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  Issue 020

  Vol. 8 No. 020 (2025)

  Issue 20 of Almuntaqa (2025) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “The State and the Arab State in Bishara’s Democratic Project: Political-Philosophical Approaches” (Mohammad Othman Mahmoud); “Digital Activism within the Coptic Community in North America: New Transnational Opportunities or Emerging Threats?” (Lilian Estafanous); “Economic Theology in Iraq: The Parallel Economy of Al-Kafeel” (Khalid Mutlaq); “Toward a Pharmaceutical Anthropology in Morocco: The Biography of Aureomycin from Physical Production to Cultural Reinterpretation” (Farouk Tahri); “The 2019 Legislative and Presidential Elections in Tunisia: Politics, Electoral Behaviors, and Elite Mobilization” (Brahim Chlaih); “Chinese Strategy Toward Arab States: Goals and Implications for the Future, an Exploration” (Yasmine Lahnin).

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  Issue 019

  Vol. 8 No. 019 (2025)

  Issue 19 of Almuntaqa (2025) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “From Taxation to Dispossession: Land Governance and the Colonization of Palestine” (Munir Fakher Eldin); “Protecting the Syrian Family: Community Reconstruction and the Unseen Consequences of War” (Araa Al Jaramani); “The Illusion of the Tunisian Exception: Civil Society and Democratic Transition” (Mehdi Mabrouk); “The Role of Urban Transformation in Saudi Arabia’s Nation-building: The Case of al-Balad, Jeddah” (Rufei Li); “Cyberpunk Urban Fantasies in the Gulf: The Line as an Incubator of Modernization in Saudi Arabia and Beyond” (Federico Cugurullo, Isobel Lee, Rebecca Weir); “Jerusalem: A Closed City” (Jerusalem Story Team); “The Whitewashing of History in a Time of Genocide” (Mostafa Minawi); “Social Media Use, Trust, and Surveillance in the Arab Region: Insights from the Arab Opinion Index (2024-2025)” (Laila Omar, Wajd Beshara, Nour Chibani); “Beersheba Region, Southern Ottoman Palestine: Land, Society, and State” (Mansour Nasasra); “Death Between Society and Culture” (Habib Nahdi).

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  Issue 018

  Vol. 8 No. 018 (2025)

  Issue 18 of Almuntaqa (2025) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “Introduction: Water Ways: Critical Studies in Gulf and Arab History” (Ismail Nashef); “The Sailing Scribe: Mansur al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf” (Fahad Ahmad Bishara); “The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History” (Amna Abdulla Sadiq); “The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence” (Faozi Al-Goidi); “Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village During the Anthropocene” (Yasmeen Qadan); “The Litani as a Link: Toward a Better Reconstruction in Lebanon” (Hussein Abdulmunim Amery); ““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” (Adel Maalel); “The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written” (Hichem Charfi).

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  Issue 017

  Vol. 7 No. 017 (2024)

  Issue 17 of Almuntaqa (2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “The Beautification of War: Digital Communications, Public Indifference, Rebel Journalism, and Civilian Resistance in the Age of Meta Wars” (John Keane); “Emergency Telephone: The June 1967 War and Its Impact on Nablus in the Correspondence Between Hamdi Kanaan and Akram Zuaytir” (Bilal Mohammed Shalash); “Tribalism, Regionalism, and the Stalled Building of the Modern State in Libya” (Hani Mousa); “Political Science in the Arab World” (Abdelwahab El-Affendi); “The Arab Charter on Human Rights and International Human Rights Standards: The Practices and Approaches of the Arab Human Rights Committee” (Moataz El Fegiery); “Mapping the Literary: A Spatial Reading of Hilal Chouman’s Kāna Ghadan” (Farah Z. Aridi); “What Do Arabs Think About When They Think About Migration? Insights from the Arab Opinion Index (2011-2022)” (Majd Abuamer); “The Horn of Africa: A Strategic Depth for Gulf States” (Khaled Alkhaldi).

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  Issue 016

  Vol. 7 No. 016 (2024)

  Issue 16 of Almuntaqa (2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “Between Empires and Nation: Memories of the Great War and Iraqi National Identity” (Dina Khoury); “An Unstable Transitional Period: Transformations of the Hybrid Coalition in Sudan” (Hassan Elhag Ali Ahmad); “Iraq’s Judiciary: Problems of Unrestricted Independence” (Firas Mekkiya); “Struggling to Fit: The Case of Saudi-Born Millennial Returnees of Palestinian Origin to Jordan” (Abdallah S. Abolouz); “Colonial Paternalism under Israeli Military Rule (1967-1977): “Social Welfare” as a Tool of Control” (Ashraf Othman Bader, Asem Khalil); “Israel’s War on Gaza: Views from Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon” (Yara Nassar); “New Women’s Migrations in Africa: Determinants and Dynamics” (Yassine Haggan).

