مجلد 8 عدد 018 (2025): العدد 18

Cover of العدد 18, Almuntaqa

صدر العدد 18 من دورية «المنتقى» (2025)، ويتضمّن الدراسات والمقالات الآتية: «Editor's Note»؛ «Introduction: Water Ways: Critical Studies in Gulf and Arab History»؛ «The Sailing Scribe: Mansur al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf»؛ «The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History»؛ «The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence»؛ «Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village During the Anthropocene»؛ «The Litani as a Link: Toward a Better Reconstruction in Lebanon»؛ «“Jerusalem should be open and available to all”: A Conversation about Jerusalem Story with Kate Rouhana»؛ «Social Media’s Socio-Cultural Impacts: An Analysis of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index»؛ «The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written».

منشور: 2025-09-01

المقالات

  • Introduction: Water Ways: Critical Studies in Gulf and Arab History

    مؤلف: Ismail Nashef (المؤلف)
    7-14

    This special issue comprises four studies that explore various social and historical phenomena in which water plays a central role.

  • The Sailing Scribe: Mansur al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf

    مؤلف: Fahad Ahmad Bishara (المؤلف)
    15-27

    How did Gulf nakhodas [dhow captains] produce the routes they traversed around the Indian Ocean? This article draws on the writings of one Kuwaiti nakhoda , Mansur bin Ibrahim al-Khariji...

  • The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History

    مؤلف: Amna Abdulla Sadiq (المؤلف)
    28-39

    This article discusses a transformative phase in the history of trade in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, as a result of the expansion of World War II into the passages and ports of the Indian...

  • The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence

    مؤلف: Faozi Al-Goidi (المؤلف)
    40-62

    This study examines the figure of Sheikh Rahmah ibn Jabir, whose influence emerged in the late 18th century, and whose network’s activity operated across three key centres along the Gulf shores,...

  • Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village During the Anthropocene

    مؤلف: Yasmeen Qadan (المؤلف)
    63-78

    This article traces practices that sustain the continuity of life in Palestinian villages, approaching practitioners intimately through a methodology of slowness. It examines the Anthropocene as...

  • The Litani as a Link: Toward a Better Reconstruction in Lebanon

    مؤلف: Hussein Abdulmunim Amery (المؤلف)
    79-88

    This study addresses the vital importance of the Litani River in Lebanon and the environmental challenges resulting from its severe pollution. An estimated 40 million cubic metres of untreated...

افتتاحية

  • Editor's Note

    5-5

    Critical Studies on the Water Ways in the Gulf and Arab History for Issue 18 of Al-Muntaqa

تحليل المؤشر العربي

  • Social Media’s Socio-Cultural Impacts: An Analysis of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index

    مؤلف: Adel Maalel (المؤلف)
    96-106

    This article examines the socio-cultural impacts of social media in Arab public opinion. The analysis is based on the results of the eighth Arab Index survey, conducted in 2022 by the Arab...

مراجعات كتب

  • The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written

    مؤلف: Hichem Charfi (المؤلف)
    108-112

    As-Saghira Ben Hamida, The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written (Doha/Beirut: ACRPS, 2024), pp. 271.

حوارات

  • “Jerusalem should be open and available to all”: A Conversation about Jerusalem Story with Kate Rouhana

    90-94

    In this interview, Kate Rouhana, Founding Director of Jerusalem Story , sheds light on the website’s mission to offer in-depth research, analysis, and coverage of the Palestinian community in...