Diasporas are rarely analysed from a hospitality perspective. The paper reviews and expands on existent literature regarding the Lebanese Diaspora and focuses on the Lebanese Diaspora in London. The paper discusses the conditional and absolute notions of hospitality in relation to western and non-western cultural norms. Hospitality is thus examined from a cultural perspective in order to unders...

Overweight and obesity in Asian children are increasing at an alarming rate; therefore a better understanding of the relationship between BMI and percentage body fat (%BF) in this population is important. A total of 1039 children aged 8-10 years, encompassing a wide BMI range, were recruited from China, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Philippines and Thailand. Body composition was determined using the 2...

Interethnic marriage is a key field in ethnic relations study. A high level of interethnic marriage only occurs in a multiethnic society in which the political system, economic structure, laws, and cultural environment allow young people with different ethnic backgrounds to mingle with each other. This is why the interethnic marriage rate can be used to measure the degree of interactions among ...

This research examined the structure and correlates of an Armenian translation of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. 2003) among a community sample of ethnic Armenians residing in Lebanon. Four humor factors were found, as in the original Canadian samples: a‰liative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating humor. Scale reliabilities were generally acceptable, and inter-co...

In today’s multicultural society, there is a growing need to understand the detailed composition of different ethnic groups and the interactions between them. These large-scale group dynamics emerge from the aggregation of millions of ethnic self-identifications of individuals. Mateos et al. (2011) and others have begun to demonstrate the extent to which cultural, ethnic and linguistic (CEL) as...

Anxiety affects the culture of society so that content of each culture has permanent effects on behavior, feeling and psychological features of people. The purpose of this research was the comparison of early maladaptive schemas between two ethnic groups (i.e. Kurds and the Persians students) with high and low levels of trait anxiety. The research design was descriptive and ex post facto type. ...

Phytochemical Screening and Cytotoxic Activity of Two Extracts from Seeds of Lebanese Annona squamosa L Abbas Sabbah , Mohamad Nasser, Akram Hijazi, Hassan Rammal 1, , Ghassan Nasser 1 Basic Sciences department, Faculty of Agronomy, Lebanese University, Lebanon 2 Doctoral School of Science and Technology, Platform for Research and Analysis in Environmental Sciences (PRASE), Lebanese University,...