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Vol. 14 No. 056 (2026): Issue 056
غلاف العدد 56 من دورية عمران

Issue 56 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2026) includes the following studies and articles: “Post-Independence Algerian Protest Movements: Rupture and Continuity” (Nacer Djabi); “The University as a Field of Struggle: Student Protests in Tunisia and Egypt (1968-1973)” (Adnan ElAmine); “Awareness of Otherness between Religion and Utility: Moroccans’ Representations of Sub-Saharan African Migrants” (Aziz Mechouat, Mehdi Jaafar); “When the Sociologist Wears the Historian’s Cloak: Uses of History in Khaldoun Al-Naqeeb’s Analysis of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Societies” (Abdulrahman Alebrahim); “War by Another Means: The Impasse of Gaza’s Reconstruction After Genocide” (Wadee Alarabeed); “The Teacher in New Sociologies of Education” (Mohammed El Idrissi); “The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco” (Clifford Geertz); “Current Ecological Trends: An Exercise in Classification and Typology” (Mohamed Hilal Elhassani); “Homo Numericus: The Coming “Civilization”” (Yassine Atana); “Featured Books” (Omran Editorial Board).

Published: 2026-04-01

Studies

  • Post-Independence Algerian Protest Movements: Rupture and Continuity

    Author: Nacer Djabi (Author)
    7-36

    This study examines the trajectories of rupture and continuity in Algerian protest movements, from the demonstrations of the mid-1980s to the Hirak movement of February 2019. It adopts a...

  • The University as a Field of Struggle: Student Protests in Tunisia and Egypt (1968-1973)

    Author: Adnan ElAmine (Author)
    37-63

    This article examines student protests in Tunisia and Egypt between 1968 and 1973. These include two uprisings in Tunisia and four in Egypt, which functioned more like waves within a single...

  • Awareness of Otherness between Religion and Utility: Moroccans’ Representations of Sub-Saharan African Migrants

    Author: Aziz Mechouat, Mehdi Jaafar (Author)
    65-93

    This article examines how religious affiliation informs the construction of social representations of “otherness” among a sample of Moroccans in relation to Sub-Saharan African migrants in...

  • When the Sociologist Wears the Historian’s Cloak: Uses of History in Khaldoun Al-Naqeeb’s Analysis of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Societies

    Author: Abdulrahman Alebrahim (Author)
    95-126

    This study examines the uses of history in Khaldoun Al-Naqeeb’s study of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula societies by examining his writings through a historian’s lens. It does not treat this use as...

  • War by Another Means: The Impasse of Gaza’s Reconstruction After Genocide

    Author: Wadee Alarabeed (Author)
    127-151

    This study examines the trajectory of reconstruction in Gaza as a process unfolding within a structure of de-development, understood here as a form of settler-colonial governance aimed at...

Discussions

  • The Teacher in New Sociologies of Education

    Author: Mohammed El Idrissi (Author)
    155-174

    The emergence of new sociologies in the field of education has marked a significant epistemological turning point in the historical development of approaches to the dialectical relationship...

Translation

  • The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco

    Author: Clifford Geertz (Author)
    177-194

    The comparative perspective is of central importance to effective analysis in human ecology. The present paper compares "traditional" irrigation systems in two quite disparate settings: east...

Book Reviews

  • Current Ecological Trends: An Exercise in Classification and Typology

    Author: Mohamed Hilal Elhassani (Author)
    197-205

    Book Title : Current Ecological Trends: An Exercise in Classification and Typology . Author : Khalid Chahbar. Publisher : Rabat: Dar Al Qalam. Date of Publication : 2024. Pages : 192.

  • Homo Numericus: The Coming “Civilization”

    Author: Yassine Atana (Author)
    207-212

    Book Title : Homo numericus: La “civilization” qui vient . Author : Daniel Cohen. Translation : Ali Youssef Asaad. Publisher : Jubail: Page Seven Publishings.​ Date of Publication : 2022. Pages...

Book Presentations

  • Featured Books

    Author: Omran Editorial Board (Author)
    215-219

    Book previews prepared by the Editorial Board: - Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man , Shawky Douaihy (trans.) (Doha/Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2025), 512 pp. -...

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