Vol. 8 No. 018 (2025): Issue 018

Cover of العدد 18, Almuntaqa

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).

Published: 2025-09-01

المقالات

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

    Author: Ismail Nashef (Author)
    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

    Author: Fahad Ahmad Bishara (Author)
    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

    Author: Amna Abdulla Sadiq (Author)
    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

    Author: Faozi Al-Goidi (Author)
    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

    Author: Yasmeen Qadan (Author)
    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

    Author: Hussein Abdulmunim Amery (Author)
    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...

Editorial Note

  • Editor's Note

    5-5

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

Arab Opinion Index Analysis

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

    Author: Adel Maalel (Author)
    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...

Book Reviews

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

    Author: Hichem Charfi (Author)
    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.

Interviews

  • “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...