Vol. 9 No. 034 (2020): Issue 034

غلاف العدد 34 من دورية عمران

Issue 34 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2020) includes the following studies and articles: “Women in Lebanese Judiciary: Added Value or More of the Same?” (Azza Elhajj Sleiman, Azza Charara Baydoun); “Women’s Rights under Algerian Political Reform: Between Demands for Personal Rights and Accordance with Religious Authority” (Belkacem Benzenine); “Shanty Town Youth in Morocco: Discrimination, Stigmatization, and Resistance Strategies (A Case Study of the «Duwar al–Sehd» in Temara City)” (Yassine Yassni); “Production of the Marginalised in the British Labor Market: A Study of the Intersections of Religious and Ethnic Identity” (Nabil Khattab); “The Long–term Unemployment as a Normative Construction: Forms and Mechanisms of Resistance (A Sociological Approach to the Case of Meknes)” (Bouchra Jeouni); “Participant Objectivation” (Pierre Bourdieu); “Capital and Ideology” (Abdelhamid Abidi); “Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat” (Maryam Hawari).

Published: 2020-10-01

Studies

  • Women in Lebanese Judiciary: Added Value or More of the Same?

    Author: Azza Elhajj Sleiman, Azza Charara Baydoun (Author)
    7-29

    This article seeks to understand the added value represented by the performance of female judges in the Lebanese judiciary, as compared to males, in light of the results of the United Nations...

  • Women’s Rights under Algerian Political Reform: Between Demands for Personal Rights and Accordance with Religious Authority

    Author: Belkacem Benzenine (Author)
    31-53

    This study examines the issue of Algerian women’s rights within the system of political reform that the country has seen since independence. These rights have been governed in part by the...

  • Shanty Town Youth in Morocco: Discrimination, Stigmatization, and Resistance Strategies (A Case Study of the «Duwar al–Sehd» in Temara City) Cited once

    Author: Yassine Yassni (Author)
    55-80

    This paper aims to highlight the processes that produce spatial stigma in a poor neighborhood in Morocco, focusing on how spatial differences between a "shanty town" and other neighborhoods are...

  • Production of the Marginalised in the British Labor Market: A Study of the Intersections of Religious and Ethnic Identity

    Author: Nabil Khattab (Author)
    81-103

    This study examines the extent to which it was possible for individuals belonging to different ethnic–religious groups in Britain to obtain managerial and professional jobs of standing over the...

  • The Long–term Unemployment as a Normative Construction: Forms and Mechanisms of Resistance (A Sociological Approach to the Case of Meknes)

    Author: Bouchra Jeouni (Author)
    105-135

    This paper aims to achieve three basic objectives related to the long–term employment. Firstly, to diagnose characteristics of normative construction of long–term unemployment. Secondly, to...

Translation

  • Participant Objectivation

    Author: Pierre Bourdieu (Author)
    139-154

    On December 6, 2000, the Royal Institute of Anthropology in London celebrated the great French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and awarded him the famous Huxley Medal. On this occasion Bourdieu gave...

Book Reviews

  • Capital and Ideology

    Author: Abdelhamid Abidi (Author)
    157-167

    French political economist Thomas Piketty’s book examines the issue of inequality and how, across history, human societies seek to justify it through the construction of ideological systems.

  • Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat

    Author: Maryam Hawari (Author)
    169-176

    Book Title: Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat. Author: Ayelet Harel-Shalev & Shir Daphna-Tekoah. Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press....