali Haidar, Oumaima Outani, Yasmine Samir, Eslam Belal, Zaynab Shakkour, Stefania Mondello, and Firas H. Kobeissy. 2022. “Brain Injury Biomarkers: Proteins and Autoantibodies Interplay.” Pp. 239–50 in Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-823347-4.00036-1
  24. Maha Tabet, Mohammad Amine Reslan, Muhammad Ali Haidar, Hawraa Issa, Maya El Dor, Reem Abedi, Leila Nasrallah, et al. 2022. “Drug Interventions and Stem Cells in Traumatic Brain Injury: Translation from Experimental Model to Bedside.” In Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury, Elsevier, 39–55. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-823347-4.00012-9
  25. Kawthar Dhayni, Kazem Zibara, Hawraa Issa, Saïd Kamel, and Youssef Bennis. 2022. “Targeting CXCR1 and CXCR2 Receptors in Cardiovascular Diseases.” Pharmacology & Therapeutics 237:108257. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2022.108257
  26. Nadine Al-Haj, Hawraa Issa, Ola El Zein, Stanley Ibeh, Mohammad Amine Reslan, Yara Yehya, Firas Kobeissy, Kazem Zibara, Ali H. Eid, and Abdullah Shaito. 2022. “Phytochemicals as Micronutrients: What Is Their Therapeutic Promise in the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury?” Pp. 245–76 in Role of Micronutrients in Brain Health, Nutritional Neurosciences, edited by W. Mohamed and T. Yamashita. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi:  10.1007/978-981-16-6467-0_14
  27. Lynn Kawtharany, Laurence Bessueille, Hawraa Issa, Eva Hamade, Kazem Zibara, and David Magne. 2022. “Inflammation and Microcalcification: A Never-Ending Vicious Cycle in Atherosclerosis?” Journal of Vascular Research 59(3):137–50. doi: 10.1159/000521161
  28. Mohammad Amine Reslan, Hawraa Issa, Nadine Al-Haj, Stanley Ibeh, Yara Yehya, Houssein Hajj Hassan, Firas Kobeissy, Ali H. Eid, Kazem Zibara, and Abdullah Shaito. 2022. “Phytochemicals as Micronutrients: What Is Their Therapeutic Promise in the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease?” Pp. 277–308 in Role of Micronutrients in Brain Health, Nutritional Neurosciences, edited by W. Mohamed and T. Yamashita. Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-6467-0_15
  29. Imad Zbib, Reem Ghaddar, Ahmad Samarji, and Marwan Wahbi. 2021. “Examining Country of Origin Effect among Lebanese Consumers: A Study in the Cosmetics Industry.” Journal of International Consumer Marketing 33(2):194–208. doi: 10.1080/08961530.2020.1740634
  30. Marilyne Daher, Talar Telvizian, Christelle Dagher, Zahi Abdul-Sater, Sarah Abdel Massih, Alissar EL Chediak, Maya Charafeddine, Mohammed Shahait, Raafat Alameddine, Sally Temraz, Fady Geara, Bassem Youssef, Albert El Hajj, Rami Nasr, Wassim Wazzan, Muhammad Bulbul, Raja Khauli, Ali Shamseddine, and Deborah Mukherji. 2021. “High Rates of Advanced Prostate Cancer in the Middle East: Analysis from a Tertiary Care Center.” Urology Annals 13(4):418. doi: 10.4103/UA.UA_47_20
  31. Dalia Ghaddar, Mariam Itani, Nesreen Ghaddar, Kamel Ghali, and Joseph Zeaiter. 2021. “Model-Based Adaptive Controller for Personalized Ventilation and Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Spaces.” Building Simulation 14(6):1757–71. doi: 10.1007/s12273-021-0783-x
  32. Mohamad El Loubani, Nesreen Ghaddar, Kamel Ghali, and Mariam Itani. 2021. “Hybrid Cooling System Integrating PCM-Desiccant Dehumidification and Personal Evaporative Cooling for Hot and Humid Climates.” Journal of Building Engineering 33:101580. doi: 10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101580
  33. Farah Mneimneh, Nesreen Ghaddar, Kamel Ghali, and Mariam Itani. 2021. “The Effectiveness of Evaporative Cooling Vest with Ventilation Fans on the Thermal State of Persons with Paraplegia during Exercise.” Building and Environment 206:108356. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108356
  34. Mariam Itani, Dalia Ghaddar, Nesreen Ghaddar, and Kamel Ghali. 2021. “Model-Based Multivariable Regression Model for Thermal Comfort in Naturally Ventilated Spaces with Personalized Ventilation.” Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14(1):78–93. doi: 10.1080/19401493.2020.1850865
  35. Hawraa Issa, Ali H. Eid, Bassam Berry, Vahideh Takhviji, Abbas Khosravi, Sarah Mantash, Rawan Nehme, Rawan Hallal, Hussein Karaki, Kawthar Dhayni, Wissam H. Faour, Firas Kobeissy, Ali Nehme, and Kazem Zibara. 2021. “Combination of Angiotensin (1-7) Agonists and Convalescent Plasma as a New Strategy to Overcome Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Inhibition for the Treatment of COVID-19.” Frontiers in Medicine 8:620990. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.620990
  36. Ahmad Samarji. 2021. “Transitioning from Physical Classroom to Distance Education during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Lebanese Case Study in Higher Education.” Pp. 101–14 in Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, edited by E. Sengupta and P. Blessinger. Emerald Publishing Limited. PDF
