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Issue 13 of Hikama (2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Silence or Silencing?
HikamaJournals platform of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.
Issue 13 of Hikama (2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Silence or Silencing?
HikamaIssue 21 of Almuntaqa (2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “Two Perspectives on the “Us” and Postmodern Thought” (Azmi Bishara); “Sudanese Peace Agreements (1972-2020): The Legacy of State Formation and the Challenges of Sustainability” (Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk); “Public Right or Economic Commodity?
AlmuntaqaIssue 24 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2026) includes the following studies and articles: ““Styles” of Tunisian Historical Writing and Epistemic and Methodological Turns in the Modern and Contemporary Periods” (Abdelhamid Hénia); “Writing the General History of Tunisia over a Century: Changes and Challenges (1918-2019)” (Mohamed Lazhar Gharbi); “Repercussions of the Ottoman – Russian War (1768–1774) on the Political Situations in Mount Lebanon and the Coast during the Reign of Emir Yusuf Shihab” (Bassem Marwan Fleifel); “Kenitra from the Village to the Douar: The Expansion of the Urban Environment and the Emergence of the Moroccan Proletariat (1912 - 1975)” (Saïd El Bouzidi); “Urban Development of Jerusalem under Jordanian Rule: Narrating the Jerusalem International Airport, 1948-1967” (Mansour Nasasra); “Agricultural Modernization in Independent Morocco: Operation Plow (1957-1962)” (Brahim Aitizzy); “Microstoria” (Jacques Revel); “Moreno Cirillo's Journey to Southern Morocco: A Study of Mentalities, Representations, and Motivations” (Lacen Idbrahim, Bouzid Laghla); “Tunisia: From the Makhzen to the Modern State – Revisiting Mohamed-Salah Mzali's Intellectual Journey” (Khalid Jeddi); “A Workshop on Disseminating Historical Knowledge: A Reading of Fragments d'histoire marocaine: Société et figures du pouvoir by Abdelahad Sebti” (Hamid Titaou); “Gaza Faces History” (Abdelmajid Skhairi).
Ostour for Historical StudiesIssue 56 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Post-Independence Algerian Protest Movements: Rupture and Continuity” (Nacer Djabi); “The University as a Field of Struggle: Student Protests in Tunisia and Egypt (1968-1973)” (Adnan ElAmine); “Awareness of Otherness between Religion and Utility: Moroccans’ Representations of Sub-Saharan African Migrants” (Aziz Mechouat, Mehdi Jaafar); “When the Sociologist Wears the Historian’s Cloak: Uses of History in Khaldoun Al-Naqeeb’s Analysis of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Societies” (Abdulrahman Alebrahim); “War by Another Means: The Impasse of Gaza’s Reconstruction After Genocide” (Wadee Alarabeed); “The Teacher in New Sociologies of Education” (Mohammed El Idrissi); “The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco” (Clifford Geertz); “Current Ecological Trends: An Exercise in Classification and Typology” (Mohamed Hilal Elhassani); “Homo Numericus: The Coming “Civilization”” (Yassine Atana); “Featured Books” (Omran Editorial Board).
Omran for Social Sciences and HumanitiesIssue 57 of Tabayyun (2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Fear and Political Emotion: Spinoza and the Relationship between Authority and Superstition” (Lemrabott Sneid); “From the Problem of Reason to the Fact of Action: Epistemological Shifts in Kant’s Concept of Freedom” (Jaouad Gria, Mohamed Meziane); “Leo Strauss on Max Weber: His Critique of Positivism” (Abderrahim Rajrahi); “Taha Abdurrahman’s Account of the Connection between Reason and Sense Perception” (Abdellah Bakkali); “The Palestine Question and Abdallah Laroui's Historicism” (El-Hajj Mohamed al-Nassek, Mohamed Ourya); “Abdallah Laroui and Western Culture: Marx and Montesquieu as Pathways to Overcoming Historical Delay” (Soufian EL Barrak); “How Is This Paper Philosophy?” (Kristie Dotson); “The Concept of African Cultural Authenticity: Problematic and Methodological Issues and Other Topics” (Mujahid Eldouma); “The Political in the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas” (Omar Badri); “Featured Books” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun).
