Arda Arsenian Ekmekji: An Armenian-Lebanese Academician Recounts

Mohamed Sharawy, B.D.S., Ph.D., An Accomplished International Scientist and Academician

jima.imana.org In this issue of JIMA, I am pleased to profile a dear friend and an accomplished international academician. Dr. Mohamed Sharawy was one of the handful of Muslims in Augusta, Georgia, in 1970, when he moved there. He was one of two Egyptian Americans and one of three foreign faculty members at the Medical College of Georgia at that time. Dr. Sharawy had a great influence on my dec...

An E-voting System for Lebanese Elections

This paper aims to present an electronic voting system (E-Voting), hopefully, to be applied to the Lebanese electoral system. This E-Voting system (E-VS) was designed for electorates through computers programmed with convivial Graphical User Interfaces. The complex treatments and features are achieved at the levels of applicative layer and database. Several security measures were integrated int...

Towards a Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement?

T urkish-Armenian relations have been deadlocked since Armenia gained its independence in 1991. The closed border and the lack of diplomatic ties cloud the future of bilateral relations as well as official and non-official efforts aimed at contributing to the process of normalization. However, Turkish-Armenian relations have been gaining momentum since 2002. The restoration of the Akhtamar Chur...

Armenian Information Technology Sector Industry Growth Model

An Overview of Academician Mihai Drăgănescu’s Conceptual Contributions to Information Science

Science, as well as other domains of the human culture and civilization, benefits in its becoming from two important categories of personalities, which I would generically call " creators " and " catalysts " , respectively. Creators, be they discoverers or innovators, bigger or lesser, are those who, by the power of thought, widen or deepen the knowledge, open new ways for investigation, produc...