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  Issue 015

  Vol. 7 No. 015 (2024)

  Issue 15 of Almuntaqa (2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note” (Editorial Board); “Gaza: Moral Matters in Hard Times” (Azmi Bishara); “The United Nations Early Warning Mechanism for the Prevention of Genocide and its Obstruction in the Case of Palestine” (Aicha Elbasri); “On the Depraved Legal Debate over the Responsibility to Protect in Gaza” (Mohammed Hemchi); “Detection, Neutralization, and Destruction: The Limits of Israel’s Strategy against Gaza’s Tunnels” (Majd Abuamer); “Assessing the Economic and Social Impacts of Israel’s War on Palestine” (Raja Khalidi, Qais Iwidat); “The Israeli War Against UNRWA and Its Impact on Palestinian Refugees” (Ayat Hamdan); “Identity, Anxiety, and War: Hezbollah and the Gaza Tragedy” (Adham Saouli); “Policies without Sovereignty: Palestinian Electricity under Occupation in Gaza” (Ibrahim Rabaia); “How Israel Lost the 2023 Gaza Propaganda War” (Basim Tweissi); “From Expulsion to Self-Rule: The Zionist Quest to Bury Palestine Alive” (Tariq Dana); “Gaza: The Lost Years of Development (2007-2018)” (Omar Shaban).

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  Issue 014

  Vol. 6 No. 014 (2023)

  Issue 14 of Almuntaqa (2023) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note”; “Political Culture and Democratic Transition: A Reassessment” (Azmi Bishara); “From Modernization to Communalism: The Remaking of Iraqi Politics and the Hollowing-Out of the State since 2003” (Harith Hasan); “The Political Culture of Young Nubians in Egypt: The Return Movement” (Ahmed Abdelmawgoud Elshenawy); “The Evolution and Impact of the Sports Boycott of Israel” (Ihab Maharmeh); “Frankincense’s Ritual Uses in Oman: An Anthropological Study” (Hajer Harrathi); “Public Opinion Trends in Tunisia 2022” (Wajd Beshara); “On the Meaning of Land: Reclaiming the Palestinian Selfhood” (Ahmed Idrees); “Issues of Methodology in Political Science, History, Law, and Demography” (Ahmed Qasem Hussein).

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  Issue 013

  Vol. 6 No. 013 (2023)

  Issue 13 of Almuntaqa (2023) includes the following studies and articles: “The Lived Experiences of Married Palestinian Women from the Occupied Territories of 1967 Residing within the” (Suhad Daher-Nashif, Areen Hawari); “The 2019 Ḥirāk and the Arab Spring Uprisings: The Limits of the Algerian Exception Narrative?” (Abdennour Benantar, Mohammed Hemchi); “Regional Security Governance, Audience Expectations and Foreign Policy Roles: North Africa's Demand that Tunisia Maintains Its” (Imad Mansour, John Daniels Hicks); “Subjects in Contested Space: The Securitization of the Kurdish Language in Syria” (Yunus Abakay); “Pig Husbandry in Morocco in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in the History of Taboos” (Basraoui Yahya); “Arab Public Perception of Iran's Regional Role and Policies” (Hamideh Dorzadeh); “Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions;” (Mohamed Chibani); “The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings” (Abdelkarim Amengay).

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  Issue 012

  Vol. 6 No. 012 (2023)

  Issue 12 of Almuntaqa (2023) includes the following studies and articles: “Understanding the Secession of Somaliland: History of the Formation and Failure of the Somali State (1960-1991)” (Suhaib Mahmoud); “Women's Rights and the Palestinian Authority” (Ayah Randall); “An Illusory Unity: Understanding the Construction of Kurdish Political Identity” (Seevan Saeed); “Migration and the Developmental Impact of Migrant Remittances on the Urban Space in Tunisia: What Development Dynamics?” (Chiheb Yahyaoui); “The Right to Education and Egypt's Prison Policies since 2013” (Saif Alislam Eid); “Popular Political Opinions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 2011: Insights from the Arab Opinion Index” (Yara Nassar); “Democratic Transition and its Problematics: A Theoretical and Applied Comparative Study” (Sena Khateeb); “Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring” (Sofia Hnezla).

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  Issue 011

  Vol. 5 No. 011 (2022)

  Issue 11 of Almuntaqa (2022) includes the following studies and articles: “Redefining Secularism and its Problematics in Arab Contexts: Azmi Bishara’s Theoretical and Methodological Contributions” (Souhail Hbaieb); “How to Read a Massacre in Palestine: Indigenous History as a Methodology of Liberation” (Rana Barakat); “Regime Elite Turnover in the Waning Syrian Civil War (2016-2021): A Socio-Economic Approach” (Ammar Shamaileh, Alan Aloskan, Mohammed Zahr); “Algeria’s Security Policy: Transformations and Dilemmas in the Context of Regional Unrest and Internal Ḥirāk” (Abdennour Benantar); “The Sudanese Revolution and the Horizons of Democratisation” (Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid); “The Digital Divide and Political Apathy: A Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis of a Sample of Arab Opinion Index Data” (Hicham Raïq); “The European Union and the Arab Region: A Realistic Portrait of Challenge” (Hikmat al-Abdulrahman); “Arab History and Arab Historiography: Past and Present Forms of Writing” (Lotfi Aïssa).

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  Issue 010

  Vol. 5 No. 010 (2022)

  Issue 10 of Almuntaqa (2022) includes the following studies and articles: “The Arab State: A Historical Sociology Approach” (Adham Saouli, Raymond Hinnebusch); “Global South Studies on Civil Society: An Arab Contribution” (Mohammed Hemchi); “Algeria: Democratisation in the Context of Economic Failure (1989-1999)” (Nouri Dris); “Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Zionism, Settler Colonialism” (Lorenzo Veracini); “The Forced Displacement of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Disputed Areas in Iraq: A Case Study of the Post-2014 Yazidi Minority” (Majid Hassan Ali); “Arab Public Opinion on Political Systems: A Comparative Study Using Principal Component Analysis” (Hicham Raïq, Mohamed Ourya); “Arab Public Opinion and Government Performance in Providing Basic Services” (Public Opinion Polling Unit); “Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia” (Mouldi Lahmar).

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  Issue 009

  Vol. 4 No. 009 (2021)

  Issue 9 of Almuntaqa (2021) includes the following studies and articles: “The Balancing Powers in Kuwait in the 1938 Majlis Movement: New Insights from the Minutes of the Legislative Council” (Abdulrahman Alebrahim); “Transformations of the Welfare State in Algeria: Social Policies Tested by Economic and Developmental Crises” (Hami Hacene); “Understanding Hamas: Remarks on Three Different and Interrelated Theoretical Approaches” (Hani Awad); “Nineteenth Century Slave Markets: The Moroccan Slave Trade” (Rahal Boubrik); “Bottom-up Urbanization and the Culture of Squatting: A Critical Assessment” (Nezar Alsayyad); “Public Opinion Trends on the Democratic Experiment in Tunisia” (Public Opinion Polling Unit); “A Study on the Foreign Policy of Qatar” (Sena Khateeb); “Palestinians Worldwide: A Demographic Study” (Majd Abuamer).

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  Issue 008

  Vol. 4 No. 008 (2021)

  Issue 8 of Almuntaqa (2021) includes the following studies and articles: “The Omnipresence of America and the Absence of American Studies” (Azmi Bishara); “The Sectarian Imagining of the 1920 Revolution and the Construction of a Shi'i Victimization Narrative” (Akeel Abbas); “Why the Theory and Practice of Transitional Justice Needs to be Better Integrated in all Places around the World” (Jeremy Sarkin); “Proving and Silencing: How Palestinian Fighters Ended “Annexation” (15 May 1948 – January 1949) in the writings of Qasim Al-Rimawi on al-Jihad al-Muqaddas” (Bilal Mohammed Shalash); “The Evolution of the Military Action of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades: How Hamas Established its Army in Gaza” (Ahmed Qasem Hussein); “Assessing Arab Public Opinion Toward the Palestinian Issue” (Mohammad AlMasri); “The Nakba and the Emergence of the Palestinian Diaspora in Kuwait” (Majd Abuamer); “Arab Jihadism: Nikāya and Tamkīn between ISIL and al-Qaeda” (Azzam Al Kassir).

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  Issue 007

  Vol. 3 No. 007 (2020)

  Issue 7 of Almuntaqa (2020) includes the following studies and articles: “A Critique of Public Administration and Policy Scholarship in Arab Countries: The Benefits of Comparative Analysis and an Agenda for Future Research” (Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim); “Public Policy Studies: Academic Roots and Practical Significance” (B. Guy Peters); “Don't forget Law and Politics! What can Arab Public Administration Scholars learn from the Fluidity of the Field in the US Experience?” (David Rosenbloom, Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim); “Quality Assurance in Tunisian Higher Education: A case-driven analysis of prevalent policymaking practice” (Intissar Kherigi, Khalil Amiri, Sofiane Sahraoui, Ichrak Klai, Sana Ajmi); “Cultural Competency Teaching and Practice in the MENA” (Aziza Zemrani, Deborah L. Trent, Sawsan Abutabenjeh); “Armed Resistance versus Nonviolent Strategies: An Analysis of Palestinian Public Opinion” (Dana El Kurd); “The city in the Islamic World: From Imitiation to Modernization: A Reading of The Arab City and Modernity” (Abderrahim Benhadda).

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  Issue 006

  Vol. 3 No. 006 (2020)

  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).

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  Issue 005

  Vol. 2 No. 005 (2019)

  Issue 5 of Almuntaqa (2019) includes the following studies and articles: “History told by the vanquished: A critical reading of 1947-1948 war diaries as historical sources” (Bilal Mohammed Shalash); “Nakba Diaries: Unsettling the Scale and Temporality of Historical Writing” (Alex Winder); “Remarks on External Factors in Democratic Transition” (Azmi Bishara); “Actors, Structures and Qatari Foreign Policy” (Marwan Kabalan); “Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization” (Nader Kadhim); “Public Opinion and The Army: The Cases of Algeria and Sudan” (Dana El Kurd); “Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States” (Baqer Alnajjar); “The Caliphate State: Advancing Towards the Past, ISIL and the Local Community in Iraq” (Chamseddin Alkilani).

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  Issue 004

  Vol. 2 No. 004 (2019)

  Issue 4 of Almuntaqa (2019) includes the following studies and articles: “On the Precedence of Understanding Over Method” (Azmi Bishara); “The New Arab Urban: Test Beds, Work-arounds, and the Limits of Enacted Cities” (Harvey Molotch, Davide Ponzini); “Iraqi Shi'is and the Pressure of Religious Identity: An Attempt to Determine the Meaning of Shi'i Identity” (Haider Saeed); “The Historian and Quantitative Approaches: Demographic Studies of Islamic Cities” (Tariq Madani); “The Kurdish Movement in the Arab World: The Syrian Kurds as a Case Study” (Mohannad Al-Kati); “An Arab Assessment of Iranian Foreign Policy” (Dana El Kurd); “Review: History of Minorities in the Far Maghreb: The Case of Christians during the Middle Ages” (Rabhi Radwan); “Reviewed Work: The Virtual and the Revolution: The Place of the Internet in the Emergence of an Arab Civil Society by Jawhar al-Jamusi” (Nadim Mansouri).

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  Issue 003

  Vol. 1 No. 003 (2018)

  Issue 3 of Almuntaqa (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “Iraq is not Artificial: Iraqi Trends and the Refutation of the Artificial State Hypothesis” (Nahar Muhammed Nuri); “Kirkuk in Iraqi Narratives of Victimization and the Victimizer” (Khalil Fadl Osman); “Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Pluralism in Oman: The Link with Political Stability” (Ahmed Alismaili); “The Demographic Gift in the Arab World: a Blessing or a Time Bomb for Morocco?” (Brahim Elmorchid); “The Congruent Critique of Despotism in 'Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and Shaykh 'Ali Abdel-Raziq” (Hicham El Haddaji); “Public Opinion of Women's Rights and Democratic Values” (Dana El Kurd); “Review: The Issue of the Kurds in Syria: Facts, History and Myth” (Hamza Mustapha); “Review: January 25: Research and Testimonies” (Khalid Walid Mahmoud).

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  Issue 002

  Vol. 1 No. 002 (2018)

  Issue 2 of Almuntaqa (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “The Constant and the Variable in the Attitudes of Moroccan Islamists towards the Civil State” (Hisham Khabbash); “The Muslim Brotherhood's Generational Gap: Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Era” (Doha Samir); “Ta'ifah, Sect and Sectarianism: from the Word and its Changing Implications to the Analytical Sociological Term” (Azmi Bishara); “The Nature of Early Islamic Sources and the Debate Over their Historical Significance” (Hayat Amamu); “Religiosity and its Political Effects” (Dana El Kurd); “History and Society of Iraq between Hanna Batatu and Ali al-Wardi” (Dina Khoury); “Reading the Arab Revolutions: Authoritarianism and the Implications of Change” (Waleed Noueihed); “Review: The Arab Intellectual and Tiananmen Square” (Azzam Amin).

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  Issue 001

  Vol. 1 No. 001 (2018)

  Issue 1 of Almuntaqa (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Issues” (Azmi Bishara); “The Restructuring of the Yemeni Army” (Adel Al-Shargabi); “The Ottoman Tanzimat and the Constitution” (Wajih Kawtharani); “The Welfare State in Egypt, 1995- 2005: A Comparative Approach” (Ahmed Ezz Eldin Mohamed); “Criminals or Martyrs? Let the Courts Decide!-British Colonial Legacy in Palestine and the Criminalization of Resistance” (Rana Barakat); “Creating a State Capacity Index Using the Arab Opinion Index” (Dana El Kurd); “The Revival of Japan in the Meiji Period from an Arab-Islamic Perspective” (Aziz Al Arabawi); “The Formation of Modern Iraq: Society, Culture and Domestic and Foreign Influence” (Samir Abdul Rasoul al-Obaidy).