Vol. 11 No. 042 (2022): Issue 042

غلاف العدد 42 من دورية عمران

Issue 42 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2022) includes the following studies and articles: “Introduction: Sports and Society” (Mouldi Lahmar); “Sport and Politics in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Political Awareness, Institutionalisation, and Resistive Adaptation (1967-1995)” (Ibrahim S. Rabaia); “Ultras Groups in Tunisia: The Intersections of Sports, Politics and Religion” (Kais Triaa); “Female Professional Athletes in Morocco: Confronting Gender Stereotypes” (Chaimae El Ghazi); “Ultras as a Youth Social Movement: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Moroccan Football Ultras” (Mohammed El Hadifi, Azzeddine Elfaraa); “Ultras’ Graffiti and Constructing Fan Identity: A Study of Symbolic Appropriation of Space” (Wadia Jehouani, Aissa El Ghayyati); “The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem” (Norbert Elias); “The World Cup as World History” (Osaid Yousef); “Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport” (Hamideh Dorzadeh); “Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture” (Omar Hassan).

Published: 2022-10-01
Issue totals: 400 views 692 downloads 3 citations

Studies

  • Sport and Politics in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Political Awareness, Institutionalisation, and Resistive Adaptation (1967-1995)

    34 views 67 downloads
    Author: Ibrahim S. Rabaia
    13-42

    This study investigates the political position and role of the Palestinian sporting institution in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, exploring its interactions in confrontation with the...

  • Ultras Groups in Tunisia: The Intersections of Sports, Politics and Religion

    39 views 75 downloads
    Author: Kais Triaa
    43-72

    This paper examines the practices of ultras groups in Tunisia through sports, politics, and religion. It traces the extensions of their identities and their mutual social influences. The paper...

  • Female Professional Athletes in Morocco: Confronting Gender Stereotypes

    36 views 65 downloads
    Author: Chaimae El Ghazi
    73-95

    This work argues that the physical experience of an athletic woman is shaped by the arduous labours of her gender identity construction. Furthermore, the features of this experience are created...

  • Ultras as a Youth Social Movement: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Moroccan Football Ultras

    58 views 67 downloads
    Authors: Mohammed El Hadifi, Azzeddine Elfaraa
    97-130

    This paper contributes to the critical discourse analysis of Moroccan football ultras movements, whose presence has increased inside and outside the sports stadiums. These groups combine support...

  • Ultras’ Graffiti and Constructing Fan Identity: A Study of Symbolic Appropriation of Space

    53 views 76 downloads
    Authors: Wadia Jehouani, Aissa El Ghayyati
    131-156

    Ultras, by nature, push the football team off the field and into the public sphere. This study focuses on the ultras’ activities outside the stadium, using an ethnographic approach to understand...

Issue Focus

  • Introduction: Sports and Society

    29 views 66 downloads
    Author: Mouldi Lahmar
    7-10

    لا يخفى على القارئ أن هذا الاهتمام الذي تبديه دورية عمران في هذا العدد بالظاهرة الرياضية قد حدده سياق إقامة كأس العالم 2022 في قطر، لكن الباحثين الذين كتبوا في هذا العدد درسوا الظاهرة باستقلال...

Translation

  • The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem

    Cited 3 times 35 views 76 downloads
    Author: Norbert Elias
    159-182

    This study examines the physical and verbal genesis of sports in England and compares the conditions under which game–contests emerged in classical antiquity and in the nineteenth and twentieth...

Book Reviews

  • The World Cup as World History

    32 views 66 downloads
    Author: Osaid Yousef
    185-191

    Book title: The World Cup as World History . Author: William D. Bowman. Publisher: Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Date of Publication: 2020. Pages: 218.

  • Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

    41 views 66 downloads
    Author: Hamideh Dorzadeh
    193-199

    Sonja Erikainen’s groundbreaking claim is that the whole idea and organisation of sport based on sex differences needs to be questioned for the sake of empowering women in sports.

  • Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture

    43 views 68 downloads
    Author: Omar Hassan
    201-208

    Book title: Cairo’s Ultras: Resistance and Revolution in Egypt’s Football Culture . Author: Ronnie Close. Publisher: Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. Date of Publication: 2019....