Beirut has successively been seen as the icon of the war-destroyed city, the paradigmatic case of “urbicide” and then as the symbol of a city rebirth through the reconstruction of its city center, praised in real estate journals and sold as a booming touristic destination to natives of the Arabo-Persian Gulf. Both images place Beirut as a city out of compare, out of norm, defining it as a uniqu...

political polemic and crisis in Beirut has been marked by various actions. The emergence of public aspirations led to tragedy. occurring bomb incident as a result building burning that contained 2,750 tons Ammonium Nitrate. It can be concrete evidence freedom is at stake. This tragedy caused 100 victims were died thousands people injured. phenomenon made many society from aroun the world contri...

Theories about dreams have shaped our thinking about mind-body unity and the influence of thought on the body. In this article, the authors review the sparse literature regarding the use of hypnosis with children's dreams and nightmares, summarize how hypnotically induced dreams have been used to resolve psychological symptoms, and note five themes in the literature worthy of further investigat...

Carine Sebaaly, Sahar Kassem, Elena Grishina , Hussein Kanaan, Alaa Sweidan, M. Said Chmit, Hussein M. Kanaan* Laboratory of Biotechnology of Natural Substances and Health Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, Laboratory of the Medical Analyses Center, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine STATE SCI...

1Department of Health Behaviour and Education; 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 3Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Received: 26/03/02; accepted: 16/03/03 ABSTRACT We studied patterns of antenatal care in lowversus high-risk pre...

Imagery-rehearsal therapy for chronic nightmares was assessed in a randomized, controlled study of sexual assault survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nightmares, sleep quality, and PTSD were assessed at baseline for 169 women, who were randomized into two groups: treatment (n = 87) and wait-list control (n = 82). Treatment consisted of two 3-hr sessions and one 1-hr session con...

Traumatic events are commonly re-experienced by trauma survivors through nightmares and flashbacks. The current study examined the relative sensitivity and specificity of these two forms of re-experiencing trauma in female survivors of rape. The frequency of nightmares and flashbacks were assessed using the Nightmare Frequency Questionnaire (NFQ) and the Flashback Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ),...