Journals 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
Omran is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to producing, disseminating, and advancing specialized knowledge in sociology and anthropology, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Hikama is a bi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to public policy and public administration, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Al Muntaqa is a peer-reviewed English-language journal published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, offering new perspectives on Arab studies and translations of leading Arabic social-science scholarship.
Istishraf is a peer-reviewed annual journal dedicated to future studies, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Ostour is a peer-reviewed biannual journal dedicated to historical studies, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Tabayyun is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to philosophical studies and critical theory, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Book title: The Sacred between the Symbol and the Sword. Author: Noureddine Zahi. Publisher: Tanger: Editions Agora. Date of Publication: 2023. Pages: 177.
Drawing on data from the 2024-2025 Arab Opinion Index, this report explores evolving public attitudes toward social media across Arab countries. It examines how individuals use digital platforms to acquire and engage with news and participate in political and social discourse, especially in the context of ongoing regional conflicts. The findings reveal high levels of reliance on social media for information, alongside growing concerns over misinformation, censorship, and cultural harm. Despite widespread support for content regulation, many continue to use these platforms to discuss political and social issues. The report underscores the complexity of digital awareness and engagement in the Arab region and calls for more qualitative research to unpack public views on censorship, freedom of expression, and the impact of social media on political awareness and democratic values.
Tunisia’s democratic transition has attracted considerable scholarly attention, and is often portrayed as a notable exception. However, the reversal of most democratic gains in the decade following the 2011 revolution has called this narrative into question. This study deconstructs the notion of Tunisian exceptionalism through a critical examination of civil society, tracing its role from the pre-revolutionary period through the democratic transition, and up to Kais Saied’s 2021 coup. The study shows that Tunisian civil society contributed to the derailment of the democratic transition in three ways: first, by exacerbating Islamist-secular polarization, resulting in a fragmented “two-headed” civil society; second, by becoming an extension of political parties; and third, by encroaching on the role of the state, undermining its legitimacy and effectiveness in the public sphere.
Ahmed Zeineldin, Death Between Society and Culture (Doha/ Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 223.
Herbert Blumer asserts that concept formation is of paramount importance for arriving at valid research results that reflect the reality under study. However, the relationship between the concept and the empirical social reality is a common methodological problem in social research. In this paper, presented in August 1953 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Blumer addresses this relationship between theories (concepts) and data (the empirical reality), and explains the problem of the "ambiguous nature of concepts" in social theory, and offers suggestions for overcoming it. Among these suggestions is the reliance on sensitizing rather than definitive concepts, since sensitizing concepts gain their usefulness and importance from typical relationships rather than from quantifiable associations.
The local history of Mount Lebanon is a cultural phenomenon that is only paralleled by the history of coastal Arab cities such as Tripoli, Beirut, and saida, and other inland cities such as Baalbek. In other words, it is a result of socio-economic developments. This history has dealt with cities that are, by their very nature, geo-polar cities, That is, it played economic and political roles in relation to its surroundings, and is distinguished by its demographic, social, and climatic characteristics, to the extent that summer marketing was one of the goals of local historians. The process of chronicling these towns has been characterised by common features, the first of which is their affiliation with the positivist school, which focuses on working with documents after critiquing them, and drawing on some auxiliary human sciences such as geography and archaeology. It also draws on Arab heritage in its treatment of family structures and their clannishness. After describing the historical method used, the geographical reality was described, the chronological patterns used, and the socio-economic, institutional, and educational history were examined. The research concluded with a descriptive-analytical summary of the characteristics of this history.
This study examines the history of land governance in Palestine from the late Ottoman era to the Israeli occupation that began in 1948, focusing on the structural transformations that shaped land tenure and control. It explores rent, ownership, and spatial planning as interrelated spheres for understanding the conflict’s dynamics. The study addresses how Ottoman law was utilized to regulate land ownership and how the British Mandate introduced significant reinterpretations of ownership that served broader colonial objectives. It also analyses the tools employed by the Israeli occupation to dispossess Palestinians, including legal mechanisms, expropriation, and spatial planning, while highlighting the historical, social, and political dimensions of the fight for land.
Ahmad Amara, Beersheba Region, Southern Ottoman Palestine: Land, Society, and State (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 344.
