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Internet of Things from Hype to Reality

The Road to Digitization

By: Ammar Rayes,Samer Salam

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Internet of Things from Hype to Reality

The Road to Digitization

By: Ammar Rayes,Samer Salam

This revised textbook presents updated material on its core content: an end-to-end IoT architecture that is comprised of devices, network, compute, storage, platform, applications along with management and security components. As with the second edition, it is organized into six main parts: an IoT reference model; fog computing and the drivers; IoT management and applications; smart services in IoT; IoT standards; and case studies. This edition’s features include overhaul of the IoT Protocols (Chapter 5) to include an expanded treatment of low-power wide area networks including narrow band IoT (NB-IoT) protocol, updated IoT platforms and capabilities (Chapter 7) to include comparison of commercially available platforms (e.g. AWS IoT Platform, Google Cloud IoT Platform, Microsoft Azure IoT Platform, and PTC ThinkWorx), updated security (Chapter 8) to include approaches for securing IoT devices with examples of IoT devices used in security attacks and associated solutions including MUD and DICE, and finally new Appendix B to include six IoT project detailed for students.

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Springer Nature

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3030901580

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The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

By: Omar Santos,Samer Salam,Hazim Dahir

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The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

By: Omar Santos,Samer Salam,Hazim Dahir

The AI Revolution is Here. Discover its Dynamic Applications in Networking, Cybersecurity, and More. AI is having a profound impact on nearly every sector of the workforce. Huge professional and financial opportunities await in the key domains of computer networking, cybersecurity, IoT, and cloud computing. The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies will give you the edge you need to harness AI for your benefit. Learn how AI can efficiently identify shadow data, fortify security measures, generate predictive analytics in real time, and so much more. In this comprehensive guide, Cisco professionals Omar Santos, Samer Salam, and Hazim Dahir engage you in both AI application and theory through practical case studies and predictions of future trends, which makes this book not just a valuable guide for today, but an indispensable resource for tomorrow. You'll discover how AI is building robust bridges in collaboration tools and turning IoT into a super-intelligent network of devices so you can quickly identify and resolve network security threats while enhancing network performance. This book will show you how AI can help you modernize and fortify your operations and make yourself a key asset to your company. Are you ready to join The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies? Gain industry-specific knowledge from experienced professionals Discover new capabilities like self-healing networks and predictive analytics Learn how AI can save time by detecting and correcting issues in real time Master techniques for security monitoring and alerting Understand potential security and privacy pitfalls of using AI, and how to guard against them Understand how AI works for you and with you Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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0138293635

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Public Health in the Arab World

By: Samer Jabbour

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Public Health in the Arab World

By: Samer Jabbour

This volume reviews the public health concerns and challenges specific to the complex Arab world from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521516749

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Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

By: Samer S. Shehata

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Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

By: Samer S. Shehata

In Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt, Samer S. Shehata provides us with a unique and detailed ethnographic portrait of life within two large textile factories in Alexandria, Egypt. Working for nearly a year as a "winding machine operator" provided Shehata with unprecedented access to workers at the point of production and the activities of the work hall. He argues that the social organization of production in the factories—including company rules and procedures, hierarchy, and relations of authority—and shop floor culture profoundly shape what it means to be a "worker" and how this identity is understood. Shehata reveals how economic relations inside the factory are simultaneously relations of significance and meaning, and how the production of wool and cotton textiles is, at the same time, the production of categories of identity, patterns of human interaction, and understandings of the self and others.

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State University of New York Press

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1438428561

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Rethinking Hizballah

Legitimacy, Authority, Violence

By: Samer N. Abboud,Benjamin J. Muller

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Rethinking Hizballah

Legitimacy, Authority, Violence

By: Samer N. Abboud,Benjamin J. Muller

International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society relations in Lebanon, this book presents a lucid examination of the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the Lebanese movement Hizballah from 1982 until the present. Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'; an articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acquisition and exercise of private authority, and the implications this has for other Lebanese political actors. An essential insight into the complexities of the workings of Hizballah, this book broadens our understanding of how legitimacy, authority and violence can be acquired and exercised outside the structure of the sovereign nation-state. An invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of Critical Comparative Politics and International Relations.

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Routledge

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1317064186

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The End of the Middle East Peace Process

The Failure of US Diplomacy

By: Samer Bakkour

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The End of the Middle East Peace Process

The Failure of US Diplomacy

By: Samer Bakkour

Presenting the Middle East peace process as an extension of US foreign policy, this book argues that ongoing interventions justified in the name of ‘peace’ sustain and reproduce hegemonic power. With an interdisciplinary approach, this book questions the conceptualisation and general understanding of the peace process. The author reinterprets regional conflict as an opportunity for the US through which it seeks to achieve regional dominance and control. Engaging with the different stages and components of the peace process, he considers economic, military and political factors which both changed over time and remained constant. This book covers the US role of mediation in the region during the Cold War, the history and present state of US-Israel relations, Syria’s reputation as an opponent of ‘peace’ compared with its participation in peace negotiations, and the Palestinian-Israel conflict with attention to US involvement. The End of the Middle East Peace Process will primarily be of interest to those hoping to gain an improved understanding of key issues, concepts and themes relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict and US intervention in the Middle East. It will also be of value to those with an interest in the practicalities of peacebuilding.

