Vol. 7 No. 017 (2024): Issue 017

Cover of العدد 17, Almuntaqa

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).

Published: 2024-05-01

المقالات

  • The Beautification of War: Digital Communications, Public Indifference, Rebel Journalism, and Civilian Resistance in the Age of Meta Wars

    Author: John Keane (Author)
    8-28

    This public lecture proposes that we have entered the age of destructive meta wars . Digital communications technologies are nowadays enabling not only frightening transformations of the modes...

  • Emergency Telephone: The June 1967 War and Its Impact on Nablus in the Correspondence Between Hamdi Kanaan and Akram Zuaytir

    Author: Bilal Mohammed Shalash (Author)
    29-43

    This study examines the correspondence between Hamdi Kanaan and Akram Zuaytir in the immediate aftermath of the June 1967 War. Their exchange highlights how the war disrupted traditional means...

  • Tribalism, Regionalism, and the Stalled Building of the Modern State in Libya

    Author: Hani Mousa (Author)
    44-61

    This paper explores the underlying causes of the stalled state-building process in Libya, identifying tribalism and regionalism as the primary obstacles. It examines how different modes of...

  • Political Science in the Arab World

    Author: Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Author)
    62-77

    This study emphasizes the importance of assessing the state of political science within Arab academic institutions. It posits that the humanities and social sciences, particularly political...

  • The Arab Charter on Human Rights and International Human Rights Standards: The Practices and Approaches of the Arab Human Rights Committee

    Author: Moataz El Fegiery (Author)
    78-97

    This article examines the Arab Human Rights Committee (AHRC)’s interpretation of the rights enshrined in the Arab Charter on Human Rights. It argues that the AHRC has positioned its work not as...

  • Mapping the Literary: A Spatial Reading of Hilal Chouman’s Kāna Ghadan

    Author: Farah Z. Aridi (Author)
    98-117

    This study highlights the significance of space as a narrative component capable of opening up a text to various possibilities. As such, the text is treated as a critical roadmap capable of...

Editorial Note

  • Editor's Note

    5-6

    Meta Wars, War Correspondence, the Libyan State, Political Science in the Arab World, Arab Charter on Human Rights, and Literary Spaces Topics for Issue 17 of Al-Muntaqa

Arab Opinion Index Analysis

  • What Do Arabs Think About When They Think About Migration? Insights from the Arab Opinion Index (2011-2022)

    Author: Majd Abuamer (Author)
    119-132

    This paper examines Arab public opinion trends on migration based on data from eight Arab Opinion Index surveys conducted annually by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in 14 Arab...

Book Reviews

  • The Horn of Africa: A Strategic Depth for Gulf States

    Author: Khaled Alkhaldi (Author)
    134-136

    Madoukh Ajmi Al-Otaibi, The Horn of Africa: A Strategic Depth for Gulf States (Doha: Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, 2021), pp. 230.