Vol. 10 No. 040 (2022): Issue 040

غلاف العدد 40 من دورية عمران

Issue 40 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2022) includes the following studies and articles: “Regime Elite Turnover in the Waning Syrian Civil War (2016-2021): A Socio-Economic Approach” (Ammar Shamaileh, Alan Aloskan, Mohammed Zahr); “Ethnography of the Political Behaviour of Idlib's Agricultural Boundaries in the 2011 Uprising” (Nerouz Satik); “Life and Death in Times of War: Comparative Analysis of Birth and Mortality Rates in the Latakia Governorate, Syria” (Mada Shuraiki); “Subjects in Contested Spaces: Securitisation of Kurdish Langauge in Syria” (Yunus Abakay); “The Fragmented Identity: Comprehension of Kurdish Political Identity Construction” (Seevan Saeed); “Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance” (Michelle D. Weitzel); “A Comparative Reading of Authoritarian Apprehensions and The Rule of Violence” (Chris Hitchcock); “Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State” (Rama Sahtout); “State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns” (Sinan Hawat); “Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia” (Mouldi Lahmar).

Published: 2022-04-01

Studies

  • The Fragmented Identity: Comprehension of Kurdish Political Identity Construction

    Author: Seevan Saeed (Author)
    121-134

    This paper is an attempt to re-conceptualise the notion of Kurdishness through classifying the Kurdish struggle into two different political identities; “traditional" and “new”. Each of the two...

Issue Focus

  • Regime Elite Turnover in the Waning Syrian Civil War (2016-2021): A Socio-Economic Approach

    Author: Ammar Shamaileh, Alan Aloskan, Mohammed Zahr (Author)
    11-34

    This article analyses changes that occurred to the landscape of the political and economic elites during the Syrian Civil War and focuses in particular on transformations that ensued once the...

  • Ethnography of the Political Behaviour of Idlib's Agricultural Boundaries in the 2011 Uprising

    Author: Nerouz Satik (Author)
    35-59

    This paper studies the interaction of the local agricultural community on boundaries of the Idlib Governorate, Syria, with the protest movement during the 2011 uprising. The research is based on...

  • Life and Death in Times of War: Comparative Analysis of Birth and Mortality Rates in the Latakia Governorate, Syria

    Author: Mada Shuraiki (Author)
    61-96

    Since 2011, Syria has undergone fundamental changes in the demographic structure of the population and affected the societal structure in which this demographic structure is built. This study...

  • Subjects in Contested Spaces: Securitisation of Kurdish Langauge in Syria

    Author: Yunus Abakay (Author)
    117-97

    As Kurdish identity was perceived as a security issue by the state in Syria, governments took measures against the use and perceptibility of Kurdish language and manifestation of the identity,...

Translation

  • Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance

    Author: Michelle D. Weitzel (Author)
    137-172

    Affect was an essential component of the Arab uprisings, and it remains an important medium for shaping everyday politics in the Middle East and beyond. Yet while affect is beginning to be...

Book Reviews

  • A Comparative Reading of Authoritarian Apprehensions and The Rule of Violence

    Author: Chris Hitchcock (Author)
    175-184

    Title of the first book : Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgement and Mourning in Syria . Author : Lisa Wedeen. Publisher : Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Date of Publication...

  • Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

    Author: Rama Sahtout (Author)
    185-194

    Book title : Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State . Author : Dawn Chatty. Publisher : Oxford: Oxford University Press. Date of Publication : 2017. Pages : 269.

  • State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns

    Author: Sinan Hawat (Author)
    195-201

    Book title : State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns . Author : Haian Dukhan. Publisher : London: Routledge. Date of Publication : 2018. Pages : 174.

  • Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia

    Author: Mouldi Lahmar (Author)
    203-212

    Book title : Understanding Revolutions: Opening Acts in Tunisia . Author : Azmi Bishara. Publisher : London: I.B. Tauris. Date of Publication : 2021. Pages : 328.