Vol. 13 No. 049 (2024): Issue 049

غلاف العدد 49 من دورية عمران

Issue 49 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Imagining Economic Liberation in Palestine: Challenges and Opportunities” (Leila Farsakh); “The Political Economy of Smuggling: Trade in the West Bank Under the Israeli Border Regime” (Walid Habbas); “Identity, Anxiety, and War: Hezbollah and the Gaza Tragedy” (Adham Saouli); “Women Social Workers Working in Lebanon's Syrian Refugee Context: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms in a Multilayered Crisis” (Rania Mansour); “Mapping the Literary: A Spatial Reading of Hilal Chouman’s Kana Ghadan” (Farah Z. Aridi); “Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment” (Robert D. Benford, David A. Snow); “Rural Morocco: A Socio-Anthropological Dictionary” (Faouzi Boukhriss, Malika Mouhti); “Rooted Outsiders, Intersubjective Reflexivity: Towards an Anthropology of Hospitality” (Mohamed Oubella).

Published: 2024-07-01

Studies

  • Imagining Economic Liberation in Palestine: Challenges and Opportunities Cited once

    Author: Leila Farsakh (Author)
    7-34

    This study explores the meaning of Palestinian economic liberation and the means to achieve it moving forward. It argues that a liberated Palestine is achieved by decolonizing the economic...

  • The Political Economy of Smuggling: Trade in the West Bank Under the Israeli Border Regime

    Author: Walid Habbas (Author)
    35-55

    This study examines the West Bank’s economic dependency on Israel under the Israeli border regime. This regime is manifested in the separation barrier, the division of Palestinian lands into...

  • Identity, Anxiety, and War: Hezbollah and the Gaza Tragedy

    Author: Adham Saouli (Author)
    57-77

    This study explores Hezbollah’s puzzling engagement in Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza. Why has it limited its war to the Lebanese-Israeli border area? Why did not it engage in a...

  • Women Social Workers Working in Lebanon's Syrian Refugee Context: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms in a Multilayered Crisis

    Author: Rania Mansour (Author)
    79-105

    Lebanon has experienced a multi-layered crisis that has repercussions on the psychosocial well-being of the population, which has implications for social work. What challenges do women social...

  • Mapping the Literary: A Spatial Reading of Hilal Chouman’s Kana Ghadan

    Author: Farah Z. Aridi (Author)
    107-133

    This paper highlights the significance of space as a narrational component capable of opening the text onto various possibilities. As such, the text here is treated as a critical roadmap, able...

Translation

  • Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment

    Author: Robert D. Benford, David A. Snow (Author)
    137-175

    The recent proliferation of scholarship on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside...

Book Reviews

  • Rural Morocco: A Socio-Anthropological Dictionary

    Author: Faouzi Boukhriss, Malika Mouhti (Author)
    179-186

    Book Title : Le Maroc rural: Dictionnaire Socio-Anthropologique . Author : Hassan Rachik. Publisher : Casablanca: La Croisée Des Chemins. Date of Publication : 2023. Pages : 490.

  • Rooted Outsiders, Intersubjective Reflexivity: Towards an Anthropology of Hospitality

    Author: Mohamed Oubella (Author)
    187-195

    Book Title : Rooted Outsiders, Intersubjective Reflexivity: Towards an Anthropology of Hospitality . Author : Othmane Leguachmi. Publisher : Casablanca: Afrique Orient. Date of Publication :...