Tabayyunصدر العدد 10 من دورية "استشراف للدراسات المستقبلية"، ويتضمّن الدراسات والمقالات الآتية: "استشراف الطاقة النووية المدنية في الدول العربية في أفق 2040: الجاهزية والمفاضلة بين الخيارات وآفاق التكامل الإقليمي" (موزة بنت محمد الربان)؛ "سيناريوهات التسرب النووي في منطقة الخليج العربي: المخاطر وسبل الوقاية والتعامل معها" (عثمان البهالي، محمد حسن الحجي)؛ "الذكاء الاصطناعي وحروب المستقبل: هل انتهى عصر الردع النووي؟" (عبد الصمد فاضل)؛ "الردع النووي الرمزي في الشرق الأوسط: السيناريوهات الاستراتيجية والتوازنات الإقليمية في أفق 2035" (الدانه عبد الله العماري)؛ "استشراف مستقبلات الطاقة النووية: أربعة مشاهد مستقبلية، عالميًا وعربيًا" (هيئة دورية استشراف للدراسات المستقبلية)؛ "مستقبل الطاقة النووية في سياق السياسات المناخية: السرديات المتنافسة والسيناريوهات الممكنة" (الحسين شكراني، محمد جواد مالزي)؛ "الطريق نحو عصر جديد للطاقة النووية" (وكالة الطاقة الدولية)؛ "سيناريو للحرب النووية" (نجاح عبد الحليم)؛ "النهج النظامي المتكامل في مستقبل الطاقة النووية" (هيئة دورية استشراف للدراسات المستقبلية)؛ "مستقبل البحث العلمي والابتكار في سلطنة عُمان: في ضوء الرؤية المستقبلية" (يوسف بن حمد البلوشي)؛ "تأثيرات الذكاء الاصطناعي 2025-2040: توليف استشرافي قائم على قرائن الاقتصاد السياسي والأنظمة الاجتماعية والتقنية والحوكمة الديمقراطية" (أحمد قاسم حسين)؛ "نحو عالم أكثر مساواة في المستقبل: على الأقل جغرافيًا" (مهدي الأورابي)؛ "الطاقة النووية في الفضاء: رؤية استشرافية (2025-2050)" (هيئة دورية استشراف للدراسات المستقبلية).
Istishraf for Future Studies
The reappearance of talk about the role of religious interpretation in sparing humanity the opposition between "the state" and "religion" comes at a time of increasing conflict between church and the seat of temporal power. This is because revival in discussion about issues of religion and politics in the world today—whether in the Muslim or Western context. Religious movements in both worlds are struggling for liberation from the private sphere where they were placed by successive waves of secularization, and seek to return to the public sphere.
Among the new books that have strengthened the shelves of the Arab historical library is Politics and authority for Lisan ad-Din ibn al-Khatib through his epistle 'On the State and Fate of Servants of the State .' Authors Mohamed al-Baraka and Said Benhamada divide the book into two major parts. The first deals with the political experience of Ibn al-Khatib between education and practice in four chapters. The second addresses the study of the subject of politics and authority for Lisan ad-Din Ibn al-Khatib as found in two epistles attributed to him, which the authors deal with in two independent chapters. The book has a number of appendixes, a bibliography, list of sources, and a subject index.
Practices followed in the language of Arabic advertisements will cause problems for the future of Arabic. The large affect they have on the lives of large numbers of youth who memorize their phrases and repeat jingles in their daily lives. This paper shows how language operates on the surface of thought, and communicates on its lowest levels. The language of advertising evokes seduction and does away with conviction, despite adopting mechanisms to build arguments. It practices fraud and hides facts. This takes us to the importance of language for constructing the advertising message, and part of this paper is devoted to the language of advertising in terms of its features and operating mechanisms, enabling us to understand the marketing philosophy underlying their message.
The concept of “Civil society” disappeared for a time from circulation for reasons that are obscure, only to later re-emerge. Whatever the difficulty in grasping both the reasons underlying the disappearance of civil society and the reasons for its ''revival'', it is not possible – at least at the epistemological level – to overlook the matter because of its relevance to the ''perception'' of some of the fundamental complications of this concept, and because of the importance of understanding the origins and premises of the contemporary articulation of the concept of civil society. If this temporary disappearance of civil society has opened up a ''time gap'' in the intellectual history of the concept, the revival of civil society likewise creates a parallel ''intellectual gap'' observable in the semantic differences between two distinct phases in the evolution of the concept. Accordingly, this article attempts to understand the reasons for the disappearance of the concept of civil society on the one hand, and for its ''return to life” on the other, towards an approach to the central problematic: to what extent has the revival of the concept of civil society in “political thought” contributed to the reformulation of the standing of the concept, a system of developing democracy?
Book title: Labor Migration from the Arab Maghreb to Europe: The Example of Holland Author: Hashim Nima Fayyad Place of publication: Doha/Beirut Publisher: ACRPS Date of publication: 2012 Number of pages: 160
This paper reviews a group of books published by the ACRPS that deal with the Syrian revolution: Azmi Bishara’s “Syria’s Via Dolorosa towards Freedom: An Attempt at Current History”; “Backgrounds to the Revolution: Syrian Studies” (multiple authors); Hamza Almustafa’s “The Online Public Sphere in the Syrian Revolution: Features, Directions, Mechanisms of Public Opinion Formation”; and Jamal Barout’s “The Last Decade of Syrian History: Dialectic of Stagnation and Reform.”
الكتاب: مواطنة لا أنثى الكاتب: عزة شرارة بيضون مكان النشر: بيروت الناشر: دار الساقي تاريخ النشر: 2015 عدد الصفحات: 255
Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities by Maurice Godelier translated by Zahra Jaber and Saoud Al Mawla
There are many approaches to answering the thorny questions still being raised in the contemporary Arab world after more than 150 years: Why is the West advancing and not the Arab world? Why do we have faith in technology but not in modern science? Why are Arab societies opposed to structural change in politics like in economics, culture, and society? From among these approaches I will choose habitus as an operational concept to try to put forward a new socio-cognitive understanding of the question, bearing in mind that this concept which was gradually formulated by Pierre Bourdieu is itself a theory, given its coherence and methodological intensiveness, just like the concept of asabiya for Ibn Khaldun, which is also treated as a theory.