Vol. 4 No. 013 (2015): Issue 013

غلاف العدد 13 من دورية عمران

Issue 13 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2015) includes the following studies and articles: “The Relationship between University Education and Democracy in the Arab World” (Amer Mahdi Doko); “A Proposed Framework for the Application of a Human Resources Management Strategy to Achieve Research Excellence in Palestin” (Nidal al-Masri, Mohammed al-Agha); “The Path to World-Class Research Universities: A Comprehensive Study of Arab Universities” (Allam Mohammed Mousa Hamdan); “The Trade Union Movement of Tunisian University Teachers” (Mounir Saidani); “The Lebanese Environment Movement and Changes to Cultural Orientations: The Case of North Lebanon” (Emile Maroun); “The Social Order of War in Pre-Colonial Baidhani Society: A Historical Anthropological Reading” (Abdul Hamid Fayez); “How Does the West Look at the Arab Gulf Countries?” (Morad Diani); “The Problem of Economic Disparities in ‘New Capital’” (Fatiha Al Hassani); “Book review:” (Sophie Richter-Devroe).

Published: 2015-07-01
Issue totals:179 views241 downloads4 citations

Studies

  • The Relationship between University Education and Democracy in the Arab World 21 views28 downloads

    Author: Amer Mahdi Doko
    7-29

    This study uses the database of the Arab Barometer Survey to investigate the relationship between university education and support for democracy in the following 10 Arab states: Algeria, Egypt,...

  • A Proposed Framework for the Application of a Human Resources Management Strategy to Achieve Research Excellence in Palestin 20 views30 downloads Cited once

    Authors: Nidal al-Masri, Mohammed al-Agha
    31-64

    The authors here present a proposed framework for the application of a strategy to manage human talent toward achieving research excellence in Palestinian universities in light of knowledge...

  • The Path to World-Class Research Universities: A Comprehensive Study of Arab Universities 20 views24 downloads

    Author: Allam Mohammed Mousa Hamdan
    65-104

    The higher education system in the Arab world has expanded, and along with it the challenges facing Arab universities have increased. These are apparent in the gap between the outcomes of higher...

  • The Trade Union Movement of Tunisian University Teachers 18 views31 downloads Cited once

    Author: Mounir Saidani
    105-132

    In his study, al-Saidani starts with the rise of mass popularity of Tunisia’s public university, its excessive centralism, and the stages of its structural changes to consider the problems of...

  • The Lebanese Environment Movement and Changes to Cultural Orientations: The Case of North Lebanon 21 views20 downloads Cited once

    Author: Emile Maroun
    133-162

    Environmental movements, like other contemporary social movements, are one of the main pressure groups that have contributed and continue to contribute to the change to cultural orientations...

  • The Social Order of War in Pre-Colonial Baidhani Society: A Historical Anthropological Reading 20 views28 downloads Cited once

    Author: Abdul Hamid Fayez
    163-186

    This study examines the social nature of war and the interrelated structures underpinning the phenomenon of war. Three gateways are used by the author: (a) wartime, (b) the mechanisms generating...

Book Reviews

  • How Does the West Look at the Arab Gulf Countries? 20 views26 downloads

    Author: Morad Diani
    189-192

    Book Title: Les pays du Golfe, de la perle à l’économie de la connaissance: les nouvelles terres du libéralisme Author: Caroline Piquet Place of publication: Paris Publisher: Armand Colin Date...

  • The Problem of Economic Disparities in ‘New Capital’ 19 views28 downloads

    Author: Fatiha Al Hassani
    193-196

    Book Title: Capital in the Twenty-First Century Author: Thomas Piketty Place of publication: Cambridge MA and London Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Date of publication:...

Book Presentations

  • Book review: 20 views26 downloads

    Author: Sophie Richter-Devroe
    197-201

    Book Title: Palestinian Refugees: Identity, Space and Place in the Levant Editors: Are Knudsen and Sari Hanafi Place of publication: US and Canada Publisher: Routledge Date of publication: 2011...