  37. Mariam Itani, Nesreen Ghaddar, Kamel Ghali, and Abdelaziz Laouadi. 2020. “Development of Heat Stress Charts for Older People under Indoor Environmental Conditions.” Energy and Buildings 224:110274. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110274
  38. Ahmad Samarji. 2020. “The PBL Approach in an EFL Setting: Maximizing Students’ Engagement and Humanizing Their Experiences.” Pp. 205–18 in Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, edited by E. Sengupta, P. Blessinger, and M. Makhanya. Emerald Publishing Limited. doi: 10.1108/S2055-364120200000027016
  39. Mohamad B. Zbib, Matthew Howard, Michael R. Maughan, Nicolas J. Briot, T. John Balk, and David F. Bahr. 2020. “Conformal Coating of Metallic Shells on Carbon Nanotube Turfs.” MRS Advances 5(64):e1. doi: 10.1557/adv.2018.524 
  40. Mohamed Mohsen, Mohamed Al Ansari, Ramzi Taha, Ahmed Senouci, and Ala AbuTaqa. 2020. “Optimum Dispersion Parameters of Carbon Nanotubes: Concrete Strength by Response Surface Methodologies.” Pp. 298–307 in Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction (CIC 2020). Qatar University Press. doi: 10.29117/cic.2020.0038
  41. Manar Riman. 2020. “Vanishing of the Brauer Group of a Del Pezzo Surface of Degree 4.” Journal of Number Theory 214:348–59. doi: 10.1016/j.jnt.2020.03.008
  42. Bipandeep Dhillon, Fatemah Aleithan, Zahi Abdul-Sater, and Ali A. Abdul-Sater. 2019. “The Evolving Role of TRAFs in Mediating Inflammatory Responses.” Frontiers in Immunology 10:104. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00104
  43. Fred Saleh, and Ghassan Mouhanna. 2019. “Specialized Rural Pain Clinics: Lessons for a Small Country like Lebanon.” Neurophysiology and Rehabilitation Fred-Saleh. doi: 10.33805/2641-8991.115
  44. Fred Saleh. 2019. “Integration of Basic Sciences in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula.” American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research 4(3):201–4. doi: 10.34297/AJBSR.2019.04.000798
  45. Ahmad Samarji. 2019. “An Overlooked Aspect of Internationalization: Power Blocs and the ‘Cultural Other’ in the Classroom.” Educational Considerations 45(1). doi: 10.4148/0146-9282.2169
  46. Wael Alnahhal, Ramzi Taha, Nasser Alnuaimi, and Abathar Al-Hamrani. 2019. “Properties of Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Made with Discarded Materials.” Magazine of Concrete Research 71(3):152–62. doi: 10.1680/jmacr.17.00293
  47. Mohamed O. Mohsen, Mohamed S. Al Ansari, Ramzi Taha, Nasser Al Nuaimi, and Ala Abu Taqa. 2019. “Carbon Nanotube Effect on the Ductility, Flexural Strength, and Permeability of Concrete.” Journal of Nanomaterials 2019:1–11. doi: 10.1155/2019%2F6490984
  48. Fred Saleh, and Nadia Ismail. 2018. “Forensic Nursing Education and Practice in Lebanon: Current Status and Future Perspectives.” Nursing and Health Care 80–83. PDF
  49. Fred Saleh. 2018. “Establishing a rural school of nursing in Lebanon: a practical model.” Nurs Health Care, 3, 72-5. PDF
  50. Ahmad Samarji. 2018. “Education Within the Middle East and North African Prisons: Challenges and Opportunities”. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2909-5.ch007
  51. Shadia J. Ikhmayies, and Mohamad B. Zbib. 2018. “Synthesis of ZnO Hexagonal Prisms on Aluminum Substrates by the Spray Pyrolysis Technique.” Pp. 177–86 in Transition Towards 100% Renewable Energy, Innovative Renewable Energy, edited by A. Sayigh. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69844-1_17
  52. Mohamad B. Zbib, Matthew Howard, Michael R. Maughan, Nicolas J. Briot, T. John Balk, and David F. Bahr. 2018. “The Mechanical Response of Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes Coated with Metallic Shells.” MRS Advances 3(45–46):2801–8. doi: 10.1557/adv.2018.562
  53. Dima Dabbous. 2018. “Reforming the broadcasting sector in the Southern Mediterranean: a critical overview”, MedMedia Closing Conference, Headquarters of the Arab States Broadcasting Union. PDF
  54. Shadia J. Ikhmayies, and Mohamad B. Zbib. 2017. “Spray Pyrolysis Synthesis of ZnO Micro/Nanorods on Glass Substrate.” Journal of Electronic Materials 46(10):5629–34. doi: 10.1007/s11664-017-5629-z
  55. Shadia J. Ikhmayies, and Mohamad B. Zbib. 2017. “Synthesis of ZnO Hexagonal Micro Discs on Glass Substrates Using the Spray Pyrolysis Technique.” Journal of Electronic Materials 46(7):3982–86. doi: 10.1007/s11664-017-5495-8
  56. Dima Dabbous. 2017. “Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws”, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Research on Islamic Feminism in the Arab World. PDF

 

 

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