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.
The book Action publique et environnement , published in an updated edition in the “What Do I Know?” series, offers an analytical introduction to environmental crises, which have prompted states to rethink the mechanisms of public action. The two authors, Aurélien Évrard, a researcher specializing in energy policies, and Pierre Lascoumes, a researcher in the sociology of public action in France, address a set of central questions that the environment raises for the modern state. These include: How are political decisions made in a context of scarce data and conflicting scientific expertise? And how can multiple actors be integrated into the policymaking process, despite their differing interests and divergent perceptions of environmental risks?
This report provides an analytical overview of the papers presented at a workshop titled "Toward Palestinian Frameworks for Reconstruction in the Gaza Strip," organized by Hikama: Journal of Public Administration and Public Policy and the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, on the sidelines of the Fourth Annual Palestine Forum hosted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, in cooperation with the Institute for Palestine Studies. Taking a critical perspective, the papers examined the U.S. and Israeli approaches proposed for reconstruction, emphasizing the need to articulate independent Palestinian national visions and policies. The contributions affirmed the centrality of Palestinians remaining on their land, ensuring their protection, and safeguarding their rights. They also highlighted the role of Palestinian political actors and local civil society organizations in shaping and implementing reconstruction policies, in addition to addressing governance-related issues. The papers further stressed the priority of rebuilding the Palestinian people themselves and strengthening the education, security, and food sovereignty sectors as foundational pillars of any national framework for reconstruction in the Gaza Strip.
This issue of the journal Hikama includes a selection of book reviews prepared by the editorial board, as follows: Malm, Andreas, and Wim Carton. The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late. London and New York: Verso, 2025. Seyuba, Katongo, and Florian Krampe. Climate-Resilience Investment in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Opportunities for Business. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Schrogl, Kai-Uwe, Christina Giannopapa, and Ntorina Antoni, eds. The Politics of Geoengineering: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Cham: Springer, 2026. Sunstein, Cass R. Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2025. Dafallah, Anwar. Artificial Intelligence for a Green Planet: Harnessing Technology to Achieve Environmental Sustainability (in Arabic). Dubai: Zayed International Foundation for the Environment, 2025.
The book begins from a central problem in the contemporary research environment and academic publishing policies: the necessity of evaluating researchers and scientific institutions, and the growing demand for indicators assumed to be objective. However, these indicators reduce scholarly value to the number of citations, turning the researcher into a mere “number” in bibliometric tables, that is, the statistical measurement of citations. The book shows that these tools do not truly fulfill the purpose for which they were adopted, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, where scientific value is reduced to quantitative indicators that may mislead judgments and encourage distorted publishing practices.
This study examines the transformations in Saudi educational policies toward the Palestinian cause in school curricula, and the impact of local, regional, and global political and social contexts on the discourse produced by these policies. Through an analysis of 38 history textbooks published between 1990 and 2021, and using a critical discourse analysis approach, the study concludes that Islamic discourse initially dominated the curricula, with Palestine presented as part of the history of Islam and its conquests. Over time, the discourse gradually shifted, while maintaining an Islamic framing of Palestine. However, in 2019, with the implementation of "Vision 2030," radical transformations occurred, associated with a discourse focused solely on humanitarian aspects. The presence of Palestine in the new curricula significantly declined, being limited to a single lesson at the secondary school level.
