Vol. 3 No. 006 (2020): Issue 006

Cover of العدد 6, Almuntaqa

Issue 6 of Almuntaqa (2020) includes the following studies and articles: “Fighting Corruption within the Framework of Transitional Justice: The Impact on Democratic Transition in Tunisia” (Adnen Nouioua); “A Law of Diminishing Returns: Transitional Justice in Post-Revolutionary Libya” (Mahmoud Hamad); “Arabic Origins of the Foundational Myth of Western Identity: Between Histories of the Conquest of America and the Conquest of Andalusia” (Mohamed Abdelrahman Hassan); “The Limits of Rational Choice in the Sociology of Social Movements: The 20 February Movement and the Rif Movement in Morocco” (Mohamed Naimi); “Prosopography: An Approach to Studying Elites and Social Groups” (Rajae Ankoud); “US Policy in Arab Gulf Opinion: Data from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait” (Dana El Kurd); “Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine” (Anwar Mhajne).

Published: 2020-09-01
Issue totals: 218 views 389 downloads 5 citations

المقالات

  • Fighting Corruption within the Framework of Transitional Justice: The Impact on Democratic Transition in Tunisia

    Cited once 34 views 52 downloads
    Author: Adnen Nouioua
    9-22

    This paper attempts to link transitional justice with anti-corruption in Tunisia and examines the impact of this relationship on the process of democratic transition. The paper examines the...

  • A Law of Diminishing Returns: Transitional Justice in Post-Revolutionary Libya

    Cited once 33 views 48 downloads
    Author: Mahmoud Hamad
    23-37

    This paper focuses on transitional justice in Libya since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi. It finds that unlike many countries that suffer from a paucity of transitional justice legislation,...

  • Arabic Origins of the Foundational Myth of Western Identity: Between Histories of the Conquest of America and the Conquest of Andalusia

    32 views 45 downloads
    Author: Mohamed Abdelrahman Hassan
    38-51

    The history of the conquest of America has constituted a primary source of self-perception and identity formation for Western nations, feeding their imagined superiority over the other nations...

  • The Limits of Rational Choice in the Sociology of Social Movements: The 20 February Movement and the Rif Movement in Morocco

    28 views 68 downloads
    Author: Mohamed Naimi
    52-69

    This study critically assesses rational choice theory in the sociology of social movements using Moroccan protest movements as a case study. It also shows how social movement studies evolved...

  • Prosopography: An Approach to Studying Elites and Social Groups

    Cited twice 33 views 48 downloads
    Author: Rajae Ankoud
    70-85

    This study presents prosopography, or collective bibliography, as an auxiliary approach to historical study. Prosopography focuses on researching the common characteristics of historical actors...

Arab Opinion Index Analysis

  • US Policy in Arab Gulf Opinion: Data from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

    Cited once 29 views 80 downloads
    Author: Dana El Kurd
    87-89

    This study aims to present the results of the Saudi and Kuwaiti opinion poll on US policy in the Arab region. The study attempts to analyze how Gulf Arab citizens view US policy since President...

Book Reviews

  • Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine

    29 views 48 downloads
    Author: Anwar Mhajne
    91-93

    Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine. Author: Dana El Kurd. Date of publication: 2020. Publisher: Hurst/Oxford University Press. No. of pages: 226. Dana El Kurd’s...