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1000595978

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Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam

An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas

By: Samer Akkach

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Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam

An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas

By: Samer Akkach

This fascinating interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new translations, a number from unpublished sources, and several illustrations. Referencing a wide range of mystical texts, and with a special focus on the works of the great Sufi master Ibn Arabi, Akkach introduces a notion of spatial sensibility that is shaped by religious conceptions of time and space. Religious beliefs about the cosmos, geography, the human body, and constructed forms are all underpinned by a consistent spatial sensibility anchored in medieval geocentrism. Within this geometrically defined and ordered universe, nothing stands in isolation or ambiguity; everything is interrelated and carefully positioned in an intricate hierarchy. Through detailed mapping of this intricate order, the book shows the significance of this mode of seeing the world for those who lived in the premodern Islamic era and how cosmological ideas became manifest in the buildings and spaces of their everyday lives. This is a highly original work that provides important insights on Islamic aesthetics and culture, on the history of architecture, and on the relationship of art and religion, creativity and spirituality.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483444

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The Autumn of Dictatorship

Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak

By: Samer Soliman

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The Autumn of Dictatorship

Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak

By: Samer Soliman

The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement, have increased dramatically over recent years. In hindsight, it is the durability of the Mubarak regime, not its sudden loss of legitimacy that should be more surprising. Though many have turned to social media for explanation of the events, in this book, Samer Soliman follows the age-old adage—follow the money. Over the last thirty years, the Egyptian state has increasingly given its citizens less money and fewer social benefits while simultaneously demanding more taxes and resources. This has lead to a weakened state—deteriorating public services, low levels of law enforcement, poor opportunities for employment and economic development—while simultaneously inflated the security machine that sustains the authoritarian regime. Studying the regime from the point of view of its deeds rather than its discourse, this book tackles the relationship between fiscal crisis and political change in Egypt. Ultimately, the Egyptian case is not one of the success of a regime, but the failure of a state. The regime lasted for 30 years because it was able to sustain and reproduce itself, but left an increasingly weakened state, unable to facilitate capitalist development in the country. The resulting financial crisis profoundly changed the socio-economic landscape of the country, and now is paving the way for political change and the emergence of new social forces.

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Stanford University Press

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080477773X

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The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf

Power, Politics and Money

By: Jean Francois Seznec,Samer Mosis

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The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf

Power, Politics and Money

By: Jean Francois Seznec,Samer Mosis

Financial markets across the Arabian Peninsula have gone from being small, quasi-medieval structures in the 1960s to large world-class groupings of financial institutions. This evolution has been fueled by vast increases in income from oil and natural gas. The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf presents and analyzes the banks, stock markets, investment companies, money changers and sovereign wealth funds that have grown from this oil wealth and how this income has acted as a buffer between Gulf society at large and the newfound cash reserves of Gulf Cooperation Council states (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain) over the last fifty years. By assessing the development of institutions like the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, the Public Investment Fund and the National Bank of Kuwait, The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf evaluates the growth of the markets and provides a detailed, critical, snapshot of the current form and function of the Gulf’s financial markets. It argues that the markets have been controlled by various state institutions for socio-political reasons. In particular, the Saudi state has used its sophisticated regulatory regime to push for industrialization and diversification, which culminated in the Vision 2030 plan. The UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman have also been strongly involved in establishing modern markets for similar purposes but have done so through different means, with varying results, and each in line with what has been considered their respective comparative advantages. Along with critically surveying these institutions and their role in global finance, the book also presents case studies depicting transactions typical to the region, including the highly profitable documentary credits of commercial banks, the financial scandal of certain financiers and their regulatory arbitrage between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, a review of the Dubai’s trade miracle, and an assessment of the value and importance of the privatization of Saudi Aramco.

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1351059696

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The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

By: Omar Santos,Samer Salam,Hazim Dahir

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By: Omar Santos,Samer Salam,Hazim Dahir

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Book's by Samer Salam

Internet of Things from Hype to Reality

Internet of Things from Hype to Reality

The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

Public Health in the Arab World

Public Health in the Arab World

Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt

Rethinking Hizballah

Rethinking Hizballah

The End of the Middle East Peace Process

The End of the Middle East Peace Process

Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam

Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam

The Autumn of Dictatorship

The Autumn of Dictatorship

The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf

The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf

The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

The AI Revolution in Networking, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

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