Vol. 4 No. 016 (2016): Issue 016

غلاف العدد 16 من دورية عمران

Issue 16 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2016) includes the following studies and articles: “The Crisis of Modernization and Urban Planning in Algeria: Roots, Reality and Prospects” (Maaouia Saidouni); “The Modern Arab City A Socio-Linguistic Reading of Symptoms of Urbanization Phenomena” (Driss Makboul); “Sociology of Suffering The Daily Life of Youth in Sfax’s Low-Income Districts” (Fouad Ghorbali); “Development of Population Size and Manpower in Gulf States in the First Decade of the 21st Century” (Nedham Abudlkareem Alshafai); “The State’s Development Tasks and Market Control via Industrial Policy” (Taher H. Kanaan); “Exclusion and Informality: The Praetorian Politics of Land Management in Cairo, Egypt” (W. J. Dorman); “The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions andReligious Counterrevolutions” (Mounir Kchaou); “Modern Social Imaginaries” (Nerouz Satik); “L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le symbolique”.

Published: 2016-04-01
Issue totals: 459 views 680 downloads 8 citations

Studies

  • The State’s Development Tasks and Market Control via Industrial Policy

    37 views 63 downloads
    Author: Taher H. Kanaan
    131-154

    Kanaan reviews the vision that economic theory offers for the role of the state, whereby sustainable development defines the goals of economic policy. His paper shows how both the views of...

Issue Focus

  • The Crisis of Modernization and Urban Planning in Algeria: Roots, Reality and Prospects

    Cited twice 57 views 74 downloads
    Author: Maaouia Saidouni
    7-46

    This study takes up the history of modernization and urban planning in Algeria. Through description and analysis, it assesses the clash between the country’s historic, architectural, and built...

  • The Modern Arab City A Socio-Linguistic Reading of Symptoms of Urbanization Phenomena

    Cited once 50 views 56 downloads
    Author: Driss Makboul
    47-76

    Maqboul examines the interactive correlation between man, the built environment, and language. His paper begins with the hypothesis that symptoms of ‘diseased urbanization’, such as the absence...

  • Sociology of Suffering The Daily Life of Youth in Sfax’s Low-Income Districts

    Cited 4 times 37 views 65 downloads
    Author: Fouad Ghorbali
    77-102

    Based on field research undertaken in the al-‘Aqaribah neighborhood of Sfax, this study attempts to provide a sociological understanding of the day-to-day life of Tunisian youth in "popular" or...

  • Development of Population Size and Manpower in Gulf States in the First Decade of the 21st Century

    Cited once 36 views 59 downloads
    Author: Nedham Abudlkareem Alshafai
    103-128

    The economy and demography of the Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are bound together by petroleum. Each is still registering great demographic growth, both in comparison with...

Translation

  • Exclusion and Informality: The Praetorian Politics of Land Management in Cairo, Egypt

    57 views 55 downloads
    Author: W. J. Dorman
    157-202

    Since the late 1970s, Western aid agencies, including the US Agency for International Development (AID) and the World Bank, sought to assist the Egyptian government in planning its capital,...

Book Reviews

  • The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions andReligious Counterrevolutions

    39 views 65 downloads
    Author: Mounir Kchaou
    205-222

    In his book, Michael Walzer addresses a fundamental question: whyhave secular, modernizing, national liberation revolutions in Algeria, Israel,and India given rise to religious...

Reports

  • تقرير عن الندوة الدولية حول

    36 views 58 downloads
    Author: محمد الادريسي
    233-239

    على مدى يومين كاملين (25 -26 تشرين الثاني/ نوفمبر 2015)، عقدت الكلية المتعددة الـتـخـصـصـات فـي الـنـاظـور، بشراكة مع المجلس العلمي المحلي لمدينة الناظور وجـامـعـة محمد الأول في وجدة والرابطة...

  • تقرير حول المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية:

    34 views 65 downloads
    Author: كمال طيرشي
    241-246

    عقد المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات في الدوحة المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية (2015 - 2016) خلال الـفـتـرة 12 - 14 آذار/ مـارس 2016. وجرى توحيد موضوعَي المؤتمر مع...

Book Presentations

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    43 views 56 downloads
    Author: Nerouz Satik
    223-225

    Author: Charles Taylor Translator: al-Hareth al-Nabhan Place of publication: Doha/Beirut Publisher: ACRPS Date of publication: 2015 Number of pages: 254

  • L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le symbolique

    33 views 64 downloads
    Author: مولدي الأحمر
    227-230

    Book Title: L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le Symbolique Author: Maurice Godelier Publisher: CNRS Editions Date of publication: 2015 Number of pages: 286