Vol. 2 No. 005 (2019): Issue 005

Cover of العدد 5, Almuntaqa

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).

Published: 2019-05-01

المقالات

  • History told by the vanquished: A critical reading of 1947-1948 war diaries as historical sources

    Author: Bilal Mohammed Shalash (Author)
    9-23

    Few studies and historical texts, especially in Arabic, discuss the battles fought over the coastal city of Jaffa during the 1947 - 1949 War. But alongside these few works, there do exist...

  • Nakba Diaries: Unsettling the Scale and Temporality of Historical Writing

    Author: Alex Winder (Author)
    24-39

    This paper argues that diaries are in themselves a kind of history—individual in scale and scope, but wide-ranging in content and style. Reading diaries as histories rather than as historical...

  • Remarks on External Factors in Democratic Transition

    Author: Azmi Bishara (Author)
    40-60

    Although this article generally acknowledges the priority of internal factors, it discusses the conditions for bringing back the external factor in certain cases, especially after the collapse...

  • Actors, Structures and Qatari Foreign Policy

    Author: Marwan Kabalan (Author)
    61-82

    Qatari foreign policy presents a challenge for students of international relations. Whereas major theories within the field tend to privilege structural factors in explaining the action of...

  • Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization

    Author: Nader Kadhim (Author)
    83-101

    This study explores how many factors, beginning with the recession of the pearl trade and the discovery of oil to the oil boom since the mid-1970s, contributed to the rapid urbanization of the...

Arab Opinion Index Analysis

  • Public Opinion and The Army: The Cases of Algeria and Sudan

    Author: Dana El Kurd (Author)
    103-109

    This article investigates the opinions of Sudanese and Algerian respondents on democracy as a model of government in their countries. It focuses on a group of questions: How much do Algerian and...

Book Reviews

  • Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States

    Author: Baqer Alnajjar (Author)
    111-113

    Book Title: Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States Author: Omar Hesham AlShehabi Date of publication: 2018 Publisher: Centre for Arab...

  • The Caliphate State: Advancing Towards the Past, ISIL and the Local Community in Iraq

    Author: Chamseddin Alkilani (Author)
    114-125

    Book Title: The Caliphate State: Advancing Towards the Past, ISIL and the Local Community in Iraq Author: Faleh Abdel Jabbar Date of publication: 2017 Publisher: Arab Center for